Salton City, California

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Salton City is a census-designated place (CDP) in Imperial County, California, United States. The population was 978 at the 2000 census. It is part of the 'El Centro, California Metropolitan Statistical Area'. Although maps (such as those seen at Google Maps at first glance show Salton City to be a sizable community, in fact very few of the surveyed streets and roads were ever developed. The town was developed in the 1950s as a resort community on the Salton Sea, but as the salinity of the already highly polluted sea rose, very little development took place and much of what was built - including the city's marina - was abandoned.

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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salton_City,_California
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Coordinates:   33°18'35"N   115°57'4"W

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  • very strange townfolk here. search salton city on youtube.
  • My god. Then there's these poor bastards... Nice people, but there's something not quite right about them...
  • Interesting place, I hope it starts to prosper, and I hope they can find a solution to the salinity problem.
  • 80% of the lots zoned for this "city" (really a vacation town) never got built. So there's whole neighborhoods with culdesacs and streets and vacant lots without even a foundation. Of the houses that WERE built, more than 1 in 3 are currently vacant. A failed 50s resort town that should have died like the rest, but has clung to life in a bizarre form of persistent vegetative state for the last half century.
  • "The Miracle in the Desert" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M__eyylXfK4. Amazing that anybody believed that stuff. Didn't they realize the "sea" was a lake that existed solely because of irrigation runoff? No stability, no sustainability, all big promises relying on a constant supply of rich people's play money.
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