Comments on: Slabapalooza! http://www.roadsideamerica.com/blog/slabapalooza/ Road trip news, rants, and ruminations by the Editors of RoadsideAmerica.com Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:05:45 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Lisa Teet http://www.roadsideamerica.com/blog/slabapalooza/comment-page-1/#comment-80 Lisa Teet Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:04:57 +0000 http://www.roadsideamerica.com/blog/?p=101#comment-80 I recently met a couple living south of San Francisco who have a slab of the golden gate bridge in their driveway. It serves as a bridge over a massive drainage ditch between the road and their home. The slab was found at a salvage yard, and it was supposedly removed due to earthquake damage. They left the lane markers in place as proof of its origin. I recently met a couple living south of San Francisco who have a slab of the golden gate bridge in their driveway. It serves as a bridge over a massive drainage ditch between the road and their home. The slab was found at a salvage yard, and it was supposedly removed due to earthquake damage. They left the lane markers in place as proof of its origin.

]]> By: Doug at RoadsideAmerica.com http://www.roadsideamerica.com/blog/slabapalooza/comment-page-1/#comment-43 Doug at RoadsideAmerica.com Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:23:48 +0000 http://www.roadsideamerica.com/blog/?p=101#comment-43 We second that plug for the documentary "Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea" (available on DVD). Fun interviews, a good chronicle of the Salton Sea history, and plenty of picturesque, briny wanderings. After watching it, you've feel like you've been living there for decades! We second that plug for the documentary “Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea” (available on DVD). Fun interviews, a good chronicle of the Salton Sea history, and plenty of picturesque, briny wanderings. After watching it, you’ve feel like you’ve been living there for decades!

]]> By: Glinda Wyndorf http://www.roadsideamerica.com/blog/slabapalooza/comment-page-1/#comment-40 Glinda Wyndorf Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:00:32 +0000 http://www.roadsideamerica.com/blog/?p=101#comment-40 May I recommend the wonderful documentary "Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea": http://www.saltonseadoc.com/ It's an entertaining and informative in-depth visit to Slab City and its surrounding communities of eccentrics, visionaries and regular folks just hangin' on to a dream. Excellent, excellent film. May I recommend the wonderful documentary “Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea”:

http://www.saltonseadoc.com/

It’s an entertaining and informative in-depth visit to Slab City and its surrounding communities of eccentrics, visionaries and regular folks just hangin’ on to a dream. Excellent, excellent film.

]]> By: Greg Brown http://www.roadsideamerica.com/blog/slabapalooza/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Greg Brown Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:51:44 +0000 http://www.roadsideamerica.com/blog/?p=101#comment-7 Funny you should mention slabs, especially "The Slabs" where Salvation Mountain is located. I was just now watching the fantastic movie Into the Wild which features location shots of The Slabs, Salvation Mount and Leonard Knight! Perhaps the museums are simply, like everyone it seems, short on cash so they are displaying slabs of road. At least they can get some environmental kudos for not allowing this material to hit the local landfill! Funny you should mention slabs, especially “The Slabs” where Salvation Mountain is located. I was just now watching the fantastic movie Into the Wild which features location shots of The Slabs, Salvation Mount and Leonard Knight! Perhaps the museums are simply, like everyone it seems, short on cash so they are displaying slabs of road. At least they can get some environmental kudos for not allowing this material to hit the local landfill!

]]> By: Mac Adams http://www.roadsideamerica.com/blog/slabapalooza/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Mac Adams Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:32:01 +0000 http://www.roadsideamerica.com/blog/?p=101#comment-6 Slabs rule! Don't be so quick to dismiss them. 100,000 years from now they could be all that's left for future peoples to understand us!!! Slabs rule! Don’t be so quick to dismiss them. 100,000 years from now they could be all that’s left for future peoples to understand us!!!

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