Hesperia, California - Miles Mahan's Half Acre (Hulaville) - Gone

Hesperia, California - Miles Mahan's Half Acre (Hulaville) - Gone

A stop on Roadside America's 7-day Los Angeles to New York Hypertour. An outdoor folk environment, before it closed and blew away. Roadsideamerica.com Report...

Hesperia, California - Mahan's Half Acre - Gone

Here's a photo of Miles Mahan, a sunburnt folk art fixture on the shoulder of I-15 until his demise in the late 1990s.

After Mahan passed on, his attraction was taken apart. The Route 66 Museum in Victorville is the new home of the Hula Girl, now a precious cultural artifact. The Museum include other Mahan items, and exhibits a scale miniature version of the Mahan's Half Acre. [RoadsideAmerica.com Team, 04/20/1997]

Hesperia, California - Mahan's Half Acre

Miles Mahan and his beloved Hula Girl have been separated -- he in a convalescent home, she in storage. The crude hand-lettered sign beneath her read: "People travel through the state, how little will they know her fate, for traveler who'll ever be the wiser, her life was saved by the Supervisors." [Roadsideamerica.com, 04/20/1997]

[RA: The squatter's jumble known as Mahan's Half Acre has been quietly scraped off the high desert along I-15, as witnessed on a recent drive-by on our way to Exotic World. A self-storage facility sits where once the seldom sober poet would regale all with his sunbaked tales of guessing people's weight back in the twenties (when posh gambling ships were docked in the waters off Los Angeles). Our last visit was on a hypertour in 1994. ]