Contest #49
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How to Play
To participate, just make your guess in the comments section for each photo. Guesses will be held until the end of the contest, when they will all be made public. Anything and everything is fair game for getting a correct answer. Each contest will last one week, starting on Friday, so submit your guess as soon as you have an idea.
A mapped out development of roads in the desert just to the north at the very edge of the photograph is the Silver saddle Ranch and Club. All the streets have names its not far from California City USA. Mojave desert.
Comment by Ewen | August 14, 2008
Located in the desert, just northeast of California City, CA - at about 35 12′N 117 46′W.
Comment by ACG | August 14, 2008
California City, CA, US
Comment by Willem | August 14, 2008
California City, California
It looked like a massive development project that either a) never happened or b) was in progress. I figured there were only a few places that are arid like the picture and would attempt such a large urban project in the middle of nowhere.
- First I checked around the middle east oil states
- Then I checked Israel, thinking maybe it was a huge settlement that never happened.
Finally I checked the southwest and eventually found California City. I live in CA but I’ve never been here; I kind of want to go check it out some time!
Comment by David S | August 14, 2008
California City, CA in the Mojave Desert. Whooot!
Comment by Keith M | August 14, 2008
It’s Pan…this is California City, California. Part of Nat Mendelson’s failed project from the late 1950’s to develop a city of the future.
Comment by Pan | August 14, 2008
California City, a master planned community in the Mojave desert… that just didn’t take off.
This shot is at least part of the planned neighborhood layout.
Cheers,
-Skip
Comment by Skip (Austin, TX) | August 15, 2008
This is part of California City, California: a failed attempt to create a city in the desert, the roads were laid out ambitiously, but the houses just weren’t built. Attempted development is still ongoing, but the housing crisis is not helping..!
How did I find it? I guessed it was some kind of failed housing development (roads but no houses), and that it was in the USA (the grid layout) and the Southwest (the terrain). After examining known housing crisis blackspots in Arizona and Nevada, I eventually found this through a web search. Not easy, and I wish the picture had been larger, because this one shows very little detail.
Comment by brian t | August 15, 2008
California City, CA, just south of Galileo Park (which is just visible at the top).
Comment by RDaneel | August 15, 2008
California City
Comment by PK | August 15, 2008
California City, north of Edwards Air Force Base, California
Comment by Milosh, Serbia | August 15, 2008