Amboy, California

San Bernardino County

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Amboy is a small desert town in the Mojave Desert in San Bernardino County in the U.S. state of California. First settlements date back to the year 1858. About 1883 a city was established. Lewis Kingman, an agent working for the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad railroad engineer designed Amboy as the first, a number of railway stations in alphabetical order.

History

Through the National Trails Highway ( 1914) and in 1926 after the opening of Route 66, which led through Amboy, experienced a boom in the small town. Due to its remote location in the middle of the Mojave Desert Amboy was in a wide area around the only way to refuel, eat or sleep and so was an important resting place for travelers passing through. Opened in 1938, the Roy 's Cafe and Motel in Amboy. With its distinctive, built in 1959 advertising sign, it became a symbol of the " Mother Road ". To the economic success of Amboy and the Santa Fe Railroad contributed from Kingman (Arizona ) to Barstow (California ), which runs parallel to Route 66 for many miles through the desert. After the Great Depression of the early thirties and during World War II was indeed the tourism in the United States sharply, but there were enough travelers passing through who needed a rest area, a motel or a gas station. By 1940, 65 inhabitants populated the small desert town.

Amboy today

The small town lived on until it was bypassed in 1973 by the modern Interstate Highway 40. Since the travelers were almost the only source of income, accounted for in Amboy, as in many other places on the old Route 66, suddenly the most important economic base. The chlorine recovery outside the resort, as well as Roy 's Cafe and Motel, which was able to keep them under different owners, were the only sources of income.

Most residents left the city in the series. The school was founded in 1900 has been closed. The post office was preserved. With the nostalgia for the Route 66 of the Town moved back into more public view.

In 2003, attempted to auction the whole place to ebay the remaining seven inhabitants. The desired gain was not achieved. 2005 Amboy was acquired by Albert Okura, the Japanese- operators of the California restaurant chain " Juan Pollo " for 425,000 U.S. dollars. He strives claims to the preservation of the historic remains of the city.

West of Amboy Amboy Crater is the one about 10,000 -year-old, extinct volcanic cone, which consists mainly of lava rock.

Amboy as a film and photo opportunity

Due to its secluded location in the Mojave Desert, one of the prettiest parts of Route 66, but especially because of the highly visible large sign structure of Roy 's Cafe and Motel, which has become a landmark for the " Mother Road ", Amboy was to a frequently photographed image motif.

In numerous film and television productions but also in advertising clips, video clips, fashion photos, calendars Amboy forms the backdrop. So Amboy was last seen in early 2011 Part of a video about the new SLK -Class from Mercedes -Benz.

Gallery

Railroad crossing on Route 66 in Amboy

The closed school in Amboy

Chlorine and outside of Amboy