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June 30, 2014
The Snow Mine
— aside from the exposed concrete foundation pads now reused as platforms for RVs, or the empty streets forming an altogether different kind of geoglyph, or even the obvious ease with which one can get there, simply following the aptly named Midland Road northeast from Blythe — is the fact that the town was built for workers at the gypsum mine, and that the gypsum extracted from the ground in Midland was then used as artificial snow in many Hollywood productions.BLDGBLOG:
Posted by gerardvanderleun at June 30, 2014 10:48 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.