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| | | | | Buster Keaton's masterpiece Cops (1922) is one of his seven films inducted into the Library of Congress National Film Registry as a work of "enduring importance to American culture." Cops is his only independently produced film with no interior scenes. Every scene was filmed outdoors at true locations, or on the backlots of Buster's small... | |
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| | | | | NIPTON THE TOWN OF NIPTON WAS BORN ON FEBRUARY 9, 1905 WITH THE COMING OF THE FIRST TRAIN ON THE NEWLY CONSTRUCTED SAN PEDRO, LOS ANGELES AND SALT LAKE RAILROAD. ORIGINALLY CALLED NIPPENO CAMP AFTER A NEARBY GOLD DISCOVERY, THE NAME WAS CHANGED TO NIPTON WHEN THE SP, LA & SL MERGED WITH THE UNION PACIFIC CIRCA 1910. FOR MANY YEARS, THE DEPOT WAS A CATTLE-LOADING STATION FOR SEVERAL LOCAL RANCHES INCLUDING YATES RANCH, THE WALKING BOX, AND ROCK SPRINGS LAND AND CATTLE CO. THE TOWN AND DEPOT ALSO SUPPLIED NUMEROUS MINES IN THE AREA, BECOMING A SOCIAL CENTER FOR THE SPARSE POPULATION OF THE REGION. COMMUNITY FACILITIES INCLUDED A SCHOOL, POST OFFICE, VOTER PRECINCT, AND SEVERAL SMALL BUSINESSES. BEGUN AS A 20TH CENTURY RAILROAD DEPOT, NIPTON IS RE-FORMING INTO A 21ST CENTURY GATEWAY TO THE MOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE. Plaque placed October 10, 1999 by Billy Holcomb Chapter and Queho Posse of the Ancient and Honorable Order of E Clampus Vitus.. | |
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| | | | | There are some Los Angeles historic landmarks that were spared by the Palisades and Eaton Fires and survived. Here are the ones I know about so far. | |
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