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5 unusual facts about Barstow


Arizona and California Railroad

In 1914, the California Southern Railroad (not to be confused with the earlier railroad linking Barstow and San Diego) was incorporated to build 42.2 miles from a point known as Blythe Junction (Rice) to reach Blythe via a passage between the Big Maria Mountains and the Little Maria Mountains.

Cheryl Barnes

Her later scene in the desert outside the army base was filmed in Barstow, California where she remained.

Jenny Cho

The following year, she was cast for a Honda Accord television commercial, filmed in Barstow, California in addition to Honda's Print Ad, filmed on set in Los Angeles.

Oklahoma City Crosstown Expressway

Constructed nearly fifty years ago, Interstate 40 (I-40) stretches from Wilmington, North Carolina to Barstow, California.

Raquel Beezley

Raquel Roxanne Beezley (born 2 October 1986) is a beauty queen from Barstow, California who has competed in the Miss USA 2008 pageant.


Angry young men

In the song "Where Are They Now", on the 1973 album Preservation Act 1 by The Kinks, the following lines appear: "Where have all the angry young men gone?/ Barstow and Osborne, Waterhouse and Sillitoe/ Where on earth did they all go?"

Barstow Freeway

The Barstow Freeway is one of the named principle Southern California freeways.

CACTUS

CACTUS (Converted Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope Using Solar-2) was a ground based Air Cherenkov Telescope (ACT) located outside Daggett, California, near Barstow.

Dance radio

Interestingly enough, KRXV-KHWY-KHYZ/Barstow-Mountain Pass, California, which also serves Las Vegas, dropped their Hot AC format to relaunch KVBE's former Dance format and adopts its former "Vibe" moniker the following September.

Gamaliel H. Barstow

Elected as an Anti-Mason to the 22nd United States Congress, Barstow was U. S. Representative for the twenty-fifth district of New York from March 4, 1831, to March 3, 1833.

Gideon Barstow

Barstow was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Seventeenth Congress (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1823), but was not a candidate for renomination in 1822.

Harper Lake

The lake is accessible from Harper Lake Road, which runs north off of State Route 58 midway between Boron and Barstow.

Jonathan Rennert

('A force to be reckoned with', opined the reviewer in 'Music & Musicians'.) He studied at the Royal College of Music under Richard Popplewell, John Barstow and William Lloyd Webber, and at Cambridge (where he was organ scholar of St John's College) under George Guest and Gillian Weir.

K02RB-D

On May 6, 2009, the station was switched to an analog translator of KHIZ-DT 44 in Barstow, California.

KXRD

KXRD also broadcasts its programming over the following translators: K204DR (88.7 FM) Laveen, Arizona, K218CO (91.5 FM) Klamath Falls, Oregon, K219KN (91.7 FM) Barstow, California, and K230AO (93.9 FM) Barstow, California.

Lerici

Orczy and her husband Montague Barstow spent several months there in the 1930s – alternating between La Padula, Villa Bijou in Monte Carlo, and trips to Britain.

Michael Pelkey

On 24 July 1966 Pelkey and Brian Schubert, two 26-year-old skydivers from Barstow, California, made the first parachute jumps from the top of the El Capitan mountain in Yosemite National Park.

Patricia McPherson

She is most well known for her role in the 1980s hit TV series Knight Rider as Bonnie Barstow, KITT's mechanic.

William Barstow Strong

The city of Barstow, California, where the ATSF maintained extensive shop and equipment construction and repair facilities, the town of Strong City, Kansas, and Stronghurst, Illinois are named in his honor.

WXL36

Hourly weather observations covers conditions for Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, Nellis Air Force Base, Desert Rock, Reno, Barstow, California and Needles, California.


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