Post #420307 by bigbrotiki on Sat, Nov 22, 2008 12:21 PM

Unga, Anne Rider's portrait of the Salton Tiki on the previous page is actually a pretty accurate depiction. I took the above photo of the "prisoner" about 3 or 4 years ago, supposedly since then a lot of Salton City's and the Salton Marina's wreckage has been cleaned up (unfortunately).

This is the last great building on the Salton Sea's North shore standing (IF it is still standing!?). It was designed by Swiss architect Albert Frey in 1958 as the North Shore Yacht Club:

The top housed the swank Compass Room Lounge, which once played host to Palm Springs swingers like Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.

The building is now completely gutted, and its empty shell was turned into the local senior citizen recreation center.

Albert Frey also used these space age, porthole-shaped windows in his own Palm Springs home:

Frey is hailed as the quintessential Palm Springs Modern architect.