Post #420466 by TIKIBOSKO on Sun, Nov 23, 2008 12:40 PM

Hello everyone, the Salton Sea used to be one of our favorite places in America to visit. The sea is beautiful (to look at) but terribly polluted, hundreds of types of migrating birds stop there, billions of dead fish line the shores. Amazing mid century architecture but most of it bombed out like a war zone it was an amazingly surreal combination of elements.
Sven thanks for posting the forgotten prisoner, for years I had assumed that they tore the Tiki down when the place became a “sea food” restaurant. It went out of business the Tiki re-appeared and I was left wondering was I loosing my mind, had it been there all along and I kept missing it or did they put it back up? As of yesterday the Tiki is still there bullet holes and all, the banner on the place says open for business but I really doubt that. You are correct Sven most of the great buildings have been torn down they (slowly) started cleaning up the area about 8 years ago. The shacks in the water (shown on the previous page) were finally leveled since the last time we went by, it sounds ridiculous but I felt sad to see the filthy salt covered mosquito infested structures gone.
Ironically while they have been tearing down all the meaningful abandoned architecture, they have been building thousands of stupid typical tract homes, many of which are now empty due to the economy (there is nothing out there to support huge new neighborhoods of people) now those places are getting thrashed and they look more depressing than you can imagine.

My very best alohas

Bosko