Abandoned Eagle Mountain City Drone Footage and History 4K
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- čas přidán 12. 05. 2024
- 4K drone footage I captured of Eagle Mountain last year. I added in a little bit of history in the form of a VoiceOver.
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Great work! A history lesson in under five minutes. I know other CZcamsrs would have flapped their gums for an hour and not conveyed as much information!
No point in making a 20 minute CZcams video.
Eagle Mountain was a great place to grow up. I was there from 1973 until about 1982. We still have contact with several families to this day. Small town memories from the local church to the baseball diamond, So many great memories and people, Great memories, some of my best....
That’s awesome. I love that place a lot.
I was wondering about that... as I watched! Would it have been a cool place to grow up as a kid - and thanks for telling your story! The layout looks like a huge neighborhood and I picture all these kids riding their bikes all over the place. Looks like the area would have been good for exploring.
I spent from 1961 to 1964 when I was 12 to 14 years old, at 29 Palms MCB. Those are some of my fondest memories growing up. I too imagine all the families and kids going about their lives there. So sad, all the ghosts of times past. Did you have television there? At 29 Palms we had to use uhf receivers to get programming.
Eagle Mountain was in the news about a year ago when someone bought the entire town. The speculation was that they intend to use the open pit mine for a giant landfill. Great footage. The size of the pit and the pile of waste rock is amazing. Thanks.
That’s exactly why I filmed it. Was unsure of the future of it.
Beyond stupid. Only source of high grade Iron ore in California and the MORONS are going to fill it in ... with garbage when there are literally THOUSANDS of USELESS valley's to fill in S. California with NOTHING in them...
Sad to think that a lot of places like Eagle Mountain point out how "Disposable" we allow ourselves to be or get.
Many thanx 👍👍
Wow, I drove right past this place a week ago and knew nothing about it. Thanks for sharing the great video and the story, too!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I visited the ore processing plant at Eagle Mnt myself in 1974. Looking at possible employment. I loved the desert.
Thanks for taking me on this Ride with you.
Thanks for joining.
Yes, K.P. got it's beginning here along with the Oakland shipyards.
It's just basic economics. When you have housing that only exists for one specific purpose and then that purpose no longer exists, it become a ghost town. The town I grew up in, Anderson Alaska, only existed as a bedroom community for workers at Clear Air Force Station. There are far fewer jobs there now, so Anderson is well on it's way to becoming a ghost town.
I used to live at the water plant 5 miles away and graduated 8th grade at Eagle Mountain. 94-96
Did you know the Gastons?
@@charlieshammer6129 That name sounds familiar. I remember the Gustafsons. You remember first names? My memory sux. I'd need descriptions
@@mfburns7909 Gary Gaston was at one time the pumping plant manager. Most of the people I knew lived in Eagle Mountain or lake Tamarask.
Wow. That is not that long ago. I am itching to see what life in this little town looked like before it emptied.
@@charlieshammer6129 I'm sure I knew him. I was 14 when I moved there. My dad worked at the water plant. I remember his supervisor Steve,I remember Dave Murphyand his son,I remember Don Nash. I remember my friend Jason Berg,etc
Wow, so eerie. Sad how it went from boom to bust. Time passes and leaves us behind as a ghost town.
Yep, exploitative practices are like that.
Cool video
Very nice video. Thanks for posting and have a nice day too.
It would make a cool setting for a video game
Amazing flight buddy, great footage and narration too! Lots of info, thanks for sharing! Watched liked and subbed your channel 👌👍
Subbed to you too!
Thank you for sharing 😮
Really well done video.
Enjoy the added narration.
Will do more in the future.
Very Nice!!!
With the obvious decay that occurs over a few decades, how can we possibly know what stood on our planet thousands of years ago
EXCELLENT!
Very good video!
My Dad grew up in a company town in New Mexico. His Dad came there in 1908 as they were building the town infrastructure. The market for the coal dried up, the company closed the mines and town after 42 years. Everyone had 30 days to move out. Inside of a year, there were 50% of the houses moved out. The houses were picked and moved up to 100 miles away. 30 years after it closed, 2 houses remained along with foundation for some of the buildings, the coal prep and loading. Now, 2024, nothing remains but the cemetary.
A Kaiser company town established in 1948 to supply iron ore to its Fontana steel plant. Town had its own hospital which became Kaiser Permanente's first health facility. Town abandoned in the 1980s when the steel mill shut down (and shipped to China).
'like , comment and subscribe' as they say ! Great clip, many thanks :)
well done
Wow!
Looks like a great place for the homeless.
My thoughts exactly--or one of the 27 abandoned military bases we have! BUT NO SQUATTERS!
That was the first thing I thought, but were will they get food?
They are building retirement communities with multi million dollar houses 20' apart in Las Vegas, why not turn this place into a retirement community?
@@autobug2 Many are HAZMAT 1st Class. But then again others are getting there.
There is no infrastructure :/
Are you willing to pay to repair all of those buildings, they're literally falling apart.
Interesting video, thank you! Nice flying. Would have been great if you could have slowed some of those shots down a little, tho. Incorporating and juxtaposing some of the current state video with older clips showing life in the town while "thriving" maybe? Not being critical, just spitballing ideas for weaving a deeper story.
Thanks I appreciate it. Just starting out so I think there’s definitely ways to improve.
@@thecrazyadventurist5796 Best of luck!
One the one hand, it's good they want to re-open the mine rather than ripping up ground for new one somewhere else. On the other hand, that area appears to have good access to water, and would make a great mini Palm Springs.
Post apocalyptic vibe. I wonder if the vault dwellers will reclaim them someday?
That would be sick.
Amazing footage and sad that the town decayed to what it is now.
The voiceover is very quiet btw.
First ever voiceover. Will improve in the future.
@@thecrazyadventurist5796 . You're much better at it than I am.
Would make a great zombie movie set.
Who owns the former residential property?
Is there a water source?
There has to be. Some of the lawns are green where the caretaker and others live.
Yes. Julian Hinds pumping station about 5 miles away
The mine was test site for kaiser coal spardwood.bc canada.some equipment was move up north kaiser coal.the steel mills close the mines close too.sad.😮
May I ask what the story is behind this, I've never heard of this place abs love history.
I think "possibilities" when I see this unused space. But of course, it's not gong to be easy for any usage now. Seems sad since PEOPLE, animals etc did live here. Home. With all the overcrowding in Prision's, seems this prison might have been re opened. Perhaps this area being so remote and under inhabited is the reason. The land does seem pretty grim, too. Who knows, maybe whoever bought this will surprise us, or it will sit longer unused. Interesting. TY for sharing.
Did the mine tap out, or did the steel mills it supplied become uncompetitive? Doesn’t really matter I guess. Can’t see anyone wanting to run a mine in Cali.
China
Looks like the Standing Rock reservation as it stands now.
This is not true at all.
Looks like a great place for the homeless to move to.
Living there must have been depressing af and I am sure alcoholism and drug use were rampant
Takes one to know one
Why so negative?
Very sad...
Not really. That’s what happens when you structure civilization off of a limited resource. Mines dry up, town dries up.
@@RAY-THE-WAY In this case the mine didn't dry up. The sole client steel mill dried up.
So maybe provide some context??
A wasteland. Homeless sleeping under bridges...and all these homes left to rot. Unbelievable. Sad.
OK. We move the homeless to the (refurbished) empty quarters at Eagle Mountain -- and then what?
Please omit the music( noise) in future films. This was a beautiful piece of information well done except the noise. 👍👍
Send the CA homeless out there along with all the L politicians!
OK. We move the homeless to the (refurbished) empty quarters at Eagle Mountain -- and then what?
Put the migrants there with building materials and they will rebuild it
"Dreams forged in steel." 😒
Sorry didn't finish. The music was louder than the commentary. Hard for old ears.
Living in the UK where there is a housing shortage and new towns are springing up on green-field sites which used to be farm land, seeing a whole town of empty houses seems rather wasteful to me. Nice background music which was not intrusive to the narrative.
How many 1st Nation People were murdered to build this dump.
Should put the illegal immigrants there! I hear theyre very resourceful, maybe they could turn it into something!🤷♂️🙋♂️
Deport them. Let them make THEIR COUNTRIES GREAT AGAIN.
If you are going to provide commentary, can the music.
i still owe my soul to that company store.
Great place for the Homeless to camp & not have their stuff throughn into garbage trucks & kicked down the road
Except this is BECOMING a giant landfill. New owners recently bought it