Trona, California Ghost Town: Exploring Abandoned Houses
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- čas přidán 10. 10. 2023
- In this video, we take a quiet and reflective journey through the ghost town of Trona, California, and explore the abandoned houses that once held life within their walls. Trona, nestled in the California desert, has a fascinating history that's both mysterious and melancholic.
Join us as we walk through the past, discovering the forgotten remnants of lives once lived. We'll share the stories and history that give these decaying homes their unique charm.
If you're a fan of urban exploration, ghost towns, or have an interest in California's history, this video is a subtle and insightful look into the past. Please subscribe, like, and hit the notification bell to be a part of this quiet exploration of Trona's abandoned houses and the tales they silently hold.
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I actually live here in Trona. Bought a house here June of 2023. That huge building is the old rec center. The last quake in 2019 pretty much decimatef the majority of businesses left as it was too expensive to renovate. Houses are actually selling around here. Town has a great community and very protective.
What kind of job do you have or are you retired?
how much did you buy your house for?
A couple I know, live there but the earthquake damaged their large home and they closed it up because of the bad damage and moved to a smaller house they owned. Nice couple
Trona is a nice clean little town. Between the two earthquakes that happened back to back and Covid, the town has lost population and businesses. However, it has very inexpensive housing with good city power, water that is good for bathing and cooking natural gas.
I know someone who bought a nice, very livable house for $29K
I lived in Trona as a small child. My father worked at the power plant. It’s hard to explain to people what it’s like to people who have never been to such a place.
These older desert towns don't get much respect but they can be great places to live.
I was born in Trona 75 years ago. Im surprised that it is still there.
Hope your still with us sir
It gets super hot!! 118 in the summer
Interesting video! Cool shot of that railroad turnaround setup. Thanks for posting this!
Drove through there 5-10-24 and still same as shown in video. Very desolate. Saw 3 people then drove up toward Death Valley and did not see a human, dog, bird, lizard, bug for hours.
You won't see much at 65 mph. I camp out there every year during spring and fall. There are burros, snakes, insects, and much more.
when i was in high school and lived in burbank my friends and i would go camping in death valley and drove through troma, very sad to see what it looks like today. looked much better back in the 60s, small towns dont usually recover ftom disasters.
I live in Ridgecrest. Trona is way too empty for me. That is where the twin quakes centered at in 2019.
FYI I lived in that town when there was 2000 people there the reason it’s a ghost town now is because they broke the union up at the plant back in the 70’s also that big building that was boarded up was Joshua hall there is a full size bowling alley below it
At one time Trona got all it's water from within the valley. There are springs up each of the major canyons in the Argus Range. There are still remnants of the old water system. You just gotta do a little hiking to get to them!
That's really interesting, I guess they are all dried up now huh?
@@theabandonedproject Not at all. They are flowing the same as always. Why would you even assume that they dried up? You must not spend much time hiking in the desert.
@@blackturtleshow I did some online research about why people moved away and it said one of the main reasons was because of water shortages. Also I know the history with the Owens River valley and how LA country really screwed up the environment when they rerouted all the runoff to the LA aqueduct. I assumed it was a similar situation, but my Internet source could be inaccurate, and I suppose I made a bit of assumption just from looking at how dry the landscape is around there.
@@theabandonedproject I've hiked every single canyon in Searles Valley and Panamint Valley, with the exception of the Slate Range (east side of Searles Valley) there is a spring in each canyon with only a couple exceptions.
I went out with a group & we did a photoshoot at a ran down building & the neighbors across the street just stood there watching us like we were up to no good. 😂
Ive been there yrs ago, around 2008. Seems like there could be some Cobalt or Lithium out there, somewhere. Good place to search for minerals. Trona might make a comeback someday.👍🏠🙏
I have been longing to visit Trona for some time now. Thanks for sharing man.
No problem 👍
I believe the locals even have a nickname for that football field at the high school, they call it "The Pit"
Cool now we can get folks a home not a tent
Union busting and robots is why its the way it is now, My grandma still lives there and has 30 or so houses there.
We had two major quakes back to back in 2019 , honestly if you came to put our town down just stay away
The town was greatly affected by the twin earthquakes from July 2019.
Videos like these only show the armpit and the ugliness of Searles Valley. I get it.. it drawls interest. But.. there ARE nice neighborhoods and beauty here as well.
Some of the nicest people you will find and a few great churches!
Where? What cross streets
@user-es5jq6yy9l Pioneer Point.
I've been through there... it's an oven in the summer & even if you bought & renovated one of those places for cheap it's harsh & not alot of anything to do
Ridgecrest is only 25 minutes away from Trona. Not 45 minutes. The Shell gasoline station you photographed closed shortly after the earthquake. As for the mineral plant, majority of it is now automated & sadly not much of a need for humans to operate it. It's not a bad town & the locals have a lot of camaraderie amongst each other.
I have visited Trona and a nicer community of people cannot be found anywhere else in California.
@@MeMe-cd1wy Thank you for the kind compliments. Yes there are a lot of abandoned properties within Trona. However it's not exactly a ghost town & when you get to know the residents within Trona, you won't find a nicer group of residents.
I think the boarded up building you circled was the old community center.
Trona has a sad story. Twin earthquakes of 7+ and federal and state government did nothing. San Bernardino county gave ice and water. Many people were instantly homeless. The falling down building you are see are the results of those earthquakes. People are poor, but the earthquakes made them homeless.
These old homes were owned free and clear, but people did not have money for insurance. So many just walked away.
Guess Gov Newsom decided Trona did not offer enough votes
When i drove through Trona 15 years ago this place was literally the meth caital of the US.
Has it gotten any better?
I like to stop at Esparza’s Restaurant on my way to/from DV.
My husband also had pics of his 54 Ford truck taken out there because of the cool looking empty buildings
...."WELCOME TO TRONA"....
The video would be improved if it was less about you and your face and the interior of your car, and more about Trona, the vibe of the empty houses, the fantastic landscape, the majestic mountains, the pinnacles at sunrise. Look at the art in the little burger shack. Amazing watercolors by a local artist.
Exactly. We know what the narrator looks like in 19 seconds but what we really want to see is the area. Too many cameramen ruin a good documentary this way.
99 cent stores seem to be going under.
I think most places are abandoned due to the earthquake that happened a few years ago.
Now most of the potash comes from stoners bongs
NOW GO TO DARWIN NEXT...🫠
You didn’t mention the numerous earthquakes which was the biggest reason for the abandoned houses. Come on man! Do your research!
Hey awe the gas station had its underground fuel tanks collapsed during the last big earthquake out there in like 2020 / 21 and the owner just couldn’t afford to fix it back up.
It was like a mom and pops place.
The Biden years have really hit the town really hard.
Gov Newsom does not seem to care about Trona
This is a response to Bill
Gavin Newsome and people like him don’t care about anything or anyone other than their own special interests and or business that he or they are friendly to.
People really need to stop and look at the leftist communist democrat party agenda better to understand what is really going.
Why did President Carter shut down USA steel mills all across the USA in the late 1970’s?
Because of what the democrat party was promoting at that time was global freezing and they claimed at that time that the steel mills were causing pollution that was going to cause global cooling and freezing.
Kiser Steel in Fontana California was closed down supposedly due to the Global Freezing.
But it has been running as a foreign business ever since.
WOW Jack! You got just about everything wrong. Did you stop and talk to any of the long time residents? I lived and worked in Trona for 45yrs. My wife was born and raised there. We both made a damn good living there. We sent both our children to a university debt free. We retired debt free. We bought a house in a 55+ community that is much closer to our children DEBT FREE. Maybe you should do a little more research first before you go badmouthing someone’s community.
Great place for immigrants
Send the white people there
enjoy, i wish i can do that