Abandoned Alpine Desert Trailer Park Resort
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- čas přidán 5. 05. 2020
- Welcome to Wonderhussy Adventure #424
Date of Adventure: 4/8/20
Exploring what appears to be an abandoned resort of some sort in the mountains outside Death Valley! I had no idea of the history of this place; I just found it randomly on Google Maps. Help me try to figure out what it might have been!
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When touring old buildings many times you can determine the age of the structure by lifting the lid off the toilet tank and turn it over. The date of manufacture is usually stamped there!
The Curtis Mathes Console TV was from the early 1970s. The small TV was from the 1980. The interior design of the trailers looks to be mostly 1970s.
@Robert Gardea Thanks for pinpointing the exact date.
The trailers were probably built in the late 60's early 70's and used until the late 90's. That would explain the 70's flooring and then the 90's paperwork. You shouldn't feel sorry for the kids. That was probably a great place to live back in the day before it was abandonded and then stripped by scrappers. Another great video! Thanks!
The "recall" pen was from an unsuccessful attempt against a County Commissioner in 2001
Hi Sara, I hope you and Barry are well in the travels to NYC. Stay safe and sane, you are held in highest regard by so many.
Ditto
William Keith Is Sara banging Barry, she sure has a lot of male “friends”, friends with benefits, haha sleazy Sara!
Thank you for taking us along for the journey! It was interesting and fun! A lot of nostalgic moments looking at some of the relics. Best wishes for another grand. Adventure! Stay safe and happy, awesome young lady! 🧧🤙🌺
It is great to see you having fun exploring on your big cross country adventure Wonderhussy. I can not wait to see what you will share with us in the near future. Thanks a bunch for sharing.
Curtis Mathes TVs were the most expensive TVs on the market in their day. Quite the status symbol to have one.
Sarah, you find the most interesting places. Love the videos
YIKE-A-ROOS that was one fabulous Wonderhussy adventure. Keep it up.
Absolutely beautiful desert scenery
I'm hooked on the Hussy!
Thank you for the amazing videos, I'm all caught up to date after binge watching for a couple of weeks!
I was sad when I realized that I watched everything. 😏🥰
Yeah, always hoping there's an old episode you missed.
@@johnholcomn8560
Here's what I do; I try not to watch new vids as soon as they're uploaded, & try to rack up 2 weeks worth of vids to watch on Saturdays. 😂 I guess that's called delayed gratification? I don't know.... Lol
And then, sometimes I'll go back & randomly watch some old videos because I absolutely love the older videos, especially the cabin explores, & overnight stays....bad into muzak & all! I love that bad muzak, I really do. I'm a proud weirdo. 😁
Go way back, & without reading the title, randomly pick a video.
You may enjoy it, it's enjoyable to me!!
I'm just finishing up my Saturday viewing, & watching Sarah packing up her house, & giving Fred a burger, then I'll random choose an old one to watch.
Have a nice weekend!!!
@@sharimc72 Sounds like a plan. : D
Only the Wonderhussy could make it so interesting to tour abandoned trailers.
A joyful romp as always!
Another great find, looked like it was really something at one time. Take Care and be Safe on your way to NYC!!!!
Was at this place last weekend. Was at one time a remarkable place, must have been a great place for older people to live. Sitting and talking long into the evening, the incredible views. I found a magazine on the site dated to 97.
Love Wonderhussy adventures!
Just before you said you’d put your flatscreen in that old TV, I said to myself that’s what I would do!💜 Awesome video!💗🌸💗🌸💗
New wonderhussy drinking game. Take a drink every time she says 'creepy" or 'old' and slam your drink when she says 'yikes,' yikers' or 'yikeroos.'
She uses the word 'creepy' too much! She must have a fascination with creepiness.
chug every time she says "middle of nowhere"
Friggin'
If I played that drinking game I'd wind up in the hospital with alcohol poisoning, or dead from it! Gotta admit though, her repetitive clean speak now is so much better than her constant cussing constantly in her very early videos.
@@FatManWalking18 But the truth is, she IS in the middle of nowhere in 99% of her videos. How do I know? Because I've been to, or traveled through or to, a lot of the places she's been over years on geology, speleology and biology field trips or playing music as a traveling musician, in some of the 'bigger' towns along her travels.
Howdy WONDERHUSSY!! I just stumbled onto your site - LOVE IT!! I grew up in Lost Wages and have been gone for 15 years - living in southern Maine - but still do miss the Desert, especially High Desert, like some of the places you've explored in old abandoned mining camps. Anyway, if I was out there I would absolutely love going along on some rides! I camped in many mountain and even lowland areas over the course of my life out in Southern & Central Nevada, and did day hikes when I was younger with friends who had jeeps and did similar things as you, way before videos were done on cellphones! Anyway, I will explore ALL of your videos - THANKS.....you're AMAZING!!!
Just watched this fascinating explore. I'm always curious about the history of these places and you definitely presented a wide variety of scenarios. It's hard to say what it was without knowing the history. I guess researching places like this is more work than it's worth.
Hello wonderhussy. It's Ted here. Glad to see that you were out there with a friend. I sent you worried about you sometimes going into the middle of these nowhere places. But I know you're safer out there than you are in the big cities. Another good video see you in the next.
Love these videos! Keep it up girl!
What a cool find!! Looks like some sort of retreat/resort, I bet they allowed tents in the grass area (that’s why they needed the bathroom trailer). Some resorts here offer a tenting option.
Your a Bright Star in my Lonely Hearts Club LIFE! Thanks Sarah :)
People had a lot of visions for that dessert and that's pretty cool.
Hi Sarah, cheers for being so cool , loads of your back catalogue for lockdown entertainment, the pricks are gonna let us play golf on Monday I reckon. 🐸⛳🏌
Love to watch you and your videos and to hear you talk 🤗.
I love the setting of the trailer park, I would love to see it myself!! Keep up the great videos!!
I love it too- it's very green!
Good video Sarah, you have a real knack for finding abandoned treasures. When the border is open again you should come visit Alberta. We have ghost towns and great locations to explore! Stay safe.
Love your videos, keep em coming WH !!!
If you edit your own videos you're very talented and have a great personality. Keep em coming your awesome
Yes, she does her own editing and sometimes even creates her own music on them, using Garage Band.
It was a lovers retreat. If you didn't have a lover one was provided for you.
Well, well, that would be.....unseemly!
@chris younts lmao lol
Oh really? How do you know? First hand experience, by chance? LOL!
@@Steve_Farwalker: Yea, good luck on a "surprise, surprise, surprise" experience !
Nice!
My guess is this place was a retirement colony. We have one in our town, it's a 55+ manufactured home subdivision. Very nicely-kept-up. Maybe retirees would pull their own home up and live there until - they didn't live there anymore. In the absence of new buyers...
97 doesn't seem that long ago but it is 23 years ago, yikes. Way older trailers 😱. The walkways , so cool, love that little bridge. It's still a mystery. Thanks for stopping by.
Yes, those old console entertainment centers were neat. Some even had stereo/record players and 8 track players in them..and so many of the cabinets were a pretty nice piece
of furniture. I'm thinking that one trailer has his and hers sides to it for baths and restrooms...plus a laundry room. The bulk of the plumbing could be in that area that way.
Don't blame you at all for wanting to get back in that warm truck, Darlin'. Thanks for sharing with us minions(8-).
THANK YOU SARAH,,WOW,ONE OF MY FAV FROM YOUR GREAT WORK,,KINDA SAD YOU DIDNT HAVE DRONE AND COULD HAVE STAYED..YES,I SEE LOTS POTENTIAL..STAY WELL THANK YOU
As you know, someone owns most desert land, even when it appears unused. The covered pavilion, the showers and the inside bar support the use as a resort. At one time it had electricity, running water and piped sewage disposal. The grand entrance and "club" center could have been the centerpiece of a land-sales scheme that went bad. The cluster of mobile homes in a remote area also suggests a nudist resort, as many have noted. If so, it would have been family friendly (hence the kid) with a large number of older residents, often retired. However a nudist resort is going to have a water feature, even in the desert. The economic model is to rent spaces with hookups for long term residents, plus a few rooms in the mobiles for short term visitors. The combination of excessive remoteness, cold winter, and super hot summer may have conspired to make the real estate effort or resort unattractive and uneconomic. Given the way hope springs eternal in the desert, there might be another person who might want to try again -- until they figure out the cost of disposing of the vandalized mobiles and starting all over with new improvements. Safe and adequate well water would be a key. Asking old timers in the area is the most effective way of finding out the history. That's easier said than done in the middle of the current pandemic. Thanks for another wonderful desert discovery, and for respecting desert peace.
Just light a match🤣
love your channel. it is awesome. you rule. & are beautiful keep posting videos & stay safe & healthy good luck to you & barry on the trip.
The TV cabinet has what they call "tambour doors". Just info... Haven't seen those in many years. Thank you for posting ~ from Texas
You find some fabulous places, isn’t it sad though, how some people destroy everything.
I have the same idea with the old tv cabinet, they are so cool.
Notice how someone has peeled all the aluminum siding of the trailers. Brass plumbing fittings are also missing but they didn't strip out the electrical wiring.... probably because they allowed aluminium wire in those days and the salvage value isn't equal to the work to get it.
Do you think they wanted the siding for it's scrap value or wanted to side something with it?
the wind out there tears everything to hell
Heya you 2 one Adventure after another you lucky ppl,you both inspire me so much,ive made so many better changes 8n my life since known you sarah&after lockdown,the world will be all iur oyster!i cant wait,i hope i get to explore Nevada bone day,wana go to the Barker/Baker Ranch mansons family was at&go see&jump 8n some hot pools&burning man&gota visit slab city too!so much to do&see,youve openened my world up wonderhussey,even watching vids is geeat qhen too sik to travel,love u too bits
Atta girl Wonderhussy!
Wow!!!! What a cool place that would have been to stay.
By the time you read this you'll be waaay over yonder😉 Very nice find, very beautiful area👍
Light n breezy... love your videos. Gets my mind off the drama. Thanks sweetie 🙏
My great uncle lived in pahrump when I was a kid and I can remember driving by that place forty years ago when you showed the fountains I flashed on what it used to look like. Thanks, though I was little so I don't know what went on there
Who else out there are trying to pull the screen down to see more of what’s on the floor?? Caught myself trying like that was going to work! Interesting place WH!!
Those "doors" on the old TV are called Tambour doors...very expensive detail on a piece of furniture
Watched this on my small 50 inch smart 🤓 Samsung TV so clear and at the first part of this video sky was Beautiful Clouds so white 😍 yeaaa
I'm envious of you for having that sweet TV!
Well Sara Jane, that was fascinating! My thanks to you & Barry (The Beast!) and your Subscribers who commented...
I does seem like a summer resort with a ‘caretaker’ family living/securing/maintaining all year round...?
There seemed to be a small stage/performance area opposite the BBQ in the covered area...
With no pool to support the shower/bath block, nudists could be a possibility, but it could be to allow (older, less mobile) folks to freshen up without going back to their ‘cabins’...
There were a couple of instances of in-progress renovation to drywall which suggested attempts to renovate to the very end...
Yes, I was intrigued with the apparent high level of services in like electricity, telephones, water, etc & services out like sewage & bath/kitchen waste water...
Accommodation for cars was less clear, especially near each trailer, so I was wondering if (again, older, semi-retired folks...?) got 3rd-party transport in&out at the beginning/end of their long summer booking...
Regarding the Ballroom sign - I’ve settled on this being another sign(!) of older folk...
Gold veined mirror glass (tiles). That big console TV that you admired was a Curtis-Mathis, one of the best TVs back then.
Great video,thanks
The way that wind is blowing reminds me of a nor'easter.
Well documented decay
Great video
God's country ! Beautiful view . Hi to Barry
Love the console TV
Hi Sarah, The TV with the carved legs I believe was called Early American style furniture. My step-mother loved that style. Her TV, coffee tables, kitchen table etc was all Early American. BTW, I live in a 1964 double wide. Its very similar as these in the video except twice as wide. Earlier in my young adult days I lived in a single-wide, very much like those. I noticed they had removed all of the traitor hitches from those out there. Mine still has them and still has the tires underneath of it! Why did I buy it 10 years ago? Because it cost less than a cheap new car!
Curved legs would be more French Provincial style
I want that Grand Ballroom sign!😃
I have some of those peel an stick gold flaked mirrors in the shop. Been there at least 5 years.
Excellent content Sarah! I am saddened, however by the savage vandalism!
Those trailers are 50 years old and built to survive maybe 30 before they are rotting away. Even the cheap thin glass windows just weaken and can no longer handle the wind. Hence it was time to desert them and move on. That isnt savage vandalism its weathering and salvaging.. And that removal of salvageable stuff is a good thing as more of the shite trashing the desert floor is cleaned up
Good video 👍
I'll bet it was a great place back in its heyday.
Wonder, Please be careful in those places, don’t step on a nail or get a splinter
LOL... Right
I have those same drawer handles on my kitchen cabinets. I just painted my kitchen cabinets
The resort had to be in 1970 or so. Green shag carpet is '70s, also Sesame Street debut Nov 10th, 1969. I was 3. Great video. What a cool place to find.
Would be cool get rid of those trailers and build small cabins there , nice little vacation resort .
Have you ever taken something from your finds like that sign for the balloon and putting in your backyard? For memories.
Take care an be careful
Girlie...... I have a mobile home that had the same flooring and yellow carpet...lol and same cabinets with the knobs in the middle. Built in 1980. Yikes is right. Stay safe my friend.
The 80's? I thought they weren't making the aluminum sided 'wobbly boxes' any more in the 80's. Thought they had already gone to making them more like a stick-built home. I live in a 1964 double wide. My favorite nick name for them is wobbly box due to the whole place moving when the washer spins.
More than likely an early mobile home community. Living in one of those modern 1960’s mobile homes was a popular option compared to older homes of the era. Our first home was a 12 by 60 ft mobile home. They were built to a much higher quality standard in those days! Our home cost $7800.00 and it one of the top choices among manufactured homes. Our “Windsor” (brand name) was luxurious for 1967! “Those were the days my, I thought they’d never end . . .”
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"See you at the next location." is Shea from the Shea Show's tagline. LOL
Wonder-H should be on that NETFLIX Series called GLOW! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💪🏻💪🏿💪
Good description, "Like The Sound Of Music with Cactus"
Looks like some sort of resort to me. The cabin that Sarah thought was the office could have been office and managers accommodation. The one with the fireplace a bar for when it was colder outside.
I know how good the desert smells on days like that
Hey Wonderhussy, you can find out the dates & ownership of properties on the county Assessor's site. It was developed in 1994 as a company retreat, and sold to a Canadian outfit in 2000, who have left it just sit and deteriorate because people trespass. The TV antennas like that were sold up into the late 90's.
what about all of those plastic lids in that second trailer where the stuffed animal was
Amazing Hussy and her sometime weird adventures.....Holy Crike ..?...what wass that. Wonder why Nevada allows this junk to accumulate.....no holding any feet to the fire to make them clean up their messes....then what would Wonder do ? Or us...you go gurl 😜
Hey Sarah.. its the wonder hussy Band B ... you should but it and restore it... tiny houses weekend rentals..
Omg that TV does look like a relic lol
You're not the only one that loves those old t.v's I want one like that too but I want one of the old super wide ones that has a stereo built into it also . If you want to see something crazy check out how much old Sony Trinitrons sell for on E-bay .
🙂 beautiful
THANKS!
I have on of those TVs with a round antenna, it reminds me how old it is every day.
Stay, healthy and stay safe.
Do you know the way to San Jose ?
Well whatever you're doing Sarah I hope you're being safe of your on that trip to New York. Made in New York City what kind of picante sauce is that! LOL stay safe
Nice vid wh
Curious as to what that place once was?
It must've been a cool getaway
WH you’re the best. The other day I heard evil chickens make deviled eggs. Further, saw this and it made me wonder.... stay fresh, cheese bag. A perfect way to say good bye to a few.
I will tell my daughter about the evil chickens - that's a perfect "Dad joke."
Nice video
Thank you for your Ruby Roo Resort Resort Recording.....this place would be interesting to research, did you cancel New York trip?
She was just outside the city last night. I assume will go in today once their vehicle is sorted.
Sarah love your videos! Perhaps when you find evidence that a child lived at a site you explore and left a few minor tidbits that you don’t jump to the conclusion that the child was tortured by illegal drug runners or sacrificed at the DNC convention or some other terrible demise. It could be they lived there, their family moved and they lived a normal, or good, or great life. Keep on exploring!
Must have been really unique in its day given the location.
The knobs on the cabinets in the kitchen of the 3rd trailer. Were used in the late 60's and early 70's.
That was a very strange group of trailers and buildings.
I was initially thinking retirement or nudist resort, but then seeing the small child items blew that theory out the door.
May have been several family members who got together to live together on the property. I came across a compound like that in the N. Edwards/California City area where several family members lived on one property in their own individual homes.
A lot of us used to work for IBM and thanks to downsizing we no longer do. Got my pension that employees later did not get. Still getting it til I die.
They had electricity somehow, and even telephones, even though I saw no poles with wires. I assume they had septic tanks and leach lines for plumbing, since we saw sinks and a dishwasher. They must have run out of water, forcing them to leave. I saw no water tank tower for a slow well pump to fill up.
THERE WAS A TALL(15-20 FT) TANK IN THE BACKGROUND OF 1 SHOT,,BUT YES,WATER RAN OUT,,STAY WELL