Exploring the Buried Town of Newberry Springs 

Saw a big horned sheep there 10 yrs. ago.

What a various country usa is! You have many stories to tell. Thanks. Me in Korea and have grandchildern in New Mexico.

Thanks for sharing your experience! I had family out the other way in Lancaster, it was all desert and now mostly paved. Take care! 🌵🏜️

I lived in Newberry Springs too. I hated taking the bus to Dagget and waiting on a dirt road for the bus. I lived on the other side of town off Harvard Rd. When did you live there? I remember I had a friend that lived down from Bagdad Cafe with a giant barn in the back yard his parents store stuff in.

@@nationalist818 I think I lived there like 78 to 85 maybe? I know I graduated in '85, and I remember going to Newberry Elementary School before going to daggett. Daggett was the high school before they built the new one, and if I remember correctly, we were the first class to graduate from the new high school. I was part of the AG program with Mr. Gin and I know we planted a lot of the trees around that place.

@@GAVACHO5150 very cool. We lived in Palmdale for around 30 years. I went to Sage Middle School and Palmdale High School, class of '74. We moved there from Long Beach california. I could never imagine growing up in the city as the desert was mostly always my home. We used to go up into the mines around Rosamond and Mojave. But that was long before the population took over. Drugs were also rampant in the Antelope valley. And another reason why I had to move lol. At one time, it would have been a great place to raise a family. But now it's nothing more than an extension of San Fernando Valley. It really break my heart see what has happened to my little desert town. Nothing like it was before. And the culture of people that have moved there made it a horrible place to live. It turned it just as crazy and violent as San Fernando. But the little town of Mojave and Rosemond in California City have all grown in size but they are still small towns or small cities. But there's just too many criminals living around there that I would not even feel safe out in the desert anymore. You never know who that is approaching you out in the middle of the desert in their own vehicle. The only living relatives I have left there is my oldest brother who lives up in a closed community up above Tehachapi california. And even he is working on getting out of there. I don't know what took him so long LOL

@@GAVACHO5150 the same happened to White Fence farms. That was kind of a higher-end neighborhood with everybody having a little bit of property. The area is now unrecognizable because people are not keeping up on their houses and there are broken down cars in yards. And no telling who lives in those neighborhoods now.

@@GAVACHO5150 drugs were always a problem in the Antelope Valley is far back as I can remember after I learned about it all. I used to call the Antelope Valley, methylope Valley. The only part of the Antelope Valley I like now is when you drive about 40 miles past The Buttes, way past Lake la. Where the desert really begins now. Love my desert. Just not so much the people in it.

You're too young to remember the commercial that said "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature" How about it's not nice to fool WITH Mother Nature?

I used to live in Palmdale as well. R-4 was a busy area. My first home there only cost us 18K. And it was a corner lot. One block down was the desert and we used to ride thru on our motorcycles. My husband grew up in Littlerock. Back then it was acres and acres of orchards. I helped open the first McDonald's in Palmdale, by Hwy 14. People back then were friendly and it was a quiet town back then in the early 1970's. Sad to see it now. I drove thru the area in 2008 on my way to North Carolina, and it was depressing.

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Thank you. I'm glad we can be informative.

​@@SidetrackAdventures Hey Sidetrack,i subscibed recently. Recently i have become a tire head , truck guy and want to do some overlanding. I am just wondering what kind of rig/truck you drive and more specifically what size tire you have?

I looked around but couldn't find any pictures from when they were still occupied. I hoped Google had an old satellite photo at least, but none that zoomed in enough unfortunately.

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@@GAVACHO5150 With great difficulty, we don't show the tears or the frustration!

Thank you. The wall looks like it helped a lot, but I imagine at some point when the roads have completely disappeared you just have to call it a day lol.

@@SidetrackAdventures By the way, the title of your video, The Town Under the Sand, would be a great title for a novel.

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I stopped and checked out the marker for the fort actually. I was wondering if there was any trace of it.

@@SidetrackAdventures there are still remnants of the fort and there has been caretake out there. i think there is a hunting club that uses the area.

@@SidetrackAdventures who knows what happened to it. That area is also the western start of the old government road. Lots of historical stuff on it but an off road 4x4 is needed.

People from la moving to barstow?? Yikees thats when you know its getting bad

I think alot of the riff raff have moved to Victorville and Adelanto too.

They lasted about 50 years so it wasn't that immediate.

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Completely agree!

Not far from Roy's Cafe.

Tell us one of your best conspiracy theories. I'm down to hear some. 🙂

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My Dad owned the garage across the street for years from the 70s to the mid-2000s

Does she still own the Cafe I haven't been there in about 15 years

PLEASE do tell about the town conspiracy theories!!!

I know JD Mitchell as a kid, and later in high school worked for one of his sons in the hayfields. He was a good man and a true cowboys/wrangler/farmer frontiersman kind of guy.

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I drove by where the Walter Knott homestead was out there actually. There's nothing there now but I read somewhere he owned the land up until his death.

I didn't know about the koi farm, but every time I see his volcano house it reminds me of something a James Bond villain would have. I'll have to see if that episode is online.

@@SidetrackAdventures I rewatched that episode today after seeing your video. I just keyword, Koi Farm Visiting With Huell Howser. It’s archived on Chapman University’s web site. He donated his video archives to the University along with his volcano home and other holdings. If you ever come up to the city of Orange, that university has a museum dedicated to Huell. You may want to check Chapman University’s website for hours of operation.

@@SidetrackAdventures KCET also has a You Tube playlist on their channel of Huell Howser's "Visiting". I don't know if the Koi Farm episode is there but it's interesting and fascinating. The family who owns it seem like good people.

California, the part that remembers him, really misses Huell. He was the original video explorer of California. I still remember his visits to the Newberry Springs areas. There was once a lake with boats and even an amphibious airplane that would fly Tiki Culture tourists in. The desert eventually put an end to all that. Even the water park (which Huell also did a special on) up on the I-15 was related to the dreams of turning the Newberry area into a resort area. Heull's volcano home is either related to his interest in the Newberry area, or his interest in the Newberry area is related to him having built his volcano home there. Sure miss that Tennessee boy.

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Hows the property value there these days?

Our pleasure!

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Thank you too!

Had paint on a car get messed up driving in Palm Springs once because of sudden sand storm.

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Thank you for watching. Will have some more San Diego County stuff soon.

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