Slab City: photograph of signs advertising solar panel sales booth

Slab City or The Slabs is a snowbird campsite in the Colorado Desert in southeastern California, used by recreational vehicle owners and squatters from across North America. It takes its name from the concrete slabs that remain from the abandoned World War II Marine barracks of Camp Dunlap

• 1986-1992

• Durbin, Greg
• George, Sherman

black-and-white print (photograph)

• Niland, Imperial, California, United States
• Salton Sea, California, United States

• Photographs

• Alternative lifestyles
• Deserts
• Electricity
• Entrepreneurs
• Self-reliant living
• Signs (declaratory or advertising artifacts)
• Solar power

Point: 33.257928,-115.462354

• image

• No linguistic content; Not applicable

Shared Shelf: 8906311

Architecture and City Planning

Garden and Landscape

Photographs

• Greg Durbin
• Sherman George

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2021-09-29