A U.S. armored division in California, United States. The division is aligned on a California desert. Aerial view of the desert. Tanks, trucks and other vehicles moving in desert convoy. Soldiers aboard tanks. (World War II period).
Tourists visit Bodie, a ghost town, during a tour in the High Sierra region between Yosemite and Lake Tahoe in California, United States. A car heading towards Bodie, a ghost town (formerly a mining town) in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada Mountain range in Mono County, California, United States. View of abandoned houses in Bodie. James “Jim” S. Cain, the landlord of Bodie, stands imposingly in front of an abandoned house. Jim Cain welcomes the tourists to Bodie. A cabin house where United States President Herbert Hoover once lived in during his time as a mining engineer in Bodie. Jim Cain assists a man into the Yosemite Transport System (YTS) stage, tipping his hat to say “good-bye” to tourists leaving. The U.S. Hotel, one of the larger structures in Bodie, is seen in the background.
Tourists visit the town of Bridgeport during a tour in the High Sierra region between Yosemite and Lake Tahoe in California, United States. A billiard parlor selling ice cream, snacks and tobacco (Now the location of Ken’s Sporting Goods 258 Main St, Bridgeport, CA 93517, United States) on Main Street, Bridgeport. Sign beside the billiard parlor. The Superior Court (School St, Bridgeport, CA 93517, United States) of Bridgeport, California. A woman steps out of the car to admire Mexican poppies. Woman looking at flowers.
Orange trees growing in an orchard in California during the Great Depression. Walnut trees in a grove. Mountains surround a bean field. Clouds forming before a storm. Wheat stalks blowing in the wind. Lightning and thunder during a thunderstorm. Torrential rain floods a farmland. Soil erosion from flooding seen on a hillside. A farmer walks through land severely damaged by floods after a storm. A farmer and his wife survey the damage done to their orange grove after flooding. Various farmlands damaged by soil erosion. Muddy topsoil oozing and collapsing during heavy rain. Rain washing away the topsoil of land. Gullies forming from torrential rain. Topsoil being washed away in creeks. Rapids in creeks during heavy rain, pouring into rivers. Flood washing away an uprooted tree. Soil erodes from side of a river. Aerial view of topsoil pouring into the Pacific Ocean along the California Coast.
During period of semidarkness, at dusk, blinking red lights are seen. Then an aircraft is silhouetted low over the runway. It proceeds slowly, only a few feet above the runway, and then crashes in a spectacular ball of flames, followed by a huge cloud of black smoke. (Note: The aircraft, an F-100 Supersabre was being ferried from Palmdale, California, when the pilot elected to make an emergency landing at Edwards AFB.)
An American Trust Company bank branch building branch in northern California (likely Palo Alto or elsewhere in Santa Clara County). Sign on building reads "American Trust Company." A man comes out of the bank. A 1958 Ford Thunderbird convertible car, light blue and white, pulls up via the drive-in window. Bank teller seen at the window processing their transaction. The car drives away.
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