
Ice Cold Beer Unlikely Here

by Joe Schofield
Title
Ice Cold Beer Unlikely Here
Artist
Joe Schofield
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Cima. Mojave Desert, CA. The Cima Store. Well, the sign looked new back in May 2011.
Cima was founded circa 1900 when H.C. Gibson established the first store. In 1905 the first post office opened in the store. Gibson refused to pump the gas for his customers and therefore may have created the first self-service station in the country. The town served as both a railroad siding and a commercial center for ranchers and miners.
Few people now live in the area. In fact, like the neighboring town of Kelso to the southwest, Cima is now usually considered a ghost town. Nevertheless, both towns still see considerable activity on the Union Pacific rail line that brought the towns into being. Between Kelso and Cima lies the Cima Grade, the steepest part of the line between the Los Angeles area and Las Vegas. The tracks rise 2,000 feet in 20 miles.
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August 22nd, 2024
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Christopher James
Congratulation.....your wonderful work has been featured in the 1000 Views on 1 Image Group ..... Feel free to place your featured image in the Features Archive and any Genre specific Archive l/f/p

Jim Cook
I would love finding something like this. Depicts a very stark, harsh and isolated view of how some lived despite the above words.

Anthony Jones
Beautiful work! Thank you for submitting your artwork to the Southern California Artist Collective Group where the image is now featured on the home page. Feel free to post this in the Featured archive in the group discussion page section L/F

Ben Prepelka
Congrats! Your work is now featured in the Roadside group! Please consider adding it to the “Featured work for the July and August 2024" active discussion thread. (Like/Fav 8-26-2024)

Johanna Hurmerinta
Your work deserves to be featured in our group "The Meandering Photographer" Please consider adding this work to 'Featured work in July - August 2024' active discussion thread. (l/f on 08-25-2024)