#barstow

[williammarksommer]

66 Motel

Barstow, California

Digital Sides

Nikon D750

[caldrive]

Barstow Drive-In Cinema, Barstow, California (1991). Just off the old Highway 58, IIRC (which I probably don't, it was so long ago).

[americaisdead]

barstow, calif. july 2025

© tag christof

[unteriors]

Arrowhead Avenue, Barstow, California.

[literally-1894]

This is a small issue, and we'll likely never see it amended, but it feels like such a loss that we never got the music of Harry Partch in a Fallout game.

Two of his main bases of operations, Los Angeles and Oakland, can be visited in the series. Having been active from the early 40's through to the early 70's, Partch is also period-accurate. His subject matters dealt with rural, lower-class life in the US during the Great Depression, and his style of composition manages to sound alien and threatening while simultaneously being oddly hilarious (the two main sides of Fallout, the first of which is regrettably missed in recent years) .

If you listen to his voice, he absolutely sounds like he could be a talking head in a Fallout game, and having spent much of his life making bizarre musical instruments in a ranch converted into a carpentry workshop, he'd probably have at least three vault-saving MacGuffins stached away somewhere. Everything about Partch, from his time spent as a hobo to his haircut in the 50's, makes him a perfect fit for the series, but we got a 50/50 distribution of Doo-Wop and Ambient World Music instead with no room for nine minute operatic pieces about hitchhiking.

[coolthingsguyslike]

[frankfosterphotography]

mesa and canyon,

Rainbow Basin Natural Area, near Barstow, California.

[oldshowbiz]

Bob's Big Boy: World's TALLEST Thermometer