Salton Sea: Hey Days

I can't wait to watch the whole doc. I used to drive up to Salton Sea every week in the early 90's. My boyfriend and his mother moved there and he worked at the only gas station there in Salton Sea Beach, as well as the very run down restaurant/hotel in Salton City. It was pretty much already a ghost town by that time, but I'm so curious to know what it looks like these days. It's really sad to see how beautiful it once was and know that it will never be that way again.

I really like the song in the opening. Its by the Friends of Dean Martinez but I don't know the name of the song...

wow this is a blast of the past and i always woundered about this place and now i am enlightened. Thanks for the old past memories of a great old place. great video/

I like that place , I think Im becoming into a hippie .
I have no job ,no money ,no fun ...I think Im retired right now.

I was born in Palm Springs back in '74, and I was raised in Cathedral City. I have some good memories of fishing with the family at the Salton Sea.

The last trip we took out there in the early 80's, I remember scooping dead fish off the water with a net and being puzzled at my parents and grandparents for telling me to put them back in the water. I thought the whole purpose was to catch fish! :D

I've seen this documentary before and it is outstanding. I actually watched it with my parents. It was heartbreaking for us, but still outstanding. An amazing story.

The whole doc is great too! with a voice over by John Waters.

Reminds me of the HP Lovecraft story "The Doom that came to Sarnath."

It was made on accident by man, it can't have been expected to last forever.

but life lives on in Joshua Tree!!

And there's a great film called "The Salton Sea" with Val Kilmer (post-Willow) with heavy tattoos and nonsense. Great movie. :]

I camped here a few years ago when I went to the Coachella Music and Arts Festival. It's definitely an interesting place to visit. It's a beach resort, ghost town.

The story of the Salten Sea is a metaphor for the decline of America, and should serve as a warning of how one mico-environment was destroyed by man and nature in the space of a mere decade.

Intriguing stuff. If there was enough interest maybe it could be managed better and brought back?

This is one freaky landscape - similiar to Utah's Great Salt Lake & surrounding salt flats.

How interesting! I went to Palm Springs one time for a short while when I was on a road trip across the Southwest. But I never stopped by Salton City.

A shame to see something like that disappear the way it did. Its very similar in a lot of ways to what is happening to the Aral Sea in Central Asia...