The Sidetrack Adventures channel on YouTube explored the Route 66 town of Newberry Springs, California, and why a good portion of it became buried under the sands of the Mojave Desert.
The main reason was a neighborhood was inexplicably built on the dry riverbed of the Mojave River. What can go wrong?
Newberry Springs remains best known as the home of Bagdad Cafe, a Route 66 restaurant named after the European cult movie of the same name.
Fortunately for the Bagdad, it apparently wasn’t constructed on that riverbed.
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