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Peter, love your images from that area and they make me somewhat homesick. I was stationed out there, just a few miles west of Kramer Junction (which we called Four Corners). When I first drove out to the Hawes Radio Relay site, the wind was blowing sand and tumbleweeds across the highway and it looked like an old black and white western. I was coming from an assignment in the Middle East and the Mojave was the last place on earth I wanted to be assigned. One good thing about the place was that it was 3 days on and 3 off, so I traveled often, often up US395, up to Death Valley, along the east side of the Sierra Nevada, and across to Yosemite every season. Tonapah was never much to begin with, but I heard what it had become too, and that old radio relay site didn't fare too well either. The purpose of the site was to broadcast during a nuclear was and I got out of there in time. Not much to do out there, just catch rattlesnakes and learn photography. Here's an old film image not too far from the site.
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