A Tour of Fabulous Boron, California: Strange Desert Town in the Middle of Nowhere

My dad worked at Borax for 34 years. In fact, the number 18 mule is named after my dad, Berry Babine. He was a blaster at the plant. And he found a dinosaur bone that was in the newspapers out there. In boron, pictures of him with the big dinosaur bone. He didn't get to keep it, of course..

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Aerospace Museum. The two seater is a Swedish Saab Sk-35C Draken. The ED code on the F-4 Phantom would be one of the test aircraft from Edwards Air Force Base.

PHANTOM !!! My favorite aircraft. When i was a little kid, we went to an air show featuring Thunderbirds, flying F4-Phantoms.

I first was at boron. When I was 10 years old Now I am 74 years old Like your videos Subscribe many years ago

Love this! We were stationed at Edwards AFB in the early 2000's and would go into Boron every friday night to eat at Domingoes, a great mex restaurant right next to that Food Mart, Domingo was a fabulous guy, might be time for a road trip!

If you want to see the original 20-mule team borax wagons, they are restored and on display at the Laws Museum just outside of Bishop, CA. There's lots of other cools stuff to see there too.

I graduated from high school there. Of all the places I lived growing up, Boron was my favorite. I also worked at the mine for a few years, mostly Plant 9. I remember the burlap bags, 100 tons a shift. Sack Sewer, bucker, and fork lift operator. Good ole days. lol

I nearly got bitten by a rattlesnake there. I was climbing up a hill and reached up to a ledge. When I pulled my head up, I was face to face with a rattler. Thankfully, he/she shook the rattle and gave me a second to let go and fall down the hill.

As shown in the video, Borax and related salts are an ingredient for plain glass, also called "Borosilicate Glass". So I guess it is pretty important.

In the last half of the 50's while the show was still on tv, they offer for sale a plastic model of the team. We boought two, one for my brother and one for me. One was put together and the other is still in the original box untouched. It was a very accurate displsy my brother put on a board. Glas you have your health back.

Fun fact: I lived at Edwards from 1960-1964, 1st-6th grade. There were nuclear bomb shelter caves in the pit, there was a drill to drive there, pretty funny considering there was maybe 10 miles of 2 lane raods. The caves had rinsing showers for decontamination, bedding, clothes, food, board games, etc. We were told about them, never saw them myself. How delusional people were that we cold survive global nuclear war. My mother said she didn't want to go to the caves, she wanted to go in the first blast. Not clear they would have nuked Edwards, it was flight test base with no combat planes, but maybe they were after the borax, considering they could deprive us of all those household products.

I love Boron! You missed one of the best little Mexican restaurant there. Right across from the museum. Been a few years since I’ve been there, but as a trucker, I used to stop there every week. And I could usually get parking close by. I loved that place. And they have very interesting historical displays inside. They always treated me very well.

I love these little town visits.

Thanks Sarah, a run through my past. I was born and raised in that area including grades two through five in the grade school in west boron. Little league baseball in boron. You didn’t mention that Boron is also the sonic boom capital of the world lol!

This was where my father was offered his first teaching job in the mid 50's. My mother said she was glad we did not have to move there during an early 60's visit as my father was also offered a job in Long Beach.Funny thing is that I spent 50 years chasing desert adventures as an adult. Thank you WH because time has caught up with me and I enjoy following your adventures from my easy chair.

I rember watching Death Valley Days. In the opening of the show a 20 mule team would appear. The Announcement; Brought to you by 20 Mule Team Borax.😊

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Boron is the stuff that makes glass stretchy. Without it, there's no fiberglass insulation. Think about what your winter heating bill would look like if there were no fiberglass. Yes, Boron is leading the green revolution - not silicon valley. The truck in town is a Tonka truck next to the ones they use now. I used to go to Boron for supplies up until about 2000. The town has really gone to the dogs but they're sitting next to hundreds of billions of dollars of chemicals. Trona is even worse to look at and they're sitting next to trillions of dollars of chemicals.