31+ Salton Sea 1950S Images. Celebrities and politicians made it a point to visit the salton sea as a weekend retreat. In the same era the water was too saline to support the freshwater come 1960 the salton sea even had a yacht club, but at the same time california's fish and game commission announced that they feared the salton.

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138 022 просмотра 138 тыс. The salton sea by imperial valley, california. The salton sea has 3,976 members.

The fish also attracted migratory birds, and the salton sea eventually became a stopping point on the pacific flyway.

Celebrities and politicians made it a point to visit the salton sea as a weekend retreat. The salton sea, 90 metres below sea level, has been shrinking for decades. The salton sea is shrinking, a phenomenon due partially to rapid evaporation—summer temperatures around the lake routinely top 110 degrees—and meanwhile, fish that had been introduced to the lake were flourishing, and by the late 1950's the salton sea was the most productive fishery in california. Resort towns popped up along the shore in the 1950s and people thought.