David Litschel, Travel and Stock Photographer

Images of people and places from across the United States of America: Bombay Beach, California

  • Bombay beach sign at the entrance to the town on the edge of the Salton Sea in Southern California. It is 232 feet below sea level, the second lowest point in the continental U.S. It is pretty much a forgotten town. There are little to no services in the town, although there are still residents who live in deteriorating trailers and other types of run-down structures.
  • Contemporary art installation consisting of many sizes of painted television sets displayed on the ground, on the roof of a building in the settlement of Bombay Beach, California.
  • Bombay Beach Drive-In is a fake drive-in cinema that is really a group of junked cars arranged as though they were facing a drive-in movie screen. A trailer from a tractor trailer truck serves as the screen being painted all white.The drive-in's sign is shaped like a Mid-Century sign with its sharp angles and colors.
  • Bombay Beach Drive-In is a fake drive-in cinema that is really a group of junked cars arranged as though they were facing a drive-in movie screen. A trailer from a tractor trailer truck serves as the screen being painted all white.The drive-in's sign is shaped like a Mid-Century sign with its sharp angles and colors.
  • Junked Nash Metropolitan is part of an art installation called {quote}The Drive-In Bombay Beach.{quote} Art installation by Stefan Ashkenazy, Sean Dale Taylor, and Arwen Byrd. The white tractor trailer truck serves as the drive-in's screen. Originally installed as part of the annual Bombay Beach Biennale, the {quote}Drive-In{quote} is a permanent fixture now and, according to locals, occasionally shows films. Most viewers sit in the old ferris wheel seats in the front row.
  • A painted garage door mural on a residence in Bombay Beach, California of a telephone call.
  • Two buildings in Bombay Beach, California painted with miscellaneous religious, anti-racisim, and other categories of statements by the artists.
  • Momma raised an outlaw graffiti spray painted on a building, a mobile home, in the settlement of Bombay Beach, California near the Salton Sea.
  • A graffiti laden trailer with the word sore painted on it along with symbols and several lounge chairs ouside in the desert sand in front of it.
  • A trailer that has been added onto with a very colorful paint job and the wording {quote}The Nest{quote} with two dead palm trees beside it in the settlement of Bombay Beach, California.
  • Painted cow sculpture on rooftop of a mobile home in the settlement of Bombay Beach, California located on the shores of the Salton Sea.
  • A life-sized Monopoly hotel on a concrete pad with {quote}Park Place{quote} painted on a pad in Bombay Beach, California.
  • Contemporary 6 mannequin art installation painted, with restraints and bondage outside a building displayed on the ground in the settlement of Bombay Beach, California.
  • Rubber chicken attached to a telephone pole in the small town of Bombay Beach, California.
  • The International Banana Museum remnant, a banana sculpture in the parking lot off of California highway 111 by Bombay Beach, is all that is left of the now closed museum. The museum's closure was a causualty of the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • A out of service airplane transformed into a fish as installation art.
  • Sculpture by Lara Hoad, {quote}British Pavilion - Enough Rope (To Hang Yourself){quote} was exhibited at the 2019 Bombay Beach Biennate.
  • {quote}Last Splash{quote} by Boris Chouvellon is very large star sculpture on the beach at Bombay Beach in Southern Califorian by the Salton Sea.
  • “The Event Horizon” by Martin Taylor, right, is an abstract representation of a black hole.
  • Lithium sold here in Bombay Beach, California.
  • Two dilapidated roadside tall business signs with their main signage broken and missing along California highway 111 by Bombay Beach near the Salton Sea in Southern California.
  • Sign for Salton Sea Recreational Area covered with stickers to make it almost unreadable at the entrance to Bombay Beach.
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