From Wikipedia.
This is the place I was writing about in the last three posts as it has Route 66 going through it.
Is a Marine Corps supply and maintenance installation located in the Mojave Desert east of Barstow, California.
This Marine Corps base is presently the second largest employer in the Barstow area and was established as the Marine Corps Depot of Supplies at the present location on December 28, 1942, when the U.S. Navy turned it over to the Marines as a storage site for supplies and equipment needed for the Fleet Marine Forces in the Pacific Theater during World War II.
By the end of the war, the base had outgrown its facilities and as a result, 2,000 acres of land were annexed from the U.S. Army in October 1946, In 1954, the Commanding General, Marine Corps Depot of Supplies, Roy M. Gulick, moved his flag from San Francisco to Barstow and since then the base has grown in stature, strength and size.
--RoadDog
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