Candace Youngberg shows historic photos of Bombay Beach in Bombay Beach, Calif., on Friday, Dec. 15, 2023. The photo is depicting a car stuck in mud after flooding. | Kristin Murphy, Deseret News ...

Bombay Beach is pictured by the receding shoreline of the Salton Sea in Calif., on Dec. 11, 2023. (Photo: Kristin Murphy, Deseret News) Snowbirds flocked to Bombay during the winter months.

In the 1950s and ‘60s, Bombay Beach, California was a celebrity-studded resort town known as “ Palm Springs by the sea.” But you wouldn’t know that by walking through the town — or at least what’s ...

In Bombay Beach, some 32.30% of occupied homes are rented, less than the 36.2% national renter rate. The typical renter in Bombay Beach spends $1,648 a month on housing, less than the $1,023 ...

Were it not for an accident, Bombay Beach may have never existed at all. In 1905, a man-made canal overflowed, causing a flood that created the largest lake in the California Area– the Salton Sea.

After she moved to Bombay Beach in 2018, she was interested in continuing the concept, this time using the Salton Sea as a backdrop and having longtime residents model clothes made from waste ...

Reporting from Bombay Beach, Calif. — It is dawn on Sunday morning and a sliver of blue light has begun to emerge from behind the Chocolate Mountains, illuminating the steely waters of the ...

Insistent though they are in my head, describing such individual snapshots doesn”t really do justice to the whole: it casts “Bombay Beach” as a shabby-chic coffee-table photo essay, a ...

Bombay Beach is on the landlocked Salton Sea, which is more like a large lake southeast of Los Angeles. “A miracle in the desert” and “the Salton Riviera,” developers once said.

Though the Bombay Beach film project—a dystopian Western set near California's desolate Salton Sea—is still in the conceptual stage, it is as integral to the band Bombay Beach as the album it ...

Check out my capsule review from Tribeca below. Here’s what I wrote on “Bombay Beach” back in May: It’s not necessary to infuse a film about Bombay Beach and the Salton Sea with much fantasy.

But Bombay Beach Biennale co-founder Stefan Ashkenazi says that “eight years ago you couldn't give a building away here.” He adds that the artists “are breathing life into a town that was was and ...