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9-Eagle Mountain 2002

My dad Rudy Hooper worked here in the late 60s and early 70s. My sisters Maureen and Karin or I would go with him for a week during the summer and hang out. One family that we knew was the Stouts, mainly because they were Dutch/Indonesian also. Roy.
Kaiser Steel ceased operations at Eagle Mountain in 1983 and was turned into an adult correctional facility in 1988. It is now in the motions of being shut down by June 30, 2002 because of the budget: It cost $4.7 million a year to operate the Eagle Mountain facility and there is a push by several California counties to use the old Kaiser mine as a landfill. Most of the houses have been boarded up and there are about 5 streets with houses that are occupied. The prison’s 90 employees and their families make up most of the town’s 250 residents. I tried finding the bowling alley but just couldn't locate it. The alley was the place where us kids hung out on the hot summer nights while our dads were working in the mine.
Visit Eagle Mountain High School. STOP THE EAGLE MOUNTAIN DUMP. Back to my site RoyHooper.com.
Visit the Eagle Mountain Family Trees page started by Larry. Password is "kaisersteel".
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Living quarters
Living quarters		 Anyone know the date of this photo? Ariel shot submitted by Patty Doss Koning
Anyone know the date of this photo? Ariel shot submitted by Patty Doss Koning		 Lay out as of April 2002
Lay out as of April 2002
Satellite image-Unknown year
Satellite image-Unknown year		 Street map. Yahoo 2002
Street map. Yahoo 2002		 A detailed map
A detailed map
1-Desert Center
1-Desert Center		 2-entrance
2-entrance		 3-kaiser road just south of the town
3-kaiser road just south of the town
4-kaiser sign
4-kaiser sign		 5-kaiser office
5-kaiser office		 6-mine
6-mine
7-mine 1
7-mine 1		 8-mine 2
8-mine 2		 9-mine 3
9-mine 3
10-mine 4
10-mine 4		 11-Rec Hall Before and After
11-Rec Hall Before and After		 11a- Rec Hall
11a- Rec Hall
11b-Rec Hall 1980. Photo submitted by Luis Arellano
11b-Rec Hall 1980. Photo submitted by Luis Arellano		 12-houses that are occupied on the north side of Yucca Dr.
12-houses that are occupied on the north side of Yucca Dr.		 13-houses that are boarded up on the south side of Yucca Dr.
13-houses that are boarded up on the south side of Yucca Dr.
14-This school is closed but there is another one in use
14-This school is closed but there is another one in use		 15-the school actually had a football field with lights
15-the school actually had a football field with lights

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Steve 14-Jun-2009 03:51
Does anyone know how to get hold of the people that oversee the mine now? Or if it's possible to access the area without supervision? I'm looking to set up a location scout for a film. Thankful for any input. Steve
moonjeam 30-May-2009 21:11
eagle mountain mine will be a going concern shortly. It will once again be a large supplier of iron ore to be shipped all over the world.more to follow soon.signed moonjeam
SHELBY FERMON 06-May-2009 22:43
Breanda Huff.
MY NAME IS SHELBY FERMON, MY BROTHER IS BEJAMIN FERMON CLASS OF 1974. YOUR BROTHER DAN WOULD TAKE ME PLACES WITH HIM WHEN HE WAS MARRIED TO KAY COMER IN EARLY 70,WITH THERE LITTLE GIRL DENIES,{ NEESEE } AND YOUR OTHER BROTHER BRUCE.WHO WAS MARRIED TO CINDY LADE. AND I STILL REMEBER THE DAY REX PASS.I WOULD LIKE YOU TO LET THEM KNOW THAT , I WANT TO THANK THEM FOR THE PERSON AND THE MAN I AM TODAY,THEY IS NOT A CAR,OR A TRUCK I CAN NOT WORK ON.I CAN WORK ON ANYTHING.AND THE OUT DOORS AND NATUR,I LOVE IT.AND MY CARE FOR PEOPLE AND LIFE.AND MAKEING ME WHO I AM TODAY. THANK YOU DAN AND BRUCE FOR TAKEING TIME AND CAREING FOR ME AS I WAS OWN KID AND LOVEING AS ONE OF YOURS KIDS.I AM AS EASY GOING AS YOU TWO ARE. NEVER MERRIED YET,ON KIDS,44YEARS OLD NOW. LIVE SACRAMENTO,CA SHELBY,FERMON THANK YOU FOR MAKENING ME WHO I AM TODAK.
Tony Nell 03-May-2009 01:59
Flew over Eagle Mountain recently, not much has changed. We have great memories of this area. Hopefully the state can turn it around, and make it a productive hamlet again.
Brenda Huff 06-Apr-2009 20:21
824 Palo Verdy Drive was my home until I moved to Canada in 1973. Our baby-sitter would walk us by 824 as it was being built, I was 4 and my brother Bruce 3, Rex 6 and Danny 8. Our Dad, Daniel Huff Made 824 our home until the mine closed. Over the years and all the different places I called home. I have found people love to hear Eagle mountian stories,
and life in the desert. A small town out of current space and time, not only now also then. Brenda Huff
Tommy Cox 04-Apr-2009 00:22
Nice shots Roy. I graduated 1969 and drove truck till 74. I sent you an invite for a Yahoo EM group where there's some folks you might remember. The Stouts were friends of mine too.
Donna Rozell Smith 02-Apr-2009 23:02
We moved to Eagle Mountain in 1959 when I was only 6 months old. My dad drove a truck at the mine and so did my Uncle George. I went to Kindergarten and First Grade there. We had a lot of friends and family and it was a great place to grow up. Does anybody remember the trampoline? We moved back to Texas in 1967. After the Benny Plant opened up the burning of the sulphur or something in the air, caused my nose to bleed every night. I had at one time My dad, one of his brothers, my mom's brohter, my uncle George (my mom's brother-in-law) and several of his brothers and sisters and their family all there at one time. We were never at a loss for playmates.
Tamara (Mullenix) Kemp 16-Mar-2009 05:45
Wow, Things have changed. My family and I grew up on Desert Avenue. We lived there in the mid 60s to the mid 70s. I loved it!
Sandra 05-May-2002 21:02
Roy, The bowling alley is located where the word prison is on your aerial photo with the layout of EM in 2002.
Kerri Graham 29-Apr-2002 17:00
My mom Sharon Scott, took us back to Eagle Mtn. April 2001. How sad to see once a thriving beautiful town now a ghost town. My mom and her best friends from there (Iris Wells, Scott Ferguson and Kenna Ferguson) still talk and rekindle the good times and it's fun to sit and listen to them, it sounds like it was a wonderful place.
Roy 27-Apr-2002 16:49
What a shame it was to see the rechall in that condition when I took that photo. There were lots of good memories there for a lot of folks. And many streets south of the rechall have turned into rubble as well. Roy
PATTY LORE 24-Apr-2002 22:35
Wow, so very sad to see the photos. Anna is right, that was the rec hall, just up from the elem. school and down from Bald Eagle. We used to go to the movies there, had my prom there (1968), and my Mom used to teach tap dancing there also. I left in 1968 to go to College of The Desert. Thank you for your photos. Sincerely, Patty
ANNA LORE 24-Apr-2002 15:01
Thanks for the photos, hard for me to rember streets..I was there from 1955 until 1977. Just called them the 100-1700 blocks...The rehall #11 was where the beauty shop on left and barber shop on right, don't remeber the dr ever being in the rec hall.Thanks
Anna
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