The High Desert is a magical place that can take a life time to explore. Whether you have a day or a life time, it is worth spending some time to revitalize and experience the complexity of our area.
29 Palms is an eclectic group of people from artists to Marines. Our local stores are filled with unique & interesting items. We are friendly and love to share the rich history and stories of our community. We are also home to one of the last drive-in movie theaters in California.
Other Attractions, to name a few:
Joshua Tree National Park contains rock formations, plants, trees and topology which attracts people from all over the world. The rock climbing is among the best in the world. When you visit don't forget to visit Barker Dam and go to the highest point - Keys View - where you can see all the way to Mexico. There are multiple Oasis &, of course, the main Visitors Center in Twentynine Palms where you can obtain detailed information and watch a movie on the park.
The Integratron is an acoustically perfect tabernacle & energy machine sited on a powerful geomagnetic vortex in the magical Mojave Desert.
2477 Belfield Blvd. Landers, CA 760 364-3126
Giant Rock & Crystal Hill
George Van Tassel, creator of the Integratron, was a legendary figure, an aeronautical engineer and test pilot who worked for Lockheed, Douglas Aircraft and alongside Howard Hughes at Hughes Aviation . He was also one of the leaders in the UFO movement who held annual "Spacecraft Conventions" at Giant Rock for 25 years. Van Tassel said UFO channelings and ideas from scientists such as Nikola Tesla led to the unique architecture of the Integratron. He spent 18 years constructing the building.
In 1947, after an exemplary career in aviation, Van Tassel moved his family to Giant Rock in the Mojave Desert near Landers, California and opened Giant Rock Airport and a cafe called The Come On Inn. He leased four square miles of land from the government, including Giant Rock, a 7-story high, freestanding boulder formerly sacred to the Native Americans who lived in the area.
George Van Tassel began conducting weekly meditation sessions in 1953 in the rooms underneath Giant Rock which, he claimed, led to UFO contacts and finally to an actual encounter with extra-terrestrials when, in August of that year, a saucer landed from the plant Venus, woke Van Tassel up and invited him onto the ship. There the aliens gave him the technique for rejuvenating living cell tissues. In 1954 he and his family began building a structure they called The Integratron to perform the rejuvenation. George described his creation this way, "The Integratron is a machine, a high-voltage electrostatic generator that would supply a broad range of frequencies to recharge the cell structure." His annual Spacecraft Conventions were attended by tens of thousands across two decades, featuring speakers that included high profile UFO contactees and pioneers in the fields of antigravity, primary energy research and electromagnetics. Van Tassel led weekly meditations in the rooms under the rock from the 1950's to the 1970's, which he claimed led to UFO contacts.
Adapted from 1997 Visitor's Guide and Service Directory, published by the Landers Chamber of Commerce
Pioneertown was built in 1946 as a movie set for western movies, including the movies of Gene Autry, The Cisco Kid, with Duncan Renaldo, Annie Oakley with Gail Davis, Judge Roy Bean with Edgar Buchanan, Range Rider with Jock O. Mahoney, and Buffalo Bill Jr. with Dick Jones. The movie set was to provide a place for the actors to live, and have their homes used as part of a movie set. Some of the original investors in the town were Sons of the Pioneers, which the town was named after, Dick Curtis who was a professional villian in old movies, Bud Abbott, Russell Hayden, who played Lucky on the Hopalong Cassidy series, Louella Parsons the Hollywood gossip columnist and Philip N. Krasne: "The Man Who Saved Pioneertown".
Mane Street is private property and is always open to courteous pedestrians.
No entertainment on Mane Street Monday thru Friday.