Talk:Nude Bowl

Unreliable sources

I know that many of the references I've added are not reliable. That is why I added so many. By showing the quantity of unrelated sources, I intend on demonstrating that there is some degree of interest in the article's topic. Then, if I can find anything reliable, I will replace the unreliable sources. -- Kainaw^(what?) 02:52, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

It has been 6 months. The existing refs have not been challenged. So, I removed the "lack of citations" banner. I would still like better citations for the article, but they are very difficult to find. Libraries don't tend to keep copies of old Transworld Skateboarding and Thrasher magazines or the old Bones Brigade videos. -- kainaw™ 02:12, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

Location

I followed the path I remember taking using Google and Yahoo maps. I believe the Nude Bowl was located just up the mountain, west off the end of Pierson Blvd, north of Palm Springs, west of Desert Hot Springs. Currently, Google shows heavy development in the entire area. Yahoo shows nothing there. Can anyone verify that this is the correct location? If it spurs anyone's memory, I was living in 29 Palms at the time. I headed west on 29 Palms Hwy. After coming down the grate and passing Indian Blvd, I continued until I saw a large white cylinder to the west of the road (which I believe was water storage). I turned right, passed a few houses on the left, and continued straight off the end of the road into the desert and up the mountain. After passing an old iron gate, the nude bowl was further up the mountain on the left. You could take a steep runoff straight to it or circle around the back on an easier to handle road. That's all I remember. I can't find any coordinates or descriptions of the actual location online. -- kainaw™ 02:07, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Using Google Map's Street View, I "drove" down this route and I can definitely say that I was correct. You go west down Pieson Blvd. When it makes a hard left turn, keep going straight. There is a path (very clear now that there is construction there). In the past (before construction) you'd follow a glint in the distance - the gates to the nudist resort. Just past the gates, you had two options. You could try to go up the steep runoff or circle around back up the nice windy drive to the remains of the nudist resort. Looking at Google Maps, it looks like they flattened the whole place. -- kainaw™ 05:24, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Actually the place isn't flattened. The big deal is that the abandoned development just east of it has access all fenced off. The development terraced the land prior to the Desert Garden Ranch (AKA Nude Bowl). The foundation of the nudist resort remain but any walls that might have been there when you were there are gone. The bowl/pool is filled in completely and looks to actually have been demolished. I hope to write a historical article about Desert Garden Ranch and the Nude Bowl next year. —Preceding unsigned comment added by JS5owner (talk • contribs) 01:04, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

I do know that the nude bowl (the swimming pool) was shot up to break up the concrete and filled in with sand. Writing a historical article will be very difficult since sources are rare. I've tried to find the old Bones Brigade videos. I know that they went there on at least three videos. One of them was the one where they built the big clear capsule thing out in the desert. It seems like much of the documentation of the 80's skateboarding stuff is quickly getting lost. Trying to find old Thrasher or Transworld mags is very difficult. Now, the whole culture is being repackaged as tiny little finger-boards at Target or Walmart (and, of course, they don't have a replica of my old Rocco III - yes, I would waste the $5 on it). -- kainaw™ 01:21, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

nude bowl GPS#

The gps tracking number for the nude bowl is 33°58'03.1"N 116°37'13.2"W Ben. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.237.37.127 (talk) 20:44, 16 August 2014 (UTC)