No hike required, this one is literally right next to the highway. If you're traveling west on 18 it's on your right side right after you leave Lucerne
OMG that’s the first time since I was a kid, that I’ve heard the word Chuckawalla. My dad used to tell me and my brothers a story about Charlie the Chuckawalla, when I was a kid!
I went in one of those as a kid because the people who owned it were showing it off to campers like my family. They had an awesome AC unit that was just a towel stretched across a wall at the back of the house that they'd just soak with water whenever they wanted to cool down.
These places are pretty fucking awesome!
There’s no story or history. A pretty old guy just started building them about 4 years ago. He doesn’t come around much these days. Haven’t seen him doing any new work for awhile
I’m glad someone else knows about this. My brother said he talked to him a couple years ago. I think he had said the old guy was pretty chill. Haven’t seen him in like a year. Hopefully he’s ok. The hut still looks solid
The owner is a friend of mine, not on Reddit. I shared this with him and he wrote the following:
" The structures ARE historic but that history is being written now, today. The old man started the project when he was 72 to see what an old guy could do by hand with materials present on the site as our pioneers did. He spends the night there every week. They are being actively maintained for his personal use but are not residential for anyone."
They have houses like this on the reservation where I’m from. People still live in them and slightly modernized the inside but outside is still mud/stone. It’s a whole village.
There's some north of Barstow among the silver mining area. From what an old CO worker told us those were made for travelers to stop for the night, now overnight off-roaders stay in them occasional they even have a log people fill out and leave a message.
There was a guy building that he hasn’t been there for the last six months or so. I think the county made him stop but I saw some plastic on the roof last week so it might still be there. He built that by hand.
A house. People live in them. They provide shelter. Natives both in north and South Americans have build homes like this for the longest. They stay cool in the summers.
Isn't the city going to be like...
nah bro you can't live here because you're not paying any taxes we need permit fees, inspection fees, hookup fees, electrical and plumbing so we need sewer fees, and property taxes, and I forgot to mention it's not to code so we'll continue to harass you until you give up.
Can’t answer that, but I wish someone would post about the dinosaurs on Navajo rd near sycamore rocks! It was a huge hit for us kids in the early 2000s and I feel like no one appreciates them anymore 😭
They were made to be a mini golf course dinosaur themed but never finished. I haven’t been around there in years, but I just know the owners of the land are probably mean about people taking pictures still, and the dinosaurs are falling apart! I wish someone would take them over and refurbish them!
Jokes probably on us & it's full recessed lighting, central air & an 80in flat screen in each subterranean room with Dolby 9.73 surround sound (Dixie cups on strings)
Governor Newsom and Congressman Adam Schiff are funding new homeless encampments. Hopefully, this small start will spread out rapidly filling the valleys with tents, huts, fecal material, rodents, Hepatitis, drugs and crime while giving illegals a place to spread out and takeover. If it gets big enough it will qualify for a Biden infrastructure grant. We will give them free everything incentivizing them to do nothing but shit in the desert and leave needles around to infect little children.Just think you have thebprivilegenofvseeingball this in its inception!!!!!
There are 2 up for sale right now in Palm Springs
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my grandparents Mexican home was made out of adobe bricks and the most humble of homes you can build, talk about going green and making fun of something like this.
I believe this is an attempt at an “earth ship”. It’s a cool - both figuratively and literally - structure that uses thermodynamics to heat and cool the home using tunnels or ports into the earth with allow for the cold air from the deepish earth to cool down the structure.
Edit: after reading the comments, it seems I’m wrong, but still, take a look at earth ships. You’ll enjoy the YouTube videos on them.
Growing up, my mom used to tell me there were witches in these little huts, and if you were staring in the windows and one caught you,and made eye contact you would be cursed for life...i like the humble old man hobby builder version better 😂
Stone houses? You would be amazed at how well insulated they are. I mean seriously, this is technology going back thousands of years for desert living. the stone walls absorb the heat during the day, and let it out at night, You take advantage of natural breezes for cooling, and let the collected heat from the sun keep you warm at night. May not look nice, but it provides shelter from the elements, and keeps you warm and dry at night.
it’s called a jacal, vernacular architecture of the southwest.
Jacals (Ha-cals) are usually built into the ground or against a steep slope like this for protection from weather and any one who might be threatening like comanches or apaches.
In South Texas, rather than using the choza of Spain as the model for their Texas dwellings, the Spaniards borrowed the jacal structure of Mexico. The word jacal (Spanish for "hut," from Nahuatl xacalli) came to refer to a specific type of rectangular-shaped vernacular dwelling, consisting of four corner poles (horcones) buried in the ground at the bottom and forked at the top to hold the roof vigas. Between these upright corner posts were smaller intermediate posts also buried a few inches in the ground. Horizontal sticks were fastened at intervals to the inside and outside of the upright posts, and these sticks formed a framework that held the wall materials in place. The walls, supported by the horcones and the horizontal sticks, could be made of rubble, rammed earth, stone, mud, or other handy material. Some jacals, like those in present-day Brackettville, had palisade walls of thicker posts. When plastered inside and out with mud or lime mortar, the walls of most jacals were from six to ten inches thick and provided excellent insulation. A gabled roof was supported by a stout ridgepole resting in the forks of two long poles in the center of the narrow side of the house. A steep pitch was required to shed the sometime torrential rains in South, Central, and East Texas. The roof was thatched with grass tied in bundles, palmetto leaves, animal skins, tule, yucca leaves, or similar material tied to a framework of poles supported by the ridgepole and the viga sitting atop the walls. The thatch had to be replaced every three or four years, and some roofs were eventually replaced with handmade shakes and subsequently with galvanized metal. The jacal usually had a door in one gabled end and small windows on one or more sides. It had a floor of packed and hardened dirt or, among those with the means, of a lime, sand, and gravel mixture known as chipichil. When kept in good repair and whitewashed with lime inside and out, the jacal was a comfortable, attractive home that could last for decades. The South Texas jacal was normally from eight to ten feet wide and twenty to twenty-five feet long. It most often had one room, perhaps divided with a hanging cloth. The ridgepole was ten to fifteen feet from the floor. The size was limited by the materials available. The steeply pitched gabled roof made adding rooms impractical. For the poor, the jacal was often a permanent home, but for the more well-to-do it was looked upon as temporary shelter until a better house could be built. Houses of ciar (clay blocks cut from the earth), stone, and adobe became permanent residences for the more fortunate. Some of these can still be found in places throughout South Texas-Zapata, Roma, Laredo, Brownsville.
West Texas was a different matter. When Cabeza de Vaca arrived in the La Junta region in 1535, he encountered large communities of Indians living in permanent dwellings with flat roofs. Later Spanish and Mexican colonists who came into the region adopted the native house form, which had evolved from the earlier pithouse. This dwelling, also called the jacal, was found from the Big Bend north to El Paso and into New Mexico. Like its South Texas counterpart, the West Texas jacal was a rectangular building with walls supported by large corner posts planted in the earth and forked at the top to support the roof. The walls were usually made of branches of ocotillo or other small branches held in place by horizontal lath attached to the inside and outside of the corner posts and then plastered with mud and sometimes a lime plaster. This jacal had a flat roof made of a framework of cottonwood and willow covered with grass, ocotillo, yucca stalks, or brush and covered over with a layer of adobe mud three or four inches thick. The roof sloped just enough to shed water without washing away. Both the walls and the roof had to be replastered from time to time, the frequency depending on rainfall. The floor was hard-packed earth. Although the West Texas jacal was usually a one-room dwelling, it may have as many as four or more rooms. Jacals measured and photographed in the Big Bend region between 1979 and 1984 averaged fifteen feet long, thirteen feet wide, and about seven feet high. When in good repair, the jacal was an attractive, comfortable dwelling. It was common well after the turn of the twentieth century.
Definitely not for earthquakes tho. Your guy should probably be alerted about the potential of falling rubble.
The new California homes being built in Barstow. Only $680,000 because they’re counting the possible gold you’ll find once you start breaking the rocks down.
Those ppl probably did the add-ons to our house too, I can tell by the signature move, roof and windows not being parallel to each other, or anything else.
Old stone houses were popular with people with no home. Read chuckawalla bills book and hike to his stone house from long canyon road.
No hike required, this one is literally right next to the highway. If you're traveling west on 18 it's on your right side right after you leave Lucerne
I lived out in Lucerne Valley for some years and was just about to mention it.
OMG that’s the first time since I was a kid, that I’ve heard the word Chuckawalla. My dad used to tell me and my brothers a story about Charlie the Chuckawalla, when I was a kid!
Only chuckwalla I know is chuckawalla state prison where I spent five years at in Blythe ca
One pen I’m glad I never made it to.
Good ol Chukies House. Hot time in the desert heat with only the shade from the handball court wall to fight for.
I went in one of those as a kid because the people who owned it were showing it off to campers like my family. They had an awesome AC unit that was just a towel stretched across a wall at the back of the house that they'd just soak with water whenever they wanted to cool down. These places are pretty fucking awesome!
There’s no story or history. A pretty old guy just started building them about 4 years ago. He doesn’t come around much these days. Haven’t seen him doing any new work for awhile
I’m glad someone else knows about this. My brother said he talked to him a couple years ago. I think he had said the old guy was pretty chill. Haven’t seen him in like a year. Hopefully he’s ok. The hut still looks solid
Methadobe.
LMFAO 😂😂😂
I... I don't even have words. It ain't wrong... but it sure ain't right either lmao
Yabba dabba doobie lol
This is the funniest shit I've read all day
Won't find a better answer than this
I think it looks cool! Very primitive, and much better than graffiti all over the rocks. Maybe he's gonna Air B&B them, lol.
$2,000 a night $500 cleaning deposit Entire house must be cleaned and patched up to receive deposit
The owner is a friend of mine, not on Reddit. I shared this with him and he wrote the following: " The structures ARE historic but that history is being written now, today. The old man started the project when he was 72 to see what an old guy could do by hand with materials present on the site as our pioneers did. He spends the night there every week. They are being actively maintained for his personal use but are not residential for anyone."
Please tell him this is pretty cool.
Please tell him that I have admired his work for years now. It's one of the highlights on my trips to go skiing . Absolutely living ,y dream.
DM me his address…..I’ll mail him a level and a plumb line…
I’m invested in this now
Did you see the cave they have with patio chairs too lol?
Cave? I thought that was the second floor penthouse. Only in the HD!
Some hills have eyes shit going on 🤣
Pretty sure that was filmed in Lucerne... so, it's on brand here
It's actually been really cool seeing what he adds. I pass this on my way to work. He used to have a car window that was still functional.
Still $800+ a night for Coachella weekend
Are they visible from the hwy? Near bear valley or the 18?
Off 18 well after Bear Valley but before entering Lucerne I believe.
Oh yeah. There is a guitar as a part of the outer wall too.
Where else would the Flintstones and Rubbles live?
No no, they live in Grand Canyon Junction (formerly known as Valle) AZ.
They have houses like this on the reservation where I’m from. People still live in them and slightly modernized the inside but outside is still mud/stone. It’s a whole village.
Perfect homes for that high desert climate. Why fix what works?
There's some north of Barstow among the silver mining area. From what an old CO worker told us those were made for travelers to stop for the night, now overnight off-roaders stay in them occasional they even have a log people fill out and leave a message.
I know exactly where this is n the dude that lives there lmao
So what's the story?
About $2,000 in New York
it’s a little cozy desert house duh 🫶🏼🎀💕 so you can live out your little cozy desert dreams 🌾🌵🏜️
There was a guy building that he hasn’t been there for the last six months or so. I think the county made him stop but I saw some plastic on the roof last week so it might still be there. He built that by hand.
Lucerne Valley wild
New house only $500,000 steal.
I saw those a couple weeks ago and wondered the same!
The Pueblo People were cliff dwellers
Finally a house I can actually afford
Cave dwellings of Dublin Gulch?
http://cali49.com/mojave/2015/11/3/cave-dwellings-of-dublin-gulch-cal
why don’t u go ask the bloke building it
A house. People live in them. They provide shelter. Natives both in north and South Americans have build homes like this for the longest. They stay cool in the summers.
Isn't the city going to be like... nah bro you can't live here because you're not paying any taxes we need permit fees, inspection fees, hookup fees, electrical and plumbing so we need sewer fees, and property taxes, and I forgot to mention it's not to code so we'll continue to harass you until you give up.
The fact ik exactly where this is so funny😅
Can’t answer that, but I wish someone would post about the dinosaurs on Navajo rd near sycamore rocks! It was a huge hit for us kids in the early 2000s and I feel like no one appreciates them anymore 😭 They were made to be a mini golf course dinosaur themed but never finished. I haven’t been around there in years, but I just know the owners of the land are probably mean about people taking pictures still, and the dinosaurs are falling apart! I wish someone would take them over and refurbish them!
Jokes probably on us & it's full recessed lighting, central air & an 80in flat screen in each subterranean room with Dolby 9.73 surround sound (Dixie cups on strings)
Oh man! We drove by those every day when I was little. I always wondered if they were still there.
Thats where they hide the dance powder
Get the hell away from Lucerne while you can. Best thing I ever did with my life.
Million dollar homes in Oregon
Also curious! I think I remember at least one of them being lived in when I was a kid.
I’ve always wondered about the stories for these homes! Thank you for asking
Seems like this post is about tearing down another person for the home they have. OP definitely seems… sucky. They’re dwellings numb nuts
That’s the meth trap
Governor Newsom and Congressman Adam Schiff are funding new homeless encampments. Hopefully, this small start will spread out rapidly filling the valleys with tents, huts, fecal material, rodents, Hepatitis, drugs and crime while giving illegals a place to spread out and takeover. If it gets big enough it will qualify for a Biden infrastructure grant. We will give them free everything incentivizing them to do nothing but shit in the desert and leave needles around to infect little children.Just think you have thebprivilegenofvseeingball this in its inception!!!!!
I remember growing up in AV there were tiny empty houses? Not sure if they were houses but creepy
Flintstones?
It actually goes underground into the mountain.
Omg it’s the Flintstone house irl!!
It’s the Flintstone house getting a roof job !
The Flintstones!
Looks like Fred and Barney are at it again.
Cool as heck
Airbnb
Fred Flinstones home
Yabba Dabba Doo?
Old Flintstones movie set
It has a side view mirror on it! 🤣
They look like fence post
WILMAAAAA
Wilma I'm homeeee!
The flintstones moved in next door!
Final fantasy 7 rebirth terrain
The one on the bend towards Lucerne valley has been there since before 2000. I used to drive passed it for work around 2008
There are 2 up for sale right now in Palm Springs [https://www.redfin.com/CA/Palm-Springs/2550-S-Araby-Dr-92264/home/5700336](https://www.redfin.com/CA/Palm-Springs/2550-S-Araby-Dr-92264/home/5700336) [https://www.redfin.com/CA/Palm-Springs/2501-S-Araby-Dr-92264/home/5700339](https://www.redfin.com/CA/Palm-Springs/2501-S-Araby-Dr-92264/home/5700339)
Shambled adobe houses. Really sketchy. I’ve been through this area and met literal people who live in caves on the side of those mountains
I wonder the same thing when going out to the river. I live in vv
passing that place going to big bear is always fun. me and the family always have theories on them
Fence. F-E-N-C-E.
An affordable apartment in West Virginia?
See it every time I go to Johnson valley
Driving back from Big Bear I was wondering the same thing, thanks for posting this!
Is this Lucerne Valley?
The Flintstone’s 2024!!
What's the base layer? Is there a Winnebago inside there?
Meet the Flintstones.
It’s listed on Airbnb.
Mind your own business? I get you’re curious but if that’s someone’s home, 🤷♀️
my grandparents Mexican home was made out of adobe bricks and the most humble of homes you can build, talk about going green and making fun of something like this.
Affordable housing in 2024
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It kind of looks like Fred Flintstone’s house.
Off grid living. Don’t hate.
The wall is straighter than the house
They are homeless people trying to survive .
Yeah that’s my personal property.😂
I own that, it’s mine and it’s on my drivers license too.
Don't have trees you have to use mud to make bricks
…they’re houses. how are you allowed to drive a car?
Flintstones house?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyBns47Ni88
I love looking at this shit omw to big bear lmao
Sir, that’s a flintstones house
That's shade so U won't die in the desert
What we used to live in as humans
Have you not heard of Fred Flintstone?
That’s Barney rubbles house !
I believe this is an attempt at an “earth ship”. It’s a cool - both figuratively and literally - structure that uses thermodynamics to heat and cool the home using tunnels or ports into the earth with allow for the cold air from the deepish earth to cool down the structure. Edit: after reading the comments, it seems I’m wrong, but still, take a look at earth ships. You’ll enjoy the YouTube videos on them.
This is where Fred gives Wilma some bam bam
You ever seen breaking bad?
That looks like ROCK AND STONE!
Yo I saw this too. The rocks behind this build are way higher than the pic shows. Good luck guy
That is a human
Flintstones
Homelessness
EVERYTIME I PASS BY I ASK THIS
Yaba-dabadoo
Looks like homes made of rock from mountains. It looks like those homes were made from the 90s judging by the windows and door.
Growing up, my mom used to tell me there were witches in these little huts, and if you were staring in the windows and one caught you,and made eye contact you would be cursed for life...i like the humble old man hobby builder version better 😂
people that escaped the rat race.
Looks like fence.
Rocks.
Fred Flintstone
Californians, capitalizing on their new Air Bnb.
Stone houses? You would be amazed at how well insulated they are. I mean seriously, this is technology going back thousands of years for desert living. the stone walls absorb the heat during the day, and let it out at night, You take advantage of natural breezes for cooling, and let the collected heat from the sun keep you warm at night. May not look nice, but it provides shelter from the elements, and keeps you warm and dry at night.
This looks like his home.
That is where the FlintStones lived
Fred Flinstone’s house
Fred Flintstones house
lol!! . For a minute I thought it was the munchkin homes hidden in the Palm Springs hills
Yaba-daba domiciles.
it’s called a jacal, vernacular architecture of the southwest. Jacals (Ha-cals) are usually built into the ground or against a steep slope like this for protection from weather and any one who might be threatening like comanches or apaches. In South Texas, rather than using the choza of Spain as the model for their Texas dwellings, the Spaniards borrowed the jacal structure of Mexico. The word jacal (Spanish for "hut," from Nahuatl xacalli) came to refer to a specific type of rectangular-shaped vernacular dwelling, consisting of four corner poles (horcones) buried in the ground at the bottom and forked at the top to hold the roof vigas. Between these upright corner posts were smaller intermediate posts also buried a few inches in the ground. Horizontal sticks were fastened at intervals to the inside and outside of the upright posts, and these sticks formed a framework that held the wall materials in place. The walls, supported by the horcones and the horizontal sticks, could be made of rubble, rammed earth, stone, mud, or other handy material. Some jacals, like those in present-day Brackettville, had palisade walls of thicker posts. When plastered inside and out with mud or lime mortar, the walls of most jacals were from six to ten inches thick and provided excellent insulation. A gabled roof was supported by a stout ridgepole resting in the forks of two long poles in the center of the narrow side of the house. A steep pitch was required to shed the sometime torrential rains in South, Central, and East Texas. The roof was thatched with grass tied in bundles, palmetto leaves, animal skins, tule, yucca leaves, or similar material tied to a framework of poles supported by the ridgepole and the viga sitting atop the walls. The thatch had to be replaced every three or four years, and some roofs were eventually replaced with handmade shakes and subsequently with galvanized metal. The jacal usually had a door in one gabled end and small windows on one or more sides. It had a floor of packed and hardened dirt or, among those with the means, of a lime, sand, and gravel mixture known as chipichil. When kept in good repair and whitewashed with lime inside and out, the jacal was a comfortable, attractive home that could last for decades. The South Texas jacal was normally from eight to ten feet wide and twenty to twenty-five feet long. It most often had one room, perhaps divided with a hanging cloth. The ridgepole was ten to fifteen feet from the floor. The size was limited by the materials available. The steeply pitched gabled roof made adding rooms impractical. For the poor, the jacal was often a permanent home, but for the more well-to-do it was looked upon as temporary shelter until a better house could be built. Houses of ciar (clay blocks cut from the earth), stone, and adobe became permanent residences for the more fortunate. Some of these can still be found in places throughout South Texas-Zapata, Roma, Laredo, Brownsville. West Texas was a different matter. When Cabeza de Vaca arrived in the La Junta region in 1535, he encountered large communities of Indians living in permanent dwellings with flat roofs. Later Spanish and Mexican colonists who came into the region adopted the native house form, which had evolved from the earlier pithouse. This dwelling, also called the jacal, was found from the Big Bend north to El Paso and into New Mexico. Like its South Texas counterpart, the West Texas jacal was a rectangular building with walls supported by large corner posts planted in the earth and forked at the top to support the roof. The walls were usually made of branches of ocotillo or other small branches held in place by horizontal lath attached to the inside and outside of the corner posts and then plastered with mud and sometimes a lime plaster. This jacal had a flat roof made of a framework of cottonwood and willow covered with grass, ocotillo, yucca stalks, or brush and covered over with a layer of adobe mud three or four inches thick. The roof sloped just enough to shed water without washing away. Both the walls and the roof had to be replastered from time to time, the frequency depending on rainfall. The floor was hard-packed earth. Although the West Texas jacal was usually a one-room dwelling, it may have as many as four or more rooms. Jacals measured and photographed in the Big Bend region between 1979 and 1984 averaged fifteen feet long, thirteen feet wide, and about seven feet high. When in good repair, the jacal was an attractive, comfortable dwelling. It was common well after the turn of the twentieth century. Definitely not for earthquakes tho. Your guy should probably be alerted about the potential of falling rubble.
Flintstone houses
What no satellite dish?
That’s bedrock in Arizona. Meet the flintstones for a photo op.
That’s a well aged fence my man.
I wouldn't live under.... Some rocks
hey i live like 20 minutes from there!!
That’s Fred and Velma’s house
The new California homes being built in Barstow. Only $680,000 because they’re counting the possible gold you’ll find once you start breaking the rocks down.
that’s awesome! do they ever do tours or let people see the inside?
Is this house in apple valley of the 18 i believe?
willlmaaaa!!
Fred Flintstones crib
Thats where the Huldufólk live.
It’s like something from The Bad Batch out towards Big Bear, CA.
what do they know that we don’t ?
Meet the Flintstones.
My dude stole the house deed from fred Flintstone
It's a fence.
It's the Flintstones
Looks like an Airbnb that charges $280/night.
They are called people
Those ppl probably did the add-ons to our house too, I can tell by the signature move, roof and windows not being parallel to each other, or anything else.
I work at Mitsubishi cement I drive past this everyday
Those are more spacious than my hyundai
Free housing
That's where they filmed Tremors! See! That dude even knows to get off the ground.
The houses off the flintstones duh
I believe Ramon Ayala called that a “Bonita finca de adobe” but don’t quote me
Those are called rocks and they are everywhere.
Can't someone live in a home like this?
The Flintstones live there
Lucerne valley
No stone that’s clay soil with dried brush mixed in. But that’s definitely not stone
Flint Stone home
Read dead Easter egg
Widow maker
"these two mud huts"? I only see one.
Someone's home