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Bagdad is a ghost town in the Mojave Desert of San Bernardino County, California, United States, located east of Barstow along the former U.S. Route 66.[1]
The town was founded in 1883 when the railway line between Barstow and Needles was built.
Once a thriving town along famous Route 66, Bagdad was mostly bypassed by the coming of Interstate 40 to the north. Its fame, however, spread beyond its bypassing. The Bagdad Café was located there and became the setting of both a popular novel and a motion picture (live action for which was actually shot at the Sidewinder Cafe, currently renamed to "Bagdad Café", in Newberry Springs). The action of the motion picture actually takes place in a fictional Bagdad in Arizona.
Bagdad also holds the record for the longest dry streak in United States history with 767 straight days without rain, from October 3, 1912 to November 8, 1914.
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- Alan Hensher, Ghost Towns of the Mojave Desert: A Concise and Illustrated Guide, California Classics Books, Los Angeles (1991) ISBN 18793950
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