Community Of Desert Center California Leo Buddy Pergson

These are my personal collection of my old memories of my family living and working in Community of Desert Center Café Desert Center California and at the Majestic Café Blythe Palo Verde California/

Some people passing through I-10 Freeway,, looking off into the distance- on the north side now abandoned hiway 60-70- People often refer to Desert Center as a abandoned "Desert Ghost Town" and taking photos of the trashed out old crumbling Desert Center travelers lodges across from the Community of Desert Center across Hiway 60-70,, that may be true to the people traveling through Desert Center,, I find great beauty in the HD/ Quality photos of Desert Center and simply refer... to Desert Center as the "Community of Desert Center" and just one my old home towns I grew up in for a short time with my family,, mom working at the old Desert Center Cafe' dad as a Hiway 60-70 Maintenance worker-we were just another family living desert Center and eventually moved on our way to Blythe California-Sometimes I think as a kid I didn't really appreciate the Mojave Desert as I would have now in my much older years-the I realize my memories of the Desert Sands-the Community Desert Bon fire gathering-lit up the desert night sky's- the old schools- the snakes-lizards-then I realize that I was very lucky with the time God gave me and my family to enjoy the Mojave Desert Center and Blythe Palo Verde California-just posting and reliving old memories of Desert Center and Blythe California- See more

Desert Center Kaiser Steel Railroad Car. A Kaiser Steel railroad car, existing in Desert Center, CA, once operated on the Eagle Mountain Railroad to the Kaiser Mines. Later moved to Desert Center south side Hiway 60-70- east side of Desert Center Cafe'. This deserted area is the birth place of one of the largest HMOs and most important influencers of modern Health Care, Kaiser Permanente. During the Great Depression, a young, enterprising surgeon named Sidney Garfield, MD o...pened up a hospital to support the workers of the Kaiser Mines and the Colorado River Aqueduct Project. It was his belief that no worker should be without health care, and he struggled to keep the hospital open when he bared the brunt of workers and their families who didn’t have insurance. For those who did, insurance companies didn’t pay the hospital in a timely fashion. Dr. Sidney Garfield walking in Mojave Desert, near site of his hospital. Image by kaiserpermanentehistory.org. In order to fix this, an insurance agent, Harold Hatch, was able to convince insurance companies to pay Dr. Garfield’s hospital per worker per day upfront. The money from this was collected from workers in the form of five cents per day per employee. If they wanted coverage off hours, it would be another five cents. If they wanted to cover their families, it would be another five. One of the original uses of the term, prepayment, can be found whistling in the historic winds of Desert Center.