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Bombay Beach isn’t abandoned—it’s remembering. Once a booming resort town on the shores of the Salton Sea, Bombay Beach thrived in the 1950s and ’60s when celebrities vacationed here and marinas buzzed with life. Then rising salinity, ecological collapse, and flooding pushed residents away, leaving behind a landscape suspended in time. What remains today is haunting and magnetic: rusted trailers, skeletal fish lining the shore, art installations rising from decay, and a quiet community that neve

Marine Drive, Mumbai. Late 1950s or early 60s. Pre-tetrapods ...In the 1990s, Bombay's Marine Drive was already the iconic "Queen's Necklace," a bustling, banana-shaped promenade along the Arabian Sea, lined with striking Art Deco buildings, palm trees, and popular for evening strolls, sea breeze, and iconic Bollywood shots, though evolving from quieter times into a busy thoroughfare, a key civic space for locals and a symbol of the city's vibrant life, with constant activity from the waterfront