ABOUT 40-45 YEARS AGO THIS INSTALLATION WAS ONCE A THRIVING MILITARY AIR FORCE BASE WHERE TOP GUN FIGHTERS PILOTS WERE TRAINED. IT WAS A CITY WITHIN A CITY IN VICTORVILLE CALIFORNIA. THE " BRAC " BASE RE-ALINEMENT COMMISSION DECIDED TO CLOSE IT DOWN DUE TO BUDGET CUTS. THIS PLACE WOULD MAKE A PERFECT PLACE FOR DRUG ADDICTED HOMELESS PEOPLE IN NEED OF A RECOVERY INSTITUTION. THIS IS A VERY LARGE INSTALLATION WITH A LOT POSITIVE POTENTIAL IN ERADICATING THE HOMELESS PROBLEM THAT HAS PERMIATED THROUGHOUT LOS ANGELES AND CALIFORNIA. THERE USE TO BE A PIZZA PLACE RIGHT NEXT TO THE BASE WHERE I STOPPED NUMEROUS TIME TO EAT THERE WITH THE JET PILOTS WHEN THEY WERE OFF TRAINING SESSIONS IN UNIFORM. IT IS A SHAME TO SEE THIS OLD BASE DETERIORATED LIKE THIS WHEN IT COULD BE PUT TO SUCH GREAT USE THAT IS SO BADLY NEEDED PRESENTLY FOR THE HOMELESS POPULATION.
The pizza place has been gone. But the donut shop is still there. As for helping out homeless drug addicts. Forget about that, there’s 3 weed dispensaries within 1 mile of the base.
Giving this to the homeless WOULDNT WORK. It would be DESTROYED as BAD if NOT WORSE than it is NOW!!! And CRIME and KILLINGS would run RAMPANT!!! It’s just TOO UNREALISTIC of an idea or option.
This may seem not that long ago to u, but in commercial realestate terms ,this is ancient ruins. Also the asbestos issues were not discovered until arounnd the time the base closed, so dont imply that asbestos was allowed for military personell. Its dangers were not known at that time.
When the Base closed, it was supposed to turn into low income housing. Back then, the sheriff’s department was really small. The city was afraid of criminals coming from San Bernardino and Los Angeles taking over. So it just stands there going to waste. The funny part is. Right across the street from the defunct base is a federal prison full of criminals. Less than 5 miles from that is 2 more prisons. One is for immigrants and the other is private prison for citizens. In other words, they knew that they couldn’t strive without the money criminals bring to the area. By the way, they opened up a 2 schools on that property in the old buildings.
Fascinating videos!!! George Air Force Base (AFB) in Victorville, California is considered one of the most contaminated military sites in the United States due to toxic exposure from routine aircraft maintenance tasks. The base was active from 1941-1992 and was added to the EPA's Superfund list in 1990 after the discovery of over 30 pollutants in the soil and groundwater: Jet fuel Trichloroethylene Perfluorinated chemicals Dioxins Chlorinated pesticides Semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs) Total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPE) Asbestos
Somewhere near the end of the video used to be what was called 707! I was a all night cafeteria where we would get hot sandwiches etc.. while on duty patroling the base as a Security Policemen.
Makes you wonder...... why is the homeless problem so much worse today than it's ever been? Do we have less resources, less money, or is it something else?
I was there working at the hospital when it closed. Everyone was being poisoned for years because of the serious contamination of the aquifer the base sat on.
what part of the hospital did you work at? I love exploring there. Is it true there’s an older part of the hospital and a newer part of was it all built at the same time?? Was there a morgue ?
Circa 1984, I was the contractor who provided the excavation for the huge, subterranean, reinforced concrete, “WAR CONTROL ROOM”. After the room was built, I backed filled the perimeter walls and buried the entire structure.
Once around 1971 or so my Seabee father was flying into Pt. Mugu from a Vietnam deployment and the fog was so thick on the coast his C-141 was diverted out to this Air Base. I remember driving from our house in Oxnard with the passenger door open and us telling Mom where the "fog line" was on the road till we made it to Camarillo and up the grade and out of the fog. It was Dad's last trip to Vietnam and my Mom having lived through so many others she was very happy to have him back home.
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Thanks for sharing!!❤ your so right about homeless being able to use some of the stuff there at the golf course and so on!
ABOUT 40-45 YEARS AGO THIS INSTALLATION WAS ONCE A THRIVING MILITARY AIR FORCE BASE WHERE TOP GUN FIGHTERS PILOTS WERE TRAINED. IT WAS A CITY WITHIN A CITY IN VICTORVILLE CALIFORNIA. THE " BRAC " BASE RE-ALINEMENT COMMISSION DECIDED TO CLOSE IT DOWN DUE TO BUDGET CUTS. THIS PLACE WOULD MAKE A PERFECT PLACE FOR DRUG ADDICTED HOMELESS PEOPLE IN NEED OF A RECOVERY INSTITUTION. THIS IS A VERY LARGE INSTALLATION WITH A LOT POSITIVE POTENTIAL IN ERADICATING THE HOMELESS PROBLEM THAT HAS PERMIATED THROUGHOUT LOS ANGELES AND CALIFORNIA. THERE USE TO BE A PIZZA PLACE RIGHT NEXT TO THE BASE WHERE I STOPPED NUMEROUS TIME TO EAT THERE WITH THE JET PILOTS WHEN THEY WERE OFF TRAINING SESSIONS IN UNIFORM. IT IS A SHAME TO SEE THIS OLD BASE DETERIORATED LIKE THIS WHEN IT COULD BE PUT TO SUCH GREAT USE THAT IS SO BADLY NEEDED PRESENTLY FOR THE HOMELESS POPULATION.
The pizza place has been gone. But the donut shop is still there. As for helping out homeless drug addicts. Forget about that, there’s 3 weed dispensaries within 1 mile of the base.
Giving this to the homeless WOULDNT WORK. It would be DESTROYED as BAD if NOT WORSE than it is NOW!!! And CRIME and KILLINGS would run RAMPANT!!! It’s just TOO UNREALISTIC of an idea or option.
Millions and millions of wasted. TAX
Payer dollars. SAD
This may seem not that long ago to u, but in commercial realestate terms ,this is ancient ruins.
Also the asbestos issues were not discovered until arounnd the time the base closed, so dont imply that asbestos was allowed for military personell. Its dangers were not known at that time.
When the Base closed, it was supposed to turn into low income housing. Back then, the sheriff’s department was really small. The city was afraid of criminals coming from San Bernardino and Los Angeles taking over. So it just stands there going to waste. The funny part is. Right across the street from the defunct base is a federal prison full of criminals. Less than 5 miles from that is 2 more prisons. One is for immigrants and the other is private prison for citizens. In other words, they knew that they couldn’t strive without the money criminals bring to the area. By the way, they opened up a 2 schools on that property in the old buildings.
Fascinating videos!!!
George Air Force Base (AFB) in Victorville, California is considered one of the most contaminated military sites in the United States due to toxic exposure from routine aircraft maintenance tasks. The base was active from 1941-1992 and was added to the EPA's Superfund list in 1990 after the discovery of over 30 pollutants in the soil and groundwater:
Jet fuel
Trichloroethylene
Perfluorinated chemicals
Dioxins
Chlorinated pesticides
Semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs)
Total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPE)
Asbestos
Somewhere near the end of the video used to be what was called 707! I was a all night cafeteria where we would get hot sandwiches etc.. while on duty patroling the base as a Security Policemen.
My brother and his wife stationed/lived here in 1968-70. Thanks for posting.
I was Security Police 1969 - 1972
immIgrants could live there😮
Makes you wonder...... why is the homeless problem so much worse today than it's ever been? Do we have less resources, less money, or is it something else?
Population density is the main reason.
I was there in 1965
It’s contaminated do your research people
I was there working at the hospital when it closed. Everyone was being poisoned for years because of the serious contamination of the aquifer the base sat on.
I worker for county fire and we transported military patience there all the time. Miss sun shine girl that has the yellow jeep was stationed there.
what part of the hospital did you work at? I love exploring there. Is it true there’s an older part of the hospital and a newer part of was it all built at the same time?? Was there a morgue ?
Circa 1984, I was the contractor who provided the excavation for the huge, subterranean, reinforced concrete, “WAR CONTROL ROOM”. After the room was built, I backed filled the perimeter walls and buried the entire structure.
Why the graffiti?
Once around 1971 or so my Seabee father was flying into Pt. Mugu from a Vietnam deployment and the fog was so thick on the coast his C-141 was diverted out to this Air Base. I remember driving from our house in Oxnard with the passenger door open and us telling Mom where the "fog line" was on the road till we made it to Camarillo and up the grade and out of the fog. It was Dad's last trip to Vietnam and my Mom having lived through so many others she was very happy to have him back home.
It was 1990 when the government did a check on what was underdone bases all over the usa.
Why did the base close down and what year did it close down.
could definately do without the right wing comments
This just goes to show no one is aware of the contamination