OK folks, as our adrenal glands get back to normal after the Muroc meet,
I thought I would toss out this tid bit of trivia about Muroc dry lake.
In 1910, a water stop for the railroad was constructed on the edge of
the lake near Mojave. Clifford Corum and his wife & brother established
a homestead nearby. They built a combination store and post office to
serve the few nearby residents. Their request to have the post office
named "Corum" was disallowed by the postal officials because a similar
name was already in use elsewhere in California. So, they simply
reversed the spelling of their name and came up with "Muroc"
Ed
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