A crucifix-shaped swimming pool crumbles in the desert sun.
“It’s a special place,” Dr. Terry McGlynn tells me. “There are scorpions at night, foxes, coyotes, rabbits and big-horned sheep wandering around. It’s absolutely stunning.”
“Geologists come from all over the world,” McGlynn says. “It offers a really unique window into the history of time.” “You never see them. They sit on the bottom of the lake,” McGlynn says. “Once every few years, a group of people monitor them to make sure they're there and OK.” One repeated grift of Springer’s — may it be while teaching courses, offering samples of his miracle foods or later inviting visitors to bathe in his desert pool — was to ask for zero cash upfront but bait-and-switch attendees during the proceedings to get their money. Many of his lectures would pause halfway through so Springer could collect “donations” and also offer private sessions later that day for $25 a pop.
Maybe to escape the AMA or those seeking his tax dollars or refunds for aborted courses, in the early 1940s, Springer moved to Los Angeles.he once recalled He coined the site “Zzyzx” as a gag of sorts — so he would always have “the last word in health.” The name was, resulting in the iconic green sign on I-5.
The site mostly bussed in pensioners from Southern California and could welcome up to 140 guests, all seeking to be cleansed in the desert by Springer’s godly advice, hot mineral water and health cures. And for some of those who visited the site, it seemed to work.New York Times story Many of the advertisements for the resort claim the cleansing water that sprung from the underground river into the cross-shaped pool and baths was naturally “warm.”“He used to heat it up and say it was ‘hot springs,’” McGlynn laughs. “He had a diesel generator to heat the water and say ‘ooh it’s hot mineral springs.’”an archival recording of his radio show“We have this lovely 12,000-acre estate here that belongs to God,” Springer announces.
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