In bringing the rain, Hollywood-style, to Llano del Rio, Just comments on the hubris of the settlement. Scenes of the rainstorm and a woman attempting to rebuild the walls are mixed with shots of underground pipes, presumably channeling water toward ...
Llano del Rio, now nothing more than desert ruins, was once meant to be a thriving Socialist commune. How it came to be, and then not be, is a fascinating story that begins in early 1900s Los Angeles. The modern-day ruins of Llano del Rio can be found ...
On May 1, 1914, the Socialist colony of Llano Del Rio was founded in the Antelope Valley, about 70 miles northeast of Los Angeles, on the southern edge of the Mojave Desert. It lasted about 3½ years, and at its peak more than a thousand people lived there.
In 1942, the English writer Aldous Huxley and his wife moved to the small community of Llano in the Mohave Desert, north of Los Angeles. Llano turned out to be the former site of Llano del Rio, a utopian socialist community founded in 1914, which had ...