Talk:California City, California

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2007. construction is starting to take off in downtown Cal. city

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I added a history section to this article as well as some references, links, and other information. I removed the stub tag, as the article seems fairly complete for such a small city. In the demographics section, an anonymous user had changed the population to 9,098, which contradicts the first sentence of the article and the data that I could find on the Census Bureau site, so I changed the population back to 8,385. If someone thinks the 2000 Census population was 9,098, please provide your source or explain your reasoning here before changing it back. PubliusFL 19:16, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

I happen to live in this city and both of the posters on this talk page are wrong, as well as the page itself. The prison only employees over 300 employees which wouldnt be "Much of the cities workforce." I am actually sort of shocked that people who might not even live there still come up with their own assumptions. around 10,000 people live here, and 3% of them doesnt count for MUCH of the workforce. This thing really needs to be fixed or left alone by people who do not have the correct information.--129.198.241.62 19:29, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

I *did* live in Cal City for a few years. Just down Neuralia from the shopping center with the grocery store. 3% of the population (which would be something like 5% of the workforce) is pretty significant for a single employer. And "much of the city's workforce" referred to the prison and Edwards AFB *together*. Surely that is indisputable. The prison must be the largest employer located *in* Cal City, eh? PubliusFL 17:14, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

I looked up "supermarket". No clear definition. Having had a girlfriend from there, I've been there many times and have some familiarity with CC, and have been to the local...well...market? many times. Is someone trying to say CC is ripe for a Vons? Maybe. A Wal-Mart? Doubt it. "Business opportunity" is a relative term and should be approached with caution. I think CC works pretty well with the market they have. I doubt they could support a 100,000 sq-ft "supermarket." Middlenamefrank 06:39, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

• My deepest apologies to anyone who lives in, works in, or even has to travel through this desolate morgue-like city. Cal-City is a real life version of the fictional Radiator Springs of the Disney move Cars and could possibly be the inspiration of the Radiator Springs idea... There is a reason that NO county, state, or federal highways enter this place. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.168.7.243 (talk) 21:08, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Removed the line about the whole as of 2007 there are no grocery stores and hospital but because that line really has no place being there namely because the first half is wrong. As a resident of California City I can tell you we do, it's actually called the "Market" it's a decent sized building not huge but not too small that has just about everything you would need from a grocery store now grant it the prices may be a little high but we do in fact have one. As for the hospital i don't see the point in having a lone line of text saying how far it is to a hospital. IF maybe it was worked into a more detailed description of the city then that would be OK. --Emrys Pennent (talk) 19:55, 18 March 2008 (UTC)