Perhaps the oddest bit of our short time in Slab City was this purported "yard sale." Just tables and tables of dusty detritus with no one in sight. It made me imagine a wholly other economy exists there. And I suppose I wouldn't be too surprised if that's the case.

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Perhaps the oddest bit of our short time in Slab City was this purported "yard sale." Just tables and tables of dusty detritus with no one in sight. It made me imagine a wholly other economy exists there. And I suppose I wouldn't be too surprised if that's the case.

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