James Dean's last stop before he died in a car crash was at Blackwell's Corner, a gas station in rural Kern County. His memory isn't the draw it once was.
James Dean died at the age of 24 when he crashed his Porsche 550 Spyder. The car and its parts have been connected to many mysterious deaths ever since.
Located 160 miles southeast of Monterey, Blackwells Corner, an unincorporated town near the easternmost edge of Kern County, is so tiny it hasn’t been included in the last two census counts.
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