El Centro Shorts
Description: The El Centro Imperials was an independent professional baseball team based out of El Centro, California. The team started play in 1947 in the Sunset League and was folded in 1952. Another team, the Imperial Valley Brahmas played in El Centro in 1995 as part of the Golden State League and the Imperials were revived on April 3, 2009, as one of the four charter members of the new Arizona Summer League, an instructional summer professional baseball league affiliated with the Golden Baseball League. That version of the team was managed by former Los Angeles Dodgers player Mike Marshall, but lasted just the one season.
Description: El Centro is a city in Imperial County, California that is located 113 miles from San Diego and less than 20 miles from the Mexican city of Mexicali. El Centro is the most populous city in the Imperial Valley, and also the most populous U.S. city to lie entirely below sea level at −42 feet. The city is a gateway to several major attractions, so whether you're heading out to the Imperial Sand Dunes, the Salton Sea, or even the Carrizo Gorge Wilderness, you're going to need some provisions. Located right off of California State Route 86 in the heart of El Centro, House of Spirits was one of the better places to gather necessary supplies for decades, and ensured that any outing had plenty of everything... and lots of ice.
Description: The '80s were a great time for over the top custom four-wheel drive vehicles and while there were plenty of shops in the greater SoCal area to get your ride tricked out, there were none greater than El Centro's Ultimate Off Road. While other guys were just adding lift kits and chrome bits, UOR was building rigs that actually performed off road as well as they looked, so if you were rolling in a UOR build, you were doing so with confidence as they were as bulletproof as they come.
