James Dean piled up his Porsche and killed himself in 1955 on CA46 east of Paso Robles, CA. It was a two car accident on a very lonely road in the middle of nowhere. One of the ways he has been memorialized is with these much larger than life cutouts in a gas station lot - still in the middle of nowhere - where Dean had made his last stop.
Before arriving from the west you drive through miles of crops and, mostly, cattle grazing and unplowed land.
At the intersection of CA46 and CA33 you see this huge pouty James.
Compare to the truck for size.
And right at the corner is about a 20 foot cutout reminiscent of his role in "Giant".
Beyond "nowhere" are miles of oil fields until you reach I-5 at Lost Hills. Of course, I-5 didn't exist in 1956. James would have driven from LA on Hwy 99 or up the coast on 101.
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