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Plaster City, California

Plaster City, California is a company town with a large gypsum quarry and plant owned by United States Gypsum (USG) in Imperial County, California. It is located 17 miles (27 km) west of El Centro, at an elevation of 105 feet, a two-hour drive south of Palm Springs, or a 90 minute drive east from San Diego.

Publicity and media
In the 1963 film ''It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World'', Ethel Merman's character is seen talking on a pay telephone to her son, saying that she was "in a place called Plaster City." In 1993 Plaster City was briefly the locale of the fully restored Eureka locomotive, one of the last narrow gauge steam locomotives from the height of railroad development in the West. ==References==
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