Barstow is a city in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
The population was 21,119 at the 2000 census.
Barstow is a major regional transportation center. Several major highways including Interstate 15
and Interstate 40 converge in the city.
It is the site of a large rail classification yard, belonging to the BNSF Railway.
The Union Pacific Railroad also runs through town on trackage rights on BNSF's main line to
Daggett 10 miles east, where it heads to Salt Lake City, and the BNSF heads to Chicago.
Barstow is home to Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow and is the closest city to
Fort Irwin Military Reservation.
Route 66 ran through Barstow and the town's name is mentioned in the lyrics to the song,
"Route 66" and in the Black Eyed Peas song "Like That" as Will.I.Am raps that he "(has) a
style that's way out like Barstow" commenting on Barstow's distance from the BEP's
home city of Los Angeles.
Barstow is also mentioned in Hunter S. Thompson's novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,
and in numerous other films and television shows.
Johnny Carson of the Tonight Show mentioned Barstow, CA, calling it Barstool.
Sheryl Crow also makes reference to Barstow, CA in her song Leaving Las Vegas...
"Used to be I could drive up to Barstow for the night Find some crossroad trucker To demonstrate
his might But these days it seems Nowhere is far enough away So Im leaving las vegas today"
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