Skidoo
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Skidoo is a ghost town located in Death Valley National Park, California.
It knew a brief fame in the first decade of the 20th century when gold had been found in the area. Few years later however it was abandoned, and now no standing structure remains. Its desert location is sometimes still visited by serious ghost town aficionados.
The name Skidoo comes from the expression 23 Skidoo, a slang expression of the time, for which various origins (http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/393450.html) have been suggested.
23 Skidoo is also the name of an early 1980s British industrial/experimental/funk band.
Ski-doo (with the hyphen) is the brand name for the snowmobiles produced by Bombardier inc..
Skidoo was also the name of a film starring Jackie Gleason, Groucho Marx, and Carol Channing. It came out in 1968 and it was a flop. It was also Groucho Marx's last movie.