About Merkis Palms, the town that time remembers but people forget

In the beginning

Founded by Marshall and Maisy Merkis, whose conestoga wagon inexplicably became separated from a wagon train on the emigrant trail during the 1880s and ended up crossing the Mojave Desert and into the San Bernardino Valley, where the axel broke and the oxen died on the land of the Yakwee Indians, Merkis Palms was first home to countless grapefruit orchards, then a nuclear power plant (which unfortunately suffered major melt-down).

Residents

Various residents of Merkis Palms appear on the SUNSET REVIEW, either as regular contributors or as special interviewees.  These include such individuals as: Percival Heavens, owner-operator of the Merkis Palms Mini Drive-Thru Museum and President of the Merkis Palms Historical Society. John J. Jasper, the man who provides a ceaseless font of questions for the plethora of answers that plague us in day-to-day living. Lolla Nebulla, astrologer estraordinaire, whose astrological forecasts guide SUNSET REVIEW listeners in the large and small details of their mundane but otherwise ordinary lives. Walter Withersgap, culture maven and President of Merkis Palms Society for the Preservation of Culture and Purification of Bodily Fluids (the M-P-S-F-T-P-O-C-A-P-O-B-F)

Businesses

While Merkis Palms may not possess a conspicuously thriving commercial community, there are various businesses located in the town, many of which are sponsors of the SUNSET REVIEW, including: The Sparkle Plenty Rock Shop, Jimmy Wingtip proprietor, where the stones are smooth and cool and sometimes glow in the dark. The Sunnyside-up Tanning Salon and Breakfast Buffet, Proprietors Wayne and Susan Patroni, where it pays to get your rays and the food is good. The Cosmic Center for Universal One-Ness, where I and Thou become Them. Shady Rest Mortuary and Drive-through Orchard, your one-stop place for picking or planting them. Memory Lane thrift shop, Mavis Norvis proprietor, where other people's losses become your gains.

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