Northbound emergency lane looks a little tight. May be hard to put a hole in the sign and not have your line of sight disrupted by a 18 wheeler rig blowing past you and your GT! Always liked the southbound exit sign better. More holes and more character.
Zzyzx was approved as a place name by the United States Board on Geographic Names on June 14, 1984. As is the case with the road, Zzyzx, California, is the USBGN's lexicographically last entry in the Highway Lexicon of the United State as place name. It has frequently been noted on lists of unusual place names.
In popular culture:
Desert Studies Center at Zzyzx Springs
A 1997 song called Zzyzx Scarecrow by the band Stavesacre from their album Absolutes.
A 2003 album called Zzyzx by Zeromancer.
A 2005 suspense film, Zzyzx, was directed by Richard Halpern.
A 2006 thriller film, Zyzzyx Road, starring Katherine Heigl.
Referred to as a major story segment in a novel by Michael Connelly The Narrows (part of the Harry Bosch series).
An interesting fact as you are driving by the exit signs:
Zyzzyx Road (/zəˈzɪzɪks/ zə-ZIZ-iks) is a 2006 American thriller film written and directed by John Penney. It stars Leo Grillo, Katherine Heigl, and Tom Sizemore. The film's name is an allusion to "Zzyzx Road", a rural road off of Interstate 15 in California's Mojave Desert, with the road's name slightly altered. It is a different film from the similarly named Zzyzx.
The film has gained a degree of notoriety due to being considered the lowest grossing movie in history with a domestic gross of $30 USD.
Production: Principal photography took place in the summer of 2005 and lasted 18 days, plus an additional two days for pickup scenes. The film was shot entirely on location in the Mojave Desert, in and around local mines. Sizemore and long-time friend Peter Walton, who worked as Sizemore's assistant, were arrested during the film's production for repeatedly failing drug tests while on probation. Police discovered that Walton had a warrant out for his arrest for child pornography distribution and was subsequently jailed. Sizemore was not jailed, making it possible for him to film his scenes.
Release and box office gross Zyzzyx Road was shown once a day at noon for six days (February 25 – March 2, 2006) at Highland Park Village Theater in Dallas. The limited release was deliberate: Grillo was uninterested in releasing the film domestically until it underwent foreign distribution, but needed to fulfill the U.S. release obligation required by the Screen Actors Guild for low-budget films, (films with budgets less than $2.5 million that are not for the direct-to-video market).
The strategy had the side effect of making the film at the time the lowest-grossing film of all time, earning just $30 at the box office from six patrons. Unofficially, its opening weekend netted $20. The $10 difference is due to a personal refund by Grillo to makeup artist Sheila Moore, who had worked on the film, and her friend.
