Bodie, The Ghost Town
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Every place in this world has a story… sometimes beautiful, sometimes sad, every abandoned place becomes a memory, a memory that will soon be forgotten if we do not try to keep it alive and discover more of its secrets.
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Bodie is a genuine California gold-mining ghost town from the late 1800’s, located in the eastern slopes of the Sierra, close to the Nevada border. Due to an extremely wild climate, the forgotten city can be very very hot while summer and covered with snow in winter.
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Its story began in 1859, when William S. Body (Bodey) found gold here. The mining camp grew slowly from 1860 to the mid-1870s, became a boom town in 1877 and by 1879, it had a population of about 10,000 with 2,000 buildings. Sadly, the boom was over in four short years and by 1882, Bodie fall into decline.
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At that time, the town of Bodie bustled with families, robbers, miners, store owners, gunfighters and prostitutes. It seemd to be known more for its wild living than for its big gold resources.
There was entertainment for every taste: more than 65 saloons in town,’houses of ill repute’, gambling halls and opium dens. In 1932, after a big fire, almost the entire population finally left Bodie.
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Photo Courtesy: Mario Polterer, Debra Rostrom and Jon Sullivan
Sources: http://www.bodie.com/ - an extremely interesting website.
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Wonderful photos Alexandra - where do you find them?
Some of them are from Bodie’s page.
“Sources: http://www.bodie.com/ - an extremely interesting website.”
(I usually ask for permission but this time I was so thrilled that I forgot this step.
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I chose a few because I found them really interesting… but there are many many others . It’s worth visiting both, the website and the ghost town.
And the biggest part of the pictures you see here are free pictures from http://www.public-domain-photos.com/ taken by Jon Sullivan.
Enjoy
Bodie, orasul fantoma [EN]…
Bodie este un oras fantoma american adevarat, fiind un fost oras al celor care extrageau aur din mine. Acum este complet parasit, el pastrandu-se la fel ca atunci cand era locuit….