Bodie Ghost Town
Dec 20, 2017 22:59:30 #
On our way back from visiting our son and his wife in San Francisco a few months ago, we took a detour and spent a day in Bodie, CA. Thought I would share a few pics from that visit. Bodie is an old gold mining town near Mono Lake, CA. It's mining peaked in the mid 1870's with a population of about 10,000 residents. By the turn of the century, mining had declined significantly and only a few residents remained. It was fully abandoned in 1944 when the fed govt stopped all non-essential mining unrelated to war materials. There were a couple of large fires that burned down most of the town, but the mine and a few residence and business buildings remain. It is now a State Park and is maintained in a state of arrested decay, i.e. will repair a wall that collapses but only to the state it was in before the collapse.
I don't know what truck is shown in images 2 and 3. The truck in images 4 and 5 is a 1927 Dodge Graham.
Hope you enjoy the images.
Mike
I don't know what truck is shown in images 2 and 3. The truck in images 4 and 5 is a 1927 Dodge Graham.
Hope you enjoy the images.
Mike
Remnants of Main Street
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The stories this old truck could tell
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Old Truck
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Gassing up on Main Street
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Cruzing the hood
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The local Church (Methodist, I believe)
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A room with a view
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Remnants of an affluent home
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Peeping thru the bedroom window
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SalvageDiver wrote:
On our way back from visiting our son and his wife... (show quote)
Fantastic images!!!!!
The truck in images 2 & 4 is a 1940 Ford probably early production. The V8 marking on the hood is what led me to Ford, googled 1940 ford 1 ton images to find it.
I didn't know Dodge Bros. and Graham Motors were in business together, learn something new everyday.
Dec 21, 2017 02:34:07 #
My daughter wanted to get married in that church but we opted for Saint Annes in Columbia another beautiful gold rush church. Nice photos
SalvageDiver wrote:
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Love Bodie and you did a great job. You point of view is differance from the run of the mill shots. good work.
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