Bodie

Location Description

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Driving the 10 mile dirt road to Bodie: a former mining...
Kind of a surreal cityscape and weather.
Mining equipment in the middle of nowhere. There are no...
Protestant church.
Part of an old GMC car or truck.
In its heyday, Bodie had 10,000 residents, a gridded...
Bodie is now a California State Park and is kept in a...
They don't build them like they used to. Now it would...
Mom, a chaise for your living room!
Kitchen in need of spring cleaning.
An old saw mill in Bodie. Keeping enough wood cut to...
Very surreal. These buildings represent about 5% of the...
Monica checking out an "arrested decay" house. Guess it...
Piles of junk in the mechanic's shop.
Apparently the sight of Bodie's once-thriving red light district.
The old distillery cellar.
Stable where the horses were kept.
Monica wandering around Chinatown.
The Standard Mine and Mill.
Apparently you can drive this road another 20 miles to...
The jail and horse stable.
Blacksmithing shop.
Something fell apart.
The bank vault.
Monica photographing the ruins of the bank.
Old saloon. Hard to imagine some of this wasn't staged,...
Barber shop!
Some neat shingling over the saloon.
Gas station.
Calendars from 1934 and 1937 in the office of the general store.
Cool sign. Without the bullet holes this would probably...
General store, remarkably well preserved.
Old cans for sale at the general store.
Monica trying to figure out which outhouse was actually...
Not this one.
I think Monica's looking in the window of the house...
Cool looking truck, with the International Order of Odd...
The flattest house I saw.
Monica in Bodie.
Cool looking truck.
Hotel and IOOF, which was later used as an athletic center.
They had their own newspaper and everything!
Is this the way things used to be done?
One of the hotels was eventually repurposed as a morgue.
A cistern I guess.
Cool old car.
What a sweet ride. They don't make cars this neat...
The cemetary was the last stop on our tour. I found it...
We got back to the car and it started raining again....
On the way back to Mono Lake.
The desert makes dramatic colors when it is wet.
And Monica's very dirty car got a free car wash. It...