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