Letsemgo's photostream

I cropped out most of the sky in order to give a more panoramic effect of what Bodie looks like today arriving from the original road. There's only 5% of the buildings left due to a couple fires with the last being in 1932 started by a lil girl playing with matches.. At it's peak in 1879 there were over 10,000 people who came for the Gold. "Good bye God I'm going to Bodie" was a phrase known T/o the west during it's hey day of wickedness and lawlessness with vigilante killings daily...the last guy to hang for murder was in the jail when the vigilante gang went in with a witness and all he said was "Yup, I seen him do it", so they dragged him out with the Sheriff just sitting there, the town bell was rung and they lynched him...

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I had to put my lens right on the old dirty glass to get these shots off :)

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I got lucky..they opened the road out to Bodi yesterday after being closed for the winter. It's about a 14 mile paved road drive then about 6 miles unpaved off Highway 395, just north of Mono Lake..It was pretty mucky with the melting snow but beautiful none the less :) Pretty interesting old Ghost Town :)

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