Dabeel
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Great Photos onekick!
I've been there once in the late 1980's and it was very cool to experience that place in the middle of nowhere.
Most of all those buildings were redone after it became a park as mentioned on their website:
Bodie suffered two devastating fires in 1892 and 1932 that together destroyed over 90% of the buildings. A few residents stayed until the 1940s after which the site lay abandoned for 20 years until the creation of the state park in 1962.
There was digging done there between the dormant years because I have an old bottle book that has photos of bottles dug from there. I'll post a picture of the book:
Blumenstein, Lynn: Old Time Bottles Found in Ghost Towns, 1966. Old Time Bottle Publishing Co., Salem OR
I don't have this book anymore as I lent it to someone and have never seen it since[]
Doug
I've been there once in the late 1980's and it was very cool to experience that place in the middle of nowhere.
Most of all those buildings were redone after it became a park as mentioned on their website:
Bodie suffered two devastating fires in 1892 and 1932 that together destroyed over 90% of the buildings. A few residents stayed until the 1940s after which the site lay abandoned for 20 years until the creation of the state park in 1962.
There was digging done there between the dormant years because I have an old bottle book that has photos of bottles dug from there. I'll post a picture of the book:
Blumenstein, Lynn: Old Time Bottles Found in Ghost Towns, 1966. Old Time Bottle Publishing Co., Salem OR
I don't have this book anymore as I lent it to someone and have never seen it since[]
Doug