Abandoned House (Bodie State Park, CA 1990)
Bodie, located in the foothills of the Sierra Mountains near Yosemite, was the best known gold-rush boomtown. In its heyday around 1878, Bodie had more than 65 saloons and almost as many brothels and dance halls; 2,000 buildings holding over 10,000 people, and a dozen lawyers. Since 1962, California has preserved Bodie in a state of "suspended decay." The room pictured here, in one of the few remaining buildings, looks exactly as it was in 1932 when the owner left to escape a fire that devastated what was left of this once thriving town.
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Copyright Stephen Borko, 2005
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