Bodie - II

As the town decays, there are juxtapositions of things from different eras. A wagon from the 19th century and a truck from the 20th hep create a tableau of this mining town.

Bodie

Driving east of the Sierras we find a place that is cooler and clearly wetter than the central valley and the western slopes of the mountains. At the end of a narrow paved road followed by a drive on dirt we come to the ghost town of Bodie.

Above is the Methodist Church built in 1882. There used to also be a Catholic Church as well (also from 1882) but it burned in 1928.

Although it once held as many at 10,000 people, only about 5% of the structures from its heyday still stand. Multiple fires have seen to that.