A few shots from a Fall road trip to the Eastern Sierra Nevada mountains.

[PenPusher]

Very interesting set of well taken photos, looks like it was a prosperous place one time, do you know what happened ?

[7.62lew]

Cool! Thanks for posting!

[tuco]

Hey, what were you doing in my kitchen?!

[usn ret]

Very interesting set of well taken photos, looks like it was a prosperous place one time, do you know what happened ?

See da link: Bodie, California - Wikipedia

If you do not want to see da link, then, The last mine closed in 1942, due to War Production Board order L-208, shutting down all nonessential gold mines in the United States during World War II. Mining never resumed after the war.

[cardinal43]

Nicely done. My wife and I spent an afternoon in Bodie late July this year. Really enjoyed it as it wasn't too busy. Surprised there weren't more people there.

[Kuzma]

It looks a bit like it was conserved for tourism purposes. It looks very cinematic. I think that abandoned towns, that are not cared for, have a more dirty look.
Great photos indeed!

[wgosma]

Very interesting set of well taken photos, looks like it was a prosperous place one time, do you know what happened ?

When all the gold was gone, people left!

Decline
Historical population
Census Pop. %±
1880 2,712 —
1890 1,595 −41.2%
1900 965 −39.5%
1910 698 −27.7%
1920 110 −84.2%
1930 228 107.3%
1940 90 −60.5%
1950 0 −100.0%
Est. 1951-2018 0
Source:[27]
The first signs of an official decline occurred in 1912 with the printing of the last Bodie newspaper, The Bodie Miner. In a 1913 book titled California Tourist Guide and Handbook: Authentic Description of Routes of Travel and Points of Interest in California, the authors, Wells and Aubrey Drury, described Bodie as a "mining town, which is the center of a large mineral region". They referred to two hotels and a railroad operating there.[28] In 1913, the Standard Consolidated Mine closed. Mining profits in 1914 were at a low of $6,821.[15] James S. Cain was buying up everything from the town lots to the mining claims, and reopened the Standard mill to former employees, which resulted in an over $100,000 profit in 1915.[7] However, this financial growth was not in time to stop the town's decline. In 1917, the Bodie Railway was abandoned and its iron tracks were scrapped.

The last mine closed in 1942, due to War Production Board order L-208, shutting down all nonessential gold mines in the United States during World War II. Mining never resumed after the war.[7][8][29]

Bodie was first described as a "ghost town" in 1915.[30] In a time when auto travel was on a rise, many travelers reached Bodie via automobiles. The San Francisco Chronicle published an article in 1919 to dispute the "ghost town" label.[31] By 1920, Bodie's population was recorded by the US Federal Census at a total of 120 people. Despite the decline and a severe fire in the business district in 1932, Bodie had permanent residents through most of the 20th century. A post office operated at Bodie from 1877 to 1942