Going back in time
Today, when you visit Bodie, you go back in time. The streets are abandoned, and the inside of the houses look exactly as they did 60 years ago. It's difficult to imagine tah Bodie was a rich town with a population of 10,000 people.
Beginning of the end
Miners began to leave Bodie in 1880, and it became a family-friendly community. By the end of the 1940s, Bodie was a ghosst town. The houses were left just as they were. After 60 years, they are now very dusty!
Dangerous town
In the 1870s, Bodie had 65 saloons and dance halls. There was more gambling, drinking and shooting tan in any other mining town. There was also a murder almost every day in Bodie!
Gold, gold, gold
Bodie had many gold mines and the town boomed frem 1877 to 1880. The mines produced gold with a value of 34 million dollars.
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