Ghost
Town - Bodie, California
By Ann Zeise, Dateline: 10/31/00 Page
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A Ranger's cat popped out to greet us
at the blacksmith shop, making us jump with fright. He condescended
to let us pet and scratch him, but had learned his lesson not
to come out from behind the barrier. One tourist had thought
he was a stray and had been caught before he had left the town.
Others have found the Bodie Cat photogenic, too:
Window shopping in Bodie is all there
is for tourists. There are no "tourist traps" other
than a few history books at the museum. The brick building is
the Dechambeau Hotel and Post Office. The wooden building is
the I.O.O.F. Hall on Main Street.
Jim, a lineman for PG&E, was fascinated
by the Hydroelectric Building and Power Substation. A hydroelectric
plant was built in Bridgeport and the power poles were installed
in a straight line 13 miles to Bodie because it was thought that
electricity could not turn corners. For 1892, this long-distance
power system was an engineering feat. The Standard Company's
gold mine was the first in the world to operate an electric hoist.
Dare you proceed?
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