Calaveras Photography Gallery

Ward's Cemetery, the Masonic Cemetery, the Miner's Union Cemetery and the Chinese Cemetery.

Only those accepted as respectable were buried inside the fences.

Genuine California gold mining ghost town.

Evelyn, Beloved Daughter of Fannie O. and Albert K. Myers, born May 1, 1894, died April 5, 1897.

Solomon B. Burkham died Jan. 13, 1904. Aged 49 years, 16 days. A native of West Virginia.

Kathryn Lee 1892-1912

Harlan V. 1888-1914

James B. Perry, a Native of Ireland, died June 9, 1896, aged 63 years, Late Supervisor of Mono County.

Last used to store county road maintenance equipment.

Post office was erected by Postmaster George Putnam.

Odd Fellows Lodge instituted March 11, 1878.

This building served as the Post Office then as Grandma Johnson's rooming house and later as the Dechambeau Hotel.

No. 279 (IOOF), used the upper floor of this building.

Wonderful line of barstools in the bar of the old hotel.

It has huge wheels doesn't it?

This buidling was last used as the morgue, note the caskets inside.

Erected in 1879, this building served as a general store.

It was owned by Harvey Boone, a direct descendant of Daniel Boone.

Kerosene and gasoline were hauled toBodie from Hawthorne and Carson City.

The only gas pump I've seen in a mining town!

Ore cart from the gold mine.

The big fire of July 25, 1892 wiped out all but a few buildings of the town's business district.

Old bottle lined up on the inside window sill of the house.

Beautiful front door with a unique black handle.

Who arrived in Bodie when he was 25, entered the lumber business,

and put barges on Mono Lake to transport timber to the Bodie mines.

Everyone here seemed to have rocking chairs.

They all had sewing machines too...

You don't see bed frames like this anymore, many other houses had similar ones.

Amazing looking car in the middle of a grassy field.

Roll of barbed wire left behind, along with an abandoned house in the backgroud.

A bath tub outside in the fields.

Was erected in 1882 and is the only church still standing in Bodie and the only Protestant church erected.

A lone wheel barrow left in the dirt.

Beautiful house still standing in Bodie.

An Outhouse which is barely being saved from falling over.

An engine left behind, with an extremely rotted car around it.

Beautiful house still standing in Bodie.

A giant wheel used in machinery in the mines.

Beautiful house still standing in Bodie.

In 1885-1886 this was the U.S. Land Office run by M.T. Cody, the father of Ella Cain.

Inside the school house, a small clock and teacups left behind... Alice anyone?

A white chair in front of a piano or organ with a religious painting on the wall, and phonograph horn in the bucket.

Built in 1879, was originally the Bon Ton Lodging House.

The first school, located two blocks up the street, was burned down by an early-day juvenile delinquent.

Beautiful house still standing in Bodie.

A main road running through Bodie.

This shed is at the very top of a hill behind the modern day ruins.

Ore carts from the gold mines.

The inside workings of a safe in the Bodie bank.

Hall's Safe from Cincinnatti.

The remains of the bank vault. It was robbed on September 1, 1916

by four men who got away with $4,000 in money and jewelry.

Only one prisoner is known to have escaped. Bail for "guests" was $5.

Joseph DeRoche was taken fromthere by the Bodie "601," a vigilante group, and hanged.

Beautiful house still standing in Bodie.

Sheets that were on the outside of many of the buildings.

Bottles left behind on what looks like a rail road tie.

Genuine California gold mining ghost town.

Beautiful, yet tattered, white curtains in a window.

Bob Bell, son of Lester L. Bell, was born in Bodie and worked in it's mines.

In later years he helped stabilize and restore Bodie's buidlings for the Department of Parks and Recreation.