In this, the second half of their visit to the California ghost town of Bodie, Jeff and Sarah show you features of a bygone village dating back to the late 1850s. #Bodie #ghosttowns #historyhunters
When I was a youngster back in the 50s we drove up from SCal to see Bodie. Thank you for making these videos. Brought back a lot of good memories! I am now 70 yrs old.
In 1960-1964, I was in high school and read a book "Gold Strikes and Ghost Towns". Made up my mind then that I would visit Bodie someday. Took me 32 years, but I eventually got there. You folks really do a terrific job of filming, narrative and background music. Your videos are the best on You Tube, in my opinion. Almost feel like you guys are close friends. Now, at age 75, I continue my explorations through your videos. Please keep up the great work.
I visted Bodie when I was 16 with my dad, summer vacation. I'm a history nut and I love old ghost towns. Someday I'd love to visit there again. Thanks guys! Enjoyed the video!
I went with my grandpa back in 90 or 91. He passed away a couple months ago and his truck we drove up in is sitting in my driveway. I can appreciate the effort to preserve Bodie more than ever.
Just visited Bodie this week with my family. Spent several hours walking the town and reading the tour guide at each building we passed. Thank you for your series and insight. Be happy in life.
I don't comment very often on RU-vid but I just gotta say I love the content you guys put out. I love exploring the Old West history of Cali and the surrounding area you guys go through, especially the cemeteries. I always learn something new after watching you guys. You going through the old towns like Bodie remind me of when i explored the ghosts towns of my home state Montana: Bannock, Garnet, Comet.... Makes me want to get out and explore again. :) Thanks again for all these great vids. I know I'm getting a great watch when you guys upload. Keep up the fantastic work!!!
I went with my grandpa back in 90 or 91. He passed away a couple months ago and his truck we drove up in is sitting in my driveway. I can appreciate the effort to preserve Bodie more than ever now at 40 years into my life.
I've enjoyed both of your visits to Bodie...my first time was in the early 60s when the town was made a historical park... but the cemetery was outside the parks bounds ! In part 1, 6:52 in is the school house where my great grandmother used to teach in the 1890s...she also ran the town newspaper for a short while with her sister. When Electricity came to Bodie, all the power lines were run in a straight line as it was thought that the electricity would "Jump Off" if there was a bend in the wire. 22:33 in was the Hotel where she and my Great grandfather were married in 1900. Part 2 4:16 in, "The Road to Aurora" five miles east of Bodie was my family's stage relay station for folks bound for Aurora...at that time Aurora was thought to be in California, but soon discovered to be in Nevada. My Great grandmother would serve as a lookout for rustlers bent on stealing livestock....she used a Remington Rolling block rifle to fend them off. My Great, Great grandfather was the first white man to settle in Inyo county and operated a saw mill near the toll road he built to Mammoth mountain, Sherwin grade is named after him .
I'm not american, I'm a chilean guy... - I love to watching your videos, they are great...! I use them to improve my listening skills in my english process learning and to know a little bit more about tales and History of the ghost towns of US as well... - Thank you to both of you. You're doing it great...! Being a couple and working together as a team, it must be very difficult... but at the same time awesome...! Thank you so much...!!! ( I'm not good writing. But I hope you understand. nevertheless, I've tried ) From Chile Pablo Peretti
Hi Pablo! You did fine with your English. Thank you for watching our channel and enjoying our videos. We enjoy exploring different places and learning about the history of the area. Thank you for watching and subscribing. And I’m glad we’re helping you out with your English!
Song Sarah sang was from Emmett Otter's Jug Band . Love the old pic of Sarah from years before :) No so many years to be safe :) Great second part with even more History from you both Thankyou so much for sharing it
One possible reason for the hole in the casket is because before the 1900’s, there were incidents of people being buried alive. That is where the advent of bells on headstones came from, because they would attach a string from the casket to the bell and if the person woke, they’d pull the string. This is also where the tradition of hold a “wake” came from. The body lying in state and a gathering of family/friends waiting for the person to possibly wake from their illness.
Actually, while it is true that there was a fear of being buried alive, and indeed there was, for a time, a fad of bells that could be pulled, there were not really many incidents of being buried alive. That story however, became somewhat of an urban legend of the time, and fed the fear and the fad. However, the hole you see here, was made for viewing. There would have been a glass pane in the framed hole so that people could view the deceased while they were "laid out."
It's hard to believe that so mush of Bodie has survived over the years. You do such a wonderful job with the history and the photography ....you truly inspire us.
I've been to Bodie, or I think I've been there. From what I've seen in Parts 1 & 2. If I was there, I only saw a small portion of Bodie. Now I want to go back there and see what I haven't seen :). I'm happy that you got to meet some of your followers at the beginning of the video. You have another follower :) Thank's for your videos and research of what you are showing us.
Bodie is one of my favorites. I ride over Tioga Pass on my motorcycle, and Bodie is always one of my main destinations. I have some interesting stories at this town.
So happy to be part of your audience , I like history, but not fond driving ! Thank for welcome me along ! Wonderful blast from the past ! Take care ? God bless
I would just like to say Jeff and Sarah that I love your presentations. Being a Brit; British History (Especially ancient and medieval British History) fascinates me yet; I find 18th and 19th Century American History - Especially the history of the Wild West and Ghost towns blows my senses. I have made one visit to the US and visited my late sister and her family but due to the prevailing health problems, I missed out on going to places that I have always wanted to visit; being Elsworth, Wichita, and Dodge (Kansas) as well as Tombstone Arizona. Than you both for a first class series. Cheers mates!
I liked when you put the camera up to the windows to see interiors. Also great when you have the background research to tell us more about what we are seeing.
I just want to hug those old buildings.. the history .. people .. incredible . Hard to imagine in this day and age what people went thru , and survived. And now here we are .. visiting these old places and graves .. the people all gone , but the history lives on. If only they knew the mark they made on history . Thank you so much for making this video ❤️
Hello, Folks. Sorry I didn't catch your names but I (a new sub to your channel) just wanted to say I really enjoy your videos. The history that you dig up on the places you visit, the people(s) that lived/died there is truly fascinating! I have to say that I do enjoy the graveyard history too, maybe that sounds strange but hearing who these deceased people are and when you can show us their pictures is interesting. I'm 61 and I feel like I'm back in school in a history class with two awesome teachers keeping me totally engaged in the lesson. Thank you again, and I very much look forward to your next video.👍🇺🇸
Hi Terry! Welcome to our channel. Jeff and Sarah here. We’re blown away by the positive remarks like yours! We’re honored that you like our videos! We are growing and encouraged. I’m glad you are learning from our videos! Awesome!
@@jbenziggy I hadn't remembered that, but did hear you say during the recording. I'd like to go back one day and spend more time there. I realise now that I only covered a relatively small area. I did make it up to the cemetery, but could see from your videos that there's much more to explore than the ground I covered in my limited time there. Great videos!
Loved this. I've read about Bodie before but it was great to get a video tour. Crazy to see all of that stuff still there, practically as it was on the day people left. Subbed.
Welcome to our channel and we are happy to know that you liked our episode on Bodie California. It is a wonderful place. We hope that she will be able to visit someday.
Been here many times and never grow tired of the “resting decay”. For whatever reasons you may have, the Chinese opium dens, undertaker wagons (hearses), roofs made of tin from used cans, and the curse of taking keepsakes were either not shown or discussed with any resonance. To me, these things are also such a rich part of the past here. You guys were also challenged with the altitude, but never talked about how elevated this town was or how long it takes to get there by auto, never mind by foot or wagon. Loved hearing the last part of hx and old pics I’d never known. Overall, a very good two-part presentation of Bodie. Still, I wonder why aforementioned not presented.
I think the term is "arrested decay." We didn't see any hearses but did show a coffin in one of the buildings and visited the cemetery. We also showed siding and roofing made of tin cans. Maybe you missed it. As far as the curse of taking things, I'm not into superstition so I didn't mention it.
I think you have the best tour of Bodie I have seen on You Tube, not only photographic, abundance of subject but you bother to explain the who, what, why, where, when and how of Bodie....I have a picture of me in 1955 looking out the barred window of the jail from whitin. You could go in there then as well as most other buildings. I think Cain was instrumental in Bodie being as it is today, he bought a lot of properties when the mines stopped thus saving them. glad Sarah was able to see things she missed last time. Keep up the good work.
The flat tin used on so many roofs were blasting powder cans flatten for use as building materials. Amazing they have lasted so long and helped the buildings under them survive. Thanks for another interesting episode!
The thought came to me about the tin roofs,& even tim siding-wouldn't that just "cook" ppl alive in the warm & hot part of the year? Looks like the sun beating down on it without cold weather would be like an oven!! The houses didn't have onsilatoon Did they?
Thanks Sarah and Jeff, for Part 2 of your Bodie California Tour. I think I mentioned in part 1 that I've lived in California for most of my 75 years of life, born in Oklahoma. Anyway, I have not made it to Bodie yet but, it's still on my Bucket List if, I don't kick that bucket. This was very enjoyable to watch. I love History and often wonder if I've walked the same path as a famous person. Watching a Metal Detecting video last night, the detectorists was given permission to explore the old home where Patsy Cline spent many months/years of her early life. I find that very interesting. Again, thank you for sharing your thoughts, knowledge and, experience with us. Stay safe out there. Stan
Love everything about Bodi. My mom grew up for a while with an outhouse in Virginia on her granny's farm. She said you just don't drink after 6:00 pm. Thanks Jeff and Sarah for this I fun trip.
Good tour of Bodie. I’ve never visited Bodie. I had no idea there was so much to see. Cool photos and stories. That give a good insight to some of the people that lived there. I don’t know how people lived out there without heating in winter and a/c in summer. The headstones were very important to some of them. The headstones were art.
We were there about a year ago and my son was concerned about the large number of childrens caskets we were able to see in the mortuary. We went next door to the visiters bureau and were told that the winters were so harsh that many children did not survive.
Thank you, Jeff and Sarah, for visiting Bodie for the second time! You’ve saved me, what looks like, a hot and dry trip! I enjoyed your walking around the old buildings and relaying the history of each one. I also enjoyed hearing about the inhabitants of Bodie who were buried there. I appreciate your curiosity and research of each “resident” in the cemetery! You are not only entertaining in your travels but a public service!
Hi! Coffins from those days had windows so family could view a body with the casket closed. People didn't have cars like we do today and traveled by horse and buggies. It could take a couple of days for family to arrive. Well, in the absence of embalming... well.... bodies began to smell foul. Makeup made the body viewable.. but did nothing for smell and flowers and perfumes only do so much. Hope that helped. :)
Found the Bodie Bank quite interesting... especially the view of the Halls Safe... don’t know if there’s any relation but there was a Halls Safe Company that operated in Loomis Ca ... not sure how long they were in business... but I worked for a trucking company that exclusively hauled carpet... because it’s hard to haul anything else with it... but anyways we used to take a trailer load of roll ends and remnants to them that took up to 2-3 hours to hand unload!! They used the carpet to line the inside of their gun safes.. Thank You and Sara for another Outstanding History Lesson!!
Thanks for taking us to bodie really enjoyed it. Sad to think that poor guy was murdered for dancing with another's wife. Oh the pain of vigilante justice. Careful who you dance with.
Thank you for this great two part journey back to Bodie. I took a CA road trip back in 2014, drove up 395 stopping at Manzanar and staying a few days at a cool little cabin in nearby Virginia Creek Settlement. The real bucket list reason though was definitely Bodie! Heck, even though I had an SUV that road in Sept 2014 was super washboardy ! I didn’t make it up to the Bodie cemetery because of its higher elevation so thanks for making that trek for me. Favorite places were the house with the glass corner window up front and the old hotel where U2 had done some posing. Nice bit of Deja vu! 👍👍
I have been to Bodie, 6 times. I read a book about 30 years ago , about a Rosa can't remember last name it told all about the town she lived in called Bodie. How beautiful she was . How she was a woman who lived in the Red Light part of Bodie. How eventually she fell in love married and moved away. The museum in Bodie has a section with her personnel belongings. I hunted for Bodie found the ghost town on the way to Reno found it, been visiting even in 2022
Thanks for the upload very interesting watching all your videos a credit to you and Sarah very nice people ...must admit looks a lot warmer there than it does here in cannock Staffordshire in the UK...keep them coming and thank you so much for taking the time out doing the videos for us x
Angie and I were there some years ago. We show up in our San Jose summer outfits and it was very very cold. We did not stay very long in the cold but did get to talk to a Ranger.Thanks for all the detail you put in to this video. Good job!!!!! Jim& Angie
Jeff and Sarah thx for such a great tour of Bodie! Loved how u interpolated John Wayne into the scenes. Your tour will greatly improve my eventual tour of Bodie. Thx.😊
Thank you, Bodie is by far one of my favorite parks. I did not know about the John Wayne TV show and found it on RU-vid, so I will watch it tonight or tomorrow. Take care...
Well, I was looking forward to the second half and I wasn't disappointed. This was a great video!! What a haunting place . I love the stories connected to each building. Thankyou for sharing this great video 🤗🤗💫
jeff and sarah !! you really did a knock out job on BODIE !! I really enjoyed it !!! THANK YOU for doing such a GREAT job !! Have you ever been to DEVILS POSTPILE ?? Its down there close ???
