As a kid in the 60's we would walk down the steps into the earthquake fault, there was snow still in the bottom, it was about 30 foot deep at that time, since then the ground open up and dropped, I understand that the Indians had stored food on the snow pack at the bottom.
Thanks for the ride! I've spent half of my 70 years within walking distance of 395 between Ridgecrest and Reno and I'll match it's place in western history with anywhere else.
Wow, amazing, love the history, to bad about Mono Lake, way to many people period, sucking the life out of the planet. But beautiful, never knew about Manzanar, wow, history, thanks for sharing
The 395 is definitey one of my favorite stretches of road in this whole country! Lots to see for me still, especially like Bodie in your video, the road was closed (too much snow) last time I was there, so oh well! great excuse to do another 395 roadtrip again soon. Really enjoyed this video! 🥰
Hi! Chuck: There may only be one building made of red bricks in Bodie today. But Bodie did have many many brick building during its heydays. Like nearby Aurora, most all the bricks were taken for use eisewhere, as the town declined..
Huge fan of anything Owen's Valley Southern Pacific Railroad Lone Pine Branch, Owen's Valley towns, history, Mono County, Bridgeport, Bodie, etc. The armchair trip was great! Much appreciated. _subbed..._
Was out here in may 2021. Went to manzanar camp. I wasn't real familiar with what it was until my brother told me. While I was there and especially when we went into the living quarters I had a terrible feeling. So hard to explain. But I felt horrible. Two year later and it hasn't changed. So glad I was able to see it, just wish it didn't happen. But you can't change history. I will be back in the area in may 2023. May go back there. Will definitely visit lone pine and want to go north to some lakes. It's a long ways from central Missouri but worth it. Thank you for the video
That's the nice thing about being Yosemite National Park means that Las Angeles can't take the water from there or any other National Park . Be safe my friend happy trails.
When my family lived in Bishop California and my dad was acting postmaster and manager of the Coca-Cola bottling company in 1948-1955 or so, we lived at 186 West Hanby St. in a small house which used to one of the Japanese barracks from Manzanar Japanese internment camp. When my dad worked for Governor Brown 1, my dad wrote the bill that made Bodie a National Historic Site and a State Historic Park
The laundry room has its concrete SLAB left. HOWEVER, those little concrete blocks where the barracks once stood are called concrete PIERS. Home Depot sells them still today. !
Manzanar is a must stop and reflect. Be sure to go into the administration building to get a real grasp of what the camp really was. Bodie is really cool. The tin was from one gallon oil cans cut and flattened.
Wonderful video! I found several images of the gardens if would like to see them, I can email them to you. Fact, my mom was a young girl in Manzanar, Block 5.
plese note : bodie was the first town to be electrified by tesla after he electrified niagra falls when he headed out west. as per a tour guide there . had fun.
If we just use inflation from 1941 and not go all the way back from the beginning of the mining of Bodie, then 34 million is worth 703 million dollars today. Also, the price of gold was 33.85 an oz. in 1941, so, if ALL the gold in Bodie was mined in one year, 1941, that would be almost exactly one million ounces or nearly 2 billion dollars today. The mines produced over 40,000 oz. in 1877, as they just got started with investors and that's around 80 million dollars today. Bottom line, I think Bodie produced far more income than mentioned.
Let's not forget, the Democrat in charge of our country back then not only interned the Japanese but Italians too. Mostly at Missoula, Montana. Along with internment, tens of thousands of Italians were ordered to go register, get fingerprinted and photographed and had to carry with them their new I.D. as "enemy aliens". They had to turn over radios and cameras and had a curfew along with travel restrictions. Joe DiMaggio's own father was not allowed to visit Joe's restaurant in San Francisco, which was too close to the ocean, even though he made his living working on a fishing vessel (which presumably, he was not allowed to do). I believe some members of Congress still attempt to introduce bills to apologize to Italian Americans but the bills get defeated. President Reagan signed a bill apologizing to Japanese Americans in 1988 and those who were still alive, who were interned and all their property taken (homes, farms etc) were given 20,000 dollars.
