Bodie’s mines were mostly depleted by the mid-1880s. Two devastating fires ravaged the town, one in 1892 and another in 1932. The last residents decamped in the 1940s, after which the ghost town ...
Often nicknamed ghost towns, these once populated places become ... A number of fires destroyed many of the buildings, and by the 1950s Bodie was deserted. Today it is a popular tourist attraction ...