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Havilah and Bodfish, Kern County, California. Corlew's Silver City - manufactured ghost town. Old buildings from all over the Kern Valley have been hauled in and re-arranged in the form of an old western town.
Corlew's Silver City, Bodfish, Kern County, California. Corlew's Silver City is a not a real ghost town, but a manufactured one. In the sixties and seventies, Dave and Arvilla Mills found several old, historic buildings from all over the Kern Valley region, hauled them to Bodfish and rearranged them to re-create the old western town of Silver City.
While the town itself is not real, nearly all of the buildings are authentic. Brought in from all over the area, from Keyesville to Isabella, from Whiskey Flat to Kernvale - many old towns and mining camps that are just a faded memory, or lost under the waters of nearby Lake Isabella. The Corlew family purchased the attraction and re-opened it in 1992, and have spent many hours restoring the buildings to an authentic state. Some of the buildings include the Isabella Jail, church, hotel, post office, saloon, and more.
Corlew's Silver City is waaaay off the beaten path, tucked away in the southern foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, roughly an hour northeast of Bakersfield, a few miles from Lake Isabella. It's a bit of a faded tourist stop, a little worse for wear from the ravages of time - but that's partly by design, because the buildings are meant to be preserved in a state of 'arrested decay'. A bit of tourist-trap kitsch with the creepy mannequin displays, but still worth the visit for old western buffs and history enthusiasts.
For more information on Corlew's Silver City, visit Their Official Website.
Or, visit the information page on www.ghosttowns.com/states/ca/silvercity.html.
Picture taken December 16, 2007. Photo #24 of 60 of my Havilah and Bodfish' photoset.
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High angle view of Sveti Stefan ("Saint Stephen"), a fortified island village and 5-star hotel resort on the Adriatic coast of Montenegro, connected to the mainland by a narrow causeway. On the island are 15th-century stone villas overlooking an impeccable pink-sand beach and tempting turquoise waters.
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Aerial view of Kuneer hill, a scenic area in Wonosari Tea Plantation, located on the slopes of Mount Arjuna, in Malang regency, East Java, Indonesia.
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Havilah and Bodfish, Kern County, California. Corlew's Silver City - manufactured ghost town. Old buildings from all over the Kern Valley have been hauled in and re-arranged in the form of an old western town.
Corlew's Silver City, Bodfish, Kern County, California. Corlew's Silver City is a not a real ghost town, but a manufactured one. In the sixties and seventies, Dave and Arvilla Mills found several old, historic buildings from all over the Kern Valley region, hauled them to Bodfish and rearranged them to re-create the old western town of Silver City.
While the town itself is not real, nearly all of the buildings are authentic. Brought in from all over the area, from Keyesville to Isabella, from Whiskey Flat to Kernvale - many old towns and mining camps that are just a faded memory, or lost under the waters of nearby Lake Isabella. The Corlew family purchased the attraction and re-opened it in 1992, and have spent many hours restoring the buildings to an authentic state. Some of the buildings include the Isabella Jail, church, hotel, post office, saloon, and more.
Corlew's Silver City is waaaay off the beaten path, tucked away in the southern foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, roughly an hour northeast of Bakersfield, a few miles from Lake Isabella. It's a bit of a faded tourist stop, a little worse for wear from the ravages of time - but that's partly by design, because the buildings are meant to be preserved in a state of 'arrested decay'. A bit of tourist-trap kitsch with the creepy mannequin displays, but still worth the visit for old western buffs and history enthusiasts.
For more information on Corlew's Silver City, visit Their Official Website.
Or, visit the information page on www.ghosttowns.com/states/ca/silvercity.html.
Picture taken December 16, 2007. Photo #48 of 60 of my Havilah and Bodfish' photoset.
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Havilah and Bodfish, Kern County, California. The old post office. Corlew's Silver City - manufactured ghost town. Old buildings from all over the Kern Valley have been hauled in and re-arranged in the form of an old western town.
Corlew's Silver City, Bodfish, Kern County, California. Corlew's Silver City is a not a real ghost town, but a manufactured one. In the sixties and seventies, Dave and Arvilla Mills found several old, historic buildings from all over the Kern Valley region, hauled them to Bodfish and rearranged them to re-create the old western town of Silver City.
While the town itself is not real, nearly all of the buildings are authentic. Brought in from all over the area, from Keyesville to Isabella, from Whiskey Flat to Kernvale - many old towns and mining camps that are just a faded memory, or lost under the waters of nearby Lake Isabella. The Corlew family purchased the attraction and re-opened it in 1992, and have spent many hours restoring the buildings to an authentic state. Some of the buildings include the Isabella Jail, church, hotel, post office, saloon, and more.
Corlew's Silver City is waaaay off the beaten path, tucked away in the southern foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, roughly an hour northeast of Bakersfield, a few miles from Lake Isabella. It's a bit of a faded tourist stop, a little worse for wear from the ravages of time - but that's partly by design, because the buildings are meant to be preserved in a state of 'arrested decay'. A bit of tourist-trap kitsch with the creepy mannequin displays, but still worth the visit for old western buffs and history enthusiasts.
For more information on Corlew's Silver City, visit Their Official Website.
Or, visit the information page on www.ghosttowns.com/states/ca/silvercity.html.
Picture taken December 16, 2007. Photo #31 of 60 of my Havilah and Bodfish' photoset.
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Tourists riding bikes in front of Chiesa di San Giovanni Battista (St. John Baptist Church), a centuries-old stone church with Gothic & Romanesque elements, in the new town of Matera, Matera province, Basilicata region, southern Italy.
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A lazy cat bathing in the morning light, in the Old Town of Chania, on the island of Crete, Greece.
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The 12th-century Chiesa di San Pietro Barisano (Rock church of Saint Peter Barisano) is the largest rock church in the city of Matera, Matera province, Basilicata region, southern Italy.
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Mt. Kunyit is an active volcano in the Kerinci Seblat National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia. The trek to the crater takes about six hours, and passes through beautiful cloud forests and beside fumrole volcanic vents. In the middle of the crater lies a bubbling hotspring, and what locals call "Taman Dewa" or "The Garden of the Gods." It has a spiritual, mythical place in local folklore, and is the site where local hero Depati Parbo meditated to supposedly gain invulnerability to Dutch bullets during the war for Kerinci.
See more detailed descriptions of the pictures at www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.592735630778650.1073741...
and read more about the Kerinci area at www.wildsumatra.com
Mt. Kunyit is an active volcano in the Kerinci Seblat National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia. The trek to the crater takes about six hours, and passes through beautiful cloud forests and beside fumrole volcanic vents. In the middle of the crater lies a bubbling hotspring, and what locals call "Taman Dewa" or "The Garden of the Gods." It has a spiritual, mythical place in local folklore, and is the site where local hero Depati Parbo meditated to supposedly gain invulnerability to Dutch bullets during the war for Kerinci.
See more detailed descriptions of the pictures at www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.592735630778650.1073741...
and read more about the Kerinci area at www.wildsumatra.com
A landmark in Walker, Arizona, USA for over 75 years. There is a fascinating story behind the pink car. Google it.
A traditional Greek-style church in Apeiranthos (or Aperathos), a mountainous village built on the foothill of mountain Fanari, on the island of Naxos, part of the Cyclades island group, in Greece.
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Havilah and Bodfish, Kern County, California. The Wells Fargo building. Corlew's Silver City - manufactured ghost town. Old buildings from all over the Kern Valley have been hauled in and re-arranged in the form of an old western town.
Corlew's Silver City, Bodfish, Kern County, California. Corlew's Silver City is a not a real ghost town, but a manufactured one. In the sixties and seventies, Dave and Arvilla Mills found several old, historic buildings from all over the Kern Valley region, hauled them to Bodfish and rearranged them to re-create the old western town of Silver City.
While the town itself is not real, nearly all of the buildings are authentic. Brought in from all over the area, from Keyesville to Isabella, from Whiskey Flat to Kernvale - many old towns and mining camps that are just a faded memory, or lost under the waters of nearby Lake Isabella. The Corlew family purchased the attraction and re-opened it in 1992, and have spent many hours restoring the buildings to an authentic state. Some of the buildings include the Isabella Jail, church, hotel, post office, saloon, and more.
Corlew's Silver City is waaaay off the beaten path, tucked away in the southern foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, roughly an hour northeast of Bakersfield, a few miles from Lake Isabella. It's a bit of a faded tourist stop, a little worse for wear from the ravages of time - but that's partly by design, because the buildings are meant to be preserved in a state of 'arrested decay'. A bit of tourist-trap kitsch with the creepy mannequin displays, but still worth the visit for old western buffs and history enthusiasts.
For more information on Corlew's Silver City, visit Their Official Website.
Or, visit the information page on www.ghosttowns.com/states/ca/silvercity.html.
Picture taken December 16, 2007. Photo #27 of 60 of my Havilah and Bodfish' photoset.
This photograph is free for use on the internet under the 'Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial' license. You are free to copy, distribute, transmit and/or adapt this photograph without seeking permission first, as long as you provide attribution to the photograph (preferably by linking to this web page, or including the phrase 'Copyright Matthew Lee High'), and as long as the the photo is not used for commercial purposes. For more information about Creative Commons licenses, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en.
The small town of Moni, at the foot of the Kelimutu volcano, on central Flores island, Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia.
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View of the ancient stone defensive tower houses in Ushguli, a remote highland village situated near the foot of Shkhara, one of the highest summits of the Greater Caucasus mountains, in Svaneti Region of Georgia.
Ushguli is one of the highest continuously inhabited settlements in Europe, and part of the UNESCO heritage site of Upper Svaneti.
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Mt. Kunyit is an active volcano in the Kerinci Seblat National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia. The trek to the crater takes about six hours, and passes through beautiful cloud forests and beside fumrole volcanic vents. In the middle of the crater lies a bubbling hotspring, and what locals call "Taman Dewa" or "The Garden of the Gods." It has a spiritual, mythical place in local folklore, and is the site where local hero Depati Parbo meditated to supposedly gain invulnerability to Dutch bullets during the war for Kerinci.
See more detailed descriptions of the pictures at www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.592735630778650.1073741...
and read more about the Kerinci area at www.wildsumatra.com
Sandhill Crane
Social Distancing along the back roads of Baker County Oregon
A beautiful Spring day exploring the back roads of Baker County Oregon . Some great wildlife and lots of wide open scenery.
Located at the intersection of three Oregon Scenic Byways Baker County is surrounded by spectacular scenery and wide open spaces. For more information about Baker County's back roads and scenic byways visit the Baker County Tourism website at www.travlebakercounty.com
Stunning view of Navagio Beach (Shipwreck Beach), renowned for its iconic bright turquoise waters and the gigantic cliffs surroun it, on the island of Zakynthos, Ionian Islands, Greece.
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A Titan Arum (Amorphophallus Titanum) in the wild, near the edge of the Kerinci Seblat National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia
Summer flowers blooming in the narrow alley at Naoussa, a picturesque, cosmopolitan fishing village in the northeastern part of Paros, part of the Cyclades group, in Greece.
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Mt. Kunyit is an active volcano in the Kerinci Seblat National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia. The trek to the crater takes about six hours, and passes through beautiful cloud forests and beside fumrole volcanic vents. In the middle of the crater lies a bubbling hotspring, and what locals call "Taman Dewa" or "The Garden of the Gods." It has a spiritual, mythical place in local folklore, and is the site where local hero Depati Parbo meditated to supposedly gain invulnerability to Dutch bullets during the war for Kerinci.
See more detailed descriptions of the pictures at www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.592735630778650.1073741...
and read more about the Kerinci area at www.wildsumatra.com
In Jujun for their Kenduri Sko, a traditional festival. Lots of dancing and eating and other festivities. Kerinci Valley, Sumatra
A statue of Virgin Mary nested in tree, in the front yard of the Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in small town of Moni, in central Flores island, Indonesia.
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The Pendung Semurup waterfalls, approximately 15-20 meters in height, can be found on the eastern hills near the town of Semurup, and are reached after an easy, roughly one hour hike through relatively flat farmland and agroforest. Be prepared to get your feet wet wading through a few mountain streams on your way there! See more detailed descriptions here: www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.599289883456558.1073741...
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Female tourist walking on Melasti Beach (Pantai Melasti), in Ungasan, south Bali, Indonesia.
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Mt. Kunyit is an active volcano in the Kerinci Seblat National Park, Sumatra, Indonesia. The trek to the crater takes about six hours, and passes through beautiful cloud forests and beside fumrole volcanic vents. In the middle of the crater lies a bubbling hotspring, and what locals call "Taman Dewa" or "The Garden of the Gods." It has a spiritual, mythical place in local folklore, and is the site where local hero Depati Parbo meditated to supposedly gain invulnerability to Dutch bullets during the war for Kerinci.
See more detailed descriptions of the pictures at www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.592735630778650.1073741...
and read more about the Kerinci area at www.wildsumatra.com