Post your BODIE pictures :~'))

[onnect17]

Jeffrey, the "light bulb" is fantastic! |o|

[Jim Galli]

My experience with interior access to the buildings was many years ago (1967) on a photo trip with my friend. We had spent the previous night in my van at what was then the Bodie campground. It was a very cold night, well below the freezing mark, and we arose early to have breakfast with the ranger who was there with his young daughter, keeping guard over the ruins. Until noon, when we departed, the four of us were the only persons in Bodie. The ranger opened all of the buildings for us and my friend and I went to work with our cameras.

Wow, the good old days. My brother and I and a friend of his could have been there the next day. We were staying at Dallas Burgers place up Lee Vining Canyon and somehow talked my grandmother into letting us take Burger's camp car, a '47 Chevrolet coupe, up to Bodie for the day. Dallas didn't buy insurance for those vehicles so there was lots of groveling to finally get permission. We drove the road that goes up from Mono lake. Dirt all the way, and steep. The poor old stovebolt boiled over a couple of times and we just stopped and waited for it to cool down a bit. In 1967 my brother was 17 and I was 15. We had a great day in Bodie. I recall sneaking up into the mill area that was still fenced off limits in those days. I was looking in windows and there was a '29 Model A Roadster in one of the buildings. Fairly complete, original, unrestored. Being a Model A nut, I had to jump in the window and have a good long look at that! No harm no foul. But you couldn't get away with those antics these days.

[Robert Skeoch]

This one was from two years ago.

[Jack Flesher]

Lots of AWESOME images here, love seeing them all!

Bodie is absolutely one of my favorite places to photograph. Here are a few of mine from over the years, taken with either 35mm, MF or 4x5 as my gear progressed:

[Jack Flesher]

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[Jack Flesher]

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Cheers,

[Turner Reich]

Are all of the props in museums there or are the buildings open air museums or do you just have to photograph from outside or what? The photo's all look great folks.

[D. Bryant]

Are all of the props in museums there or are the buildings open air museums or do you just have to photograph from outside or what? The photo's all look great folks.

Normally all of the interiors are closed. There are special days when photographers are allowed to photograph inside.

Don Bryant

[Forrest Atkins]

From last year's "Gathering".

[Mike Boden]

Normally all of the interiors are closed. There are special days when photographers are allowed to photograph inside.

Don Bryant

How do you find out about these 'special' days?