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Bodie: 1962
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 07/14/2007 - 4:49pm.
Bodie, California, July 1962. Odd Fellows Hall and Miners Union Hall on Main Street looking north. View full size. Photograph by Ronald Partridge, Historic American Buildings Survey. Bodie, a mining camp ghost town on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada between Yosemite and Tahoe, is now a state historic park.
Family Ties
Submitted by John Snyder on Thu, 10/14/2010 - 4:55pm.
Bodie is also a National Historic Landmark, the highest listing in the federal historic preservation system.
My great-grandparents were married in Bodie in 1878, and I have a copy of my great-grandfather's deed to the lot he owned there.
Bodie
Submitted by Craig Betts on Mon, 07/16/2007 - 10:09am.
I grew up in Bishop, CA. I remember taking school field trips to Bodie at least once a year. Imagine my surprise as a browsed through my RSS feeds and saw this lovely photo of Main Street!
I look forward to viewing more! Thanks.
Re: Ron Partridge
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 07/16/2007 - 12:59am.
Imogen Cunningham's son is Rondal, not Ronald. The HABS archive caption info gives this particular photographer's name as Ronald Partridge.
Ron Partridge
Submitted by Peter Haan on Mon, 07/16/2007 - 12:48am.
These photos of Ron's should also be accompanied by the comment that he was a twin son of Imogen Cunningham.
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