Abandoned Tuberculosis Sanatorium on Paoha Island, Mono Lake
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- Welcome to Wonderhussy Adventure #159!
Rotting away on Paoha Island in the middle of Mono Lake are the ruins of a creepy old abandoned TB sanatorium from the 1930s!!
These ruins are very challenging to visit -- the island can only be reached by a 3-mile kayak or canoe trip, as the water of Mono Lake is too salty for most motorboats. Also, because it is a nesting habitat for California gulls, Paoha Island is closed to humans until July 31 each summer....which means you only have a month or two of decent weather to access it. Furthermore, the part of the island with the ruins is choked with very dense, prickly brush...making a visit VERY complicated!
But it was totally worth it...what a creepy, fascinating and hauntingly beautiful place!
I grew up outside of Syracuse, Auburn was a nearby city. Fascinating to know that something manufactured in Auburn made it out to remote Paoha Island in Mono Lake. Too cool!
Long before the TB resort, there were some families that farmed on the island. Crazy! The resort was built in the early 30's, so that dozer fits in to the time period. Indeed that is a fresh water spring and the reason why people farmed there and built the "Spa". Apparently there are some deer on the island. Thanks for the tour!
This place is amazing! Thank you for the upload and taking one for the team 😊
Also mono lake is where the movie 'High Plains Drifter' was filmed and also where the photo of the man diving into the water from 'Wish You Were Here' by Pink Floyd was taken.
Thanks. I was gonna mention the Pink Floyd connection, didn't know about the Eastwood one. Very cool. Watching how salty that water was made me think of the poor guy who posed for Wish You Were Here. There was no photo trickery. He had to hold his breath balanced on a chair and pose with his bottom half above the water until the surface of the water was perfectly smooth. Oy.
8:23 is a John Deere horse drawn plow, Cletrac Model W 1919-1932 crawler tractor, very very cool video!
William West Often the seats of equipment back in the day will have logos stamped on them. Plow is probably from the 20's. Dunno on tractor thingy.
It's a horse drawn plow, 2 bottom, the yellow paint on the wheels tells me it's a Deere. The tractor was easy, i'm in the heavy equipment business.
William West That is exactly what I was thinking.....yellow gave it away.
Sarah, your older videos are awesome. Thanks.
I was stationed in Heidelberg while I was in the military. I bet it was fun to grow up there. One of my favorite places.
Re-watching these and they're still cool. Mono Lake is beautiful and fascinating as are you.
The tractor Cletrac; is pronounced Cleet Track very deirable for a restoration project, depending on condition, of course. It make me happy to see one i the wild. The were used extensively in Sugar Cane production in Southern Florida.
Cletrac stands for Cleveland Tractor Company.
Cleveland motor company, started in 1916. With 6 million in capitol. By founder of white motor company. ( white semi truck's ) renamed Cleveland tractor company in 1917. 40,000 tractors sold. They played a big part in WW2. Sold to Oliver. Tractor company In 1944. It was renamed cletrac I in 1959. Closed In 1961.
Shut the front door! I've lived in Vegas for 12 years and the "attractions" you find blow me away. They broke the mold with YOU girl! Love it! I'm also old enough to be your father so please forgive me if I politely suggest some Hand Sanitizer and save the flip o flops for a quiet night in your crib. :) Happy BDay early!
California has so so many places to visit. I miss being there!
Mono Cone ! All right! There is actually a fresh water stream on the island. If you paddle clockwise around Paoha from where you landed you’ll find it. The fresh water looks like oil entering the Alkali because of its specific gravity difference
I wish my life was like yours ,,im an English housewife married to the an Aussie....I lead a very boring life ...my dream would be move to Vegas and go exploring with you..but in meantime I'm your armchair explorer freind ...Theresa from Cornwall England...
Wow that's something to see for sure. Thanks for the ride along.
another awesome video! i just love the paces you go. thank you for taking me on your adventures. keep on truckin'!
I have a little familiarity with TB sanitoria. Those buildings were solaria, used to give solar treatments to patients. From the looks of them, there was a retractable shutter on the roof that could be rolled back fill the room with sunlight, considered to be beneficial for tuberculosis patients, along with the high desert air. (Incidentally, I liked Mark Twain's account of the mangy dog that tried to swim in the lake...a short-lived adventure due to salt water hitting the poor pooch's skin sores.)
Dear wanderful, wonderful weird Wonder Hussy, Thank you for not being just another boring generic travel vlogger. You go to some of the most interesting places and present them in your own funky way. I really the abandoned places. Thanks again.
Paoha Island is a volcanic island in Mono Lake. Only about 350 years ago, before the mid-17th century, the present-day Paoha Island did not exist. Volcanic eruptions on the lakebed gave rise to the island, which eventually rose to 6,670 feet (2,030 m) above sea level, 290 feet (88 m) above the present-day elevation of Mono Lake. The pale color of the island is attributed to lakebed sediments rising above the lake surface along with the volcanic material. The island has been tilled for alfalfa crops; a rabbit-and-chicken farmer once set up shop, and the island was also inhabited by a family who ran a health resort and raised goats for milk and yogurt.
I read the exact thing, word for word, online. I could copy/paste too, if I wanted too!
@@jazzcatt So what, saved us the trouble
@@RRaucina Word for word Copy/Pasted info should at least be credited. When I research something I credit it, especially if I'm just transferring someone else's work and not completely rewriting it. That's what.
Cat Jefferson @Richard Raucina Oh for goodness sake; so what it’s copied...this isn’t a university setting where APA citation is required.
The Mono Cone is the best! I lived in Lee Vining back in the mid 90s. I co-managed a motel across the street called Murphey's Motel.
Once again you've given us a great adventure! Thank you!😎🏜
It's amazing how they get all this "stuff" out to this place !!!!
Interesting video SJ! I don't know why but abandoned footwear always worries me. It's especially creeping when there's both shoes. 😂 Happy exploring!
The lakeshore is muddy and sticky. In fact, there's a spot north of Lee Vining that's nicknamed "Sneaker Flat" because so many people leave their shoes behind, stuck in the mud.
I love Mono lake. I’ve gone there almost every year since I was 4 years old, and I have to say it’s an amazing place but I’ve never kayaked out to Paoha Island before. But I do recognize that old piece of farming equipment at 8:18 from a clip in the film the Mono Lake committee made in the mid ‘80’s called Of Ice and Fire, A Portrait of the Mono Basin. If you haven’t seen it you gotta check it out.
You've gotta be one of the coolest people on youtube
Not "one of," the absolute coolest!
I've looked at Google Map and compared to when I was there in 84. The water appears higher because we used to be able to walk up to the towers. The water was much farther away. Glad to see it higher. Thanks for the memories. Sanatorium structure makes sense. An arch is the strongest kind of roof. The ridge around it creates a kind of eve drip edge for when it does finally rain. Great discourse of imagination tho.
I played on an old Cletrac crawler tractor in 1948, I was only 8 years old, and my schoolmate buddy down the road had one and we would play on it in his field. Location was San Fernando Valley, near Los Angeles.
Super cool place. Thanks so much for bringing us here! Not so sure I’d bushwhack that place! Ouch! Wouldn’t it be so cool to find old photos of this place when people were here? Wow. Hopefully someone with a family member or friend who was here will see this and send you photos to post. 👍🏻
Been to Mono Lake (I live in Ontario, Canada...so it was quite a trip!) and wandered all over Panum Crater. I did not know about the old sanatorium on Paoha though. Kind of "dodgy" setting up shop in such close proximity to such a recently active volcanic area...well...there is Naples...
*fantastic video !!! I was just there last weekend and in all these years i had no idea about the history of that island ... thanks !!!*
After some googling:Paoha's greater size, plus its several bitter springs, have given it a more colorful human history than Negit. The island has been tilled for alfalfa crops; a rabbit-and-chicken farmer once set up shop, and the island was also inhabited by a family who ran a health resort and raised goats for milk and yogurt.
Another great day out with Wonderhussy.
Always a pleasure to travel with you.
Also, I love the Cletrac. I love seeing old equipment left from years past. And Mark Twain is my favorite.
This is amazing. Thanks for exploring there.
Must be quite a few collapsed huts overrun with those bushes. These places always make me want a time machine to see the place when it was brand spanking new.
Mono lake is really looking good! No water for so long. Didn't even know there was an island! Another great video, thanks!
Another great video WH such a cool spot. There used to be a creepy old motel of cabins in Lee Vining, I recall staying there one time and the guy in the office was like the elder John Carradine actor, thin and gaunt. He scared the crap out of me. It was a sorta cool place though simple cozy and cheap. The Tioga pass road is awesome too. I love your adventures, you find the best sites and give a fun commentary always. I'll be sure to try the burger joint next time I pass through.
From what I have been able to dig up the TB Sanitorium was a pretty big place. It's obvious now that it was demolished. Other old clinics are still standing from even earlier than the 1930's that were just left to fall down. Interesting though. I love Urban Exploration.
I love your imagination - and your enthusiasm about things of past times!
Thanks WH, a once in a lifetime tour of this place for me.
Yes, love Mark Twain and Jack London, too. If you think about it, Tom Sawyer was one of the first people to go on an adventure just for the heck of it. P.S. Sometimes it took some years to get a patent and so some of the productions of things happens before a patent date. The manufacturers were confident they wouldn't be copied because they'd already applied for the patent.
MONO CONE has the Best Bacon Cheeseburgers! So Glad we share the same tastes!!!! Wow now I feel were so connected via the MONO CONE - Fly Safely!
it was great to cross your path at the hot spring great stories vids!
Another awesome adventure! This was the first time I ever saw Sarah Jane out of breath!
That would be a great place to camp! The ruins are quite delightfully creepy!
539 Productions it would be fun to camp there.
Wonder Hussy, talking about parallel lives. When I was young I lived in the SF Bay Area Daly City, then I was went to Germany where if you did go to Heidelberg HS, you & I were academic enemies because I went to Mannheim. I lived in Worms at the time, but very proud of The Purple & Gold. Then guess what, I lived in Vegas where I attended UNLV. Wow what a coincidence !!! SF in the late 70s, Germany from 80 to 86, then Vegas in the early to mid 90s. I was born in Honolulu but raised on Maui! Now, isn't that just crazy or what...!
You should read "Roughing It" by Mark Twain, it's his first hand account of his arrival in the West and his various adventures, including the island trip by rowboat.
Twain was out on that lake when a bad wind storm hit forced him and his crew to camp out on that island .
Also do you remember the old town of LAGO?? Clint Eastwoods famous High plains Drifter filmed on the west shore.
Paint it red!
I love that you look at the old stuff lying around, your first video I watched was when you said someone told you that inside the Toilet is a manufacturer date, now I know how to date a house better. Thanks for the videos.
Thank you so much! I’ll never get here but what an adventure!
I used to hang around Heidelberg too, as back in the early 70's I was in the army, stationed not far away.
HQ USAREUR, '74 - '75, made up for the rest of the army b.s.
Great video , it always amazing the places that you go and film and the remoteness of some of these places is mind blowing ! Great job and thank You
That was a super cool lake..aka giant hot spring. Really curious what it was like back in the day.
Wonder Hussy is a Super Cool Lady..My favorite, Walk around lady. Awsomely, Awsome with the accent on Awsome!
Awesome as always. I was thinking just before you dropped it that I hoped the camera was tethered to your wrist! Hope it is OK. Words no doubt!!! Sanatoriums were common place after WW1&2 as Tuberculosis is very contagious. The one I knew of in London ON was known as the 'San'. Huge 3 story building with high fences.
That green coil of wire was likely copper (green patina) and is what telephone lines were made of back in the day supported on poles. That first piece of equipment is a type of plow that had opposed moleboards/moldboards and was likely pulled by the Clettrack dozer to make ditches for irrigation or planting. Porcelain coated cast iron sink is from 30's-40's. Very interesting and you must have gotten lots of ouchies from those thorns. Tough and Rough yet beautiful. Just like You.
You seem to get around so much! Sometimes i wish i was doing something like this. Great videos Hussy!
That round roof room was a quintisencial treatment room in the days of the sanatorium movement. Bed rest, fresh air and sunshine, rest and relaxation.
Interesting
13:41 Good catch on the art deco design. I'm sure that was all part of the 1930 Tuberculosis Sanatorium. It probably wasn't too successful. I can't imagine too many tuberculosis patients being up to paddling out there.
You need to buy the Clown Motel, it'd make the ultimate Hussy Base of Operations! :)
I've stayed at the Clown Motel when I was working as a traveling musician in the late '90s. I played two weeks at the Banc Club in Tonopah. Why people go nuts over the Clown Motel it is beyond me. The only place that was interesting is the lobby where the owners house a shitload of dusty, old clown nicknacks. The old low class but clean rooms had cheap replica paintings of a clowns in them. Whoopie-friggin'-doo.
I love your videos Lady H;) I'm writing down every place you go in April I'm taking a three-week road trip every place you go so thank you much very interesting
Really enjoy your work. Thank you so much for sharing your life and adventures. You never cease to give me a laugh and a smile. .Go Pro -run-over proof yet not waterproof.
Really awesome video. Never knew that existed there. Great job.
Lee Vining and Mono Lake is one of my favorite vacation stops.
Hey there wonderhussy, I just wanted to say I saw one of your videos where someone said you talk too much. I wanted to let you know, you don't talk too much, I am blind and I love all the descriptive or else I wouldn't know what was going on thank you so much keep up the good work enjoy all your videos
Classic WH, entertaining and informative
The 1 shot was probably an oiler to lubricate the valves. Pump once every so often to keep it lubricated. You can see the valves on top of the engine.
From where you at Mono sometime instead of taking 395 back down to Bishop, instead take Hiway 120 down the mountain coming out in an old Indian town Benton......super cool hiway with hardly any traffic. Once you hit Hiway 6 you turn right and drive about 40 mins into Bishop.
When I was young I carried a Church Key for beer and soft drink cans. Pull Tabs were the demise of the Church Key, but I still have one in my car and kitchen.
It’s been several months since I’ve enjoyed a wonderhussy video.
Another really cool video Hussy.
A sanatorium (also spelled sanitorium and sanitarium) is a medical facility for long-term illness, most typically associated with treatment of tuberculosis (TB) in the late-nineteenth and twentieth century before the discovery of antibiotics.
*was going to correct your spelling but i see there are 3 accepted versions thanks !*
Have seen all your videos, this is one of my favorites.
Hi So awesome what a find What Place. Building looks like a Dome of some kind. Really Cool is right. So Awesome. Take Care Be Safe and God Bless our Country and all of us. Gloria Thee 62 year's young Traveling Nomad In Waiting....
that wheeled thing that you found 21:48 is a horse driven plow how it got there is anyone's guess but that is what it is
I kayaked at Lake Tahoe this morning for 5-hours, but it wasn't as exciting as your trip. I'm old enough to be your grandfather, so I feel I can ask this question. When is the last time you had a tetanus shot? I see all the rusted steel you walk over. I put all my shots on the US Department of Health & Human Services form, PHS-731. A tetanus shot is $70 at the local pharmacy. :)
He is correct. At 68 and a former Navy Corpsman, you would be wise to have the preventive shots and carry a record.
Y'all are sweet as you are wise
Maybe those were just the top of buildings rest buried and you got a shot of an old wall, but this is an amazing find
Vaporized? Loved it. Laughed out loud when you said that. Keep the great videos coming.
What an awesome adventure, I love how the weird, round houses, retreat/ sanitorium huts or yutes @ 10:43 had flag holders on the top, the flags flew, back in the day, for this fresh air get away! Love your adventurous soul. Thanks for sharing!!!! That tractor looked like one of those air boats from Florida, to cross the water? Maybe? CoooooooL
Miss Hussy, if you haven't read The Mysterious Stranger, by Mark Twain, you should do so. It was his interpretation of the Devil. I think you would really enjoy it.
great video thanks for sharing. I think you've been everywhere now WOW
Here is a link to let you know about the Cletrac and the plow which was a 14” two-furrow plow that was pulled by the Cletrac which was capable of turning over 8 to 10 acres of soil a day...
This particular little Cletrac was probably a early to mid 1920’s model...
www.steel-wheels.net/cletrac.html
In Lee Vining, CA try the Whoa Nelli Deli in the Mobil Station in the Convenience store on Hwy. 120 a short distance west of 395. It is famous for Gourmet food.
There was a narrow gauge railroad built about 1880 which hauled logs from the forest south of Hwy. 120 east of 395 to Mono Mills along the highway. It then took lumber north along the east shore of Mono Lake. There is a monument where it crosses Pole Line Road, which goes east to Hawthorne, NV. North from there a few hundred feet are the old wooden ties from 1880. It was abandoned about 1917. The railroad continued north into and up over the hills and to Bodie, CA.
Mark Twain seriously rocked!
And He hated the French, great man!!
WoW! Very Cool!
Thank Sarah I've always wanted to see that!👍✌️❤️
Mono Lake is in a volcano that sunk into the ground as a caldera hence the hot water seeping up from the floor of the lake.
Indeed that sanitorium was creepy. Sarah has spent some time with Mormon friends evidently.
Hilarious...In just about every adventure you say. " If you are going to to this, I recommend that you bring some sturdy shoes, long pants....."
But alas.... Once again...You ..Have not.
Great stuff. Love your vids.
The content is well appreciated. Liked/voted, have a good one!...
From...www.tripsavvy.com :
In the 1930s, when the lake level was higher, a geyser and hot springs on Paoha Island prompted a local entrepreneur to build a small resort here, catering to people with tuberculosis. The building you see here was one of the lodgings.
Freshwater springs still bubble up on the island, creating an environment that is home to several deer, whose ancestors apparently swam out to the island.
Crazy place like always! Glad to see that you also can be 'under' dressed :) A little bit more would have made it much easier.
Van Williams
Ha ha ha! Wonderhussy almost always under dresses, which makes for some of her adventures to be a lot more challenging for her to keep from being injured, be it minor or severe. Sometimes the girl scares me especially when she's wearing flip flops when she should be in a protective boot.
You’re amazing. Trenton NJ was the porcelain capital of manufacturing of porcelain products. Up until the 50’s.
Thank you WH,great job,I cant believe you don't see more snakes,.Safe travels.!73s
Very cool! Thanks, Sarah
Along the way, Mark Twain also lived in Connecticut. His house in Hartford is now a museum. Any chance you coming east?
Looks like a horse drawn tractor. Love the views have to check this place out :)
Interesting facts with Mark Twain! Fun! 👍
That is weird. I was born in Boulder City. Grew up mostly in Oxnard/Ventura and saw quite a bit of Germany in the military. Rhein-Main Air Base. Ramstein (Little America) areas
The tufa towers don't come up from the lake. They can only form under water. They are visible because the lake level has dropped so much.
another interesting place and video. I wonder what the farm equipment was used for it doesn't appear the area to grow crops.
Another awesome place you conquered!
That was an awesome exploration!
Oh man, I love the mono cone. Fantastic food.