Ghost Towns | Lost LA | Season 3, Episode 4 | KCET
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- Опубликовано: 6 май 2024
- Some California dreams succeeded, creating megalopolis regions in the state’s north and south. Other dreams failed, leaving nothing but ruins. This episode explores three California ghost towns: Bodie, a Mono County gold mining settlement that was preserved in time; Llano Del Rio, a socialist utopian community in the Mojave Desert; and Zzyzx, a former health spa on the way to Las Vegas.
00:00-01:30 Introduction
01:30-03:09 Allure of Ghost Towns
03:09-08:59 Bodie Ghost Town
08:59-15:13 Llano Del Rio Ghost Town
15:13-24:38 Zzyzx Ghost Town
24:38-25:30 California Dream
25:30-25:58 Conclusion
25:58-26:40 Credits
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I was so hoping this was the Huell Howser visit to Bodie & other ghost towns Huell visited.
I know Chapman University has all of CA Gold's videos, but I wish PBS would also put up & share all of Huell's CA GOLD & Road Trip episodes shows on RUclips.
I see Zzyzx every time I'm headed to Vegas. Nice to finally have some interesting context.
I like how Nathan Masters and Christopher Hawthorne mirror each other in their body language throughout the interview, most notably at 16:08 onwards
I live very close to Llano area and for a long time, you could actually walk upon the ruins, now it is all fenced in. You can feel the presence of the past to be sure.
The political stability of Llano was threatened by internal power struggles. Eventually groups developed, such as the “Brush Gang”, opposing the authoritarian rule of the Board. In November 1917 The Western Comrade magazine announced that the majority of the colony was going to move to an alternative site in New Llano, Louisiana. New Llano never attained the same size or level of productivity as the original colony. The remaining Llano community in California ended due to faulty legal maneuvers. In 1918, Llano filed for bankruptcy.
Oh my gosh! I haven driven by those two chimneys, in the background when they are talking about in the bit about The Western Comrade colony a hundred times, and each times I’ve ALWAYS wondered about it. So cool! Thanks for the upload! Now I can bore my husband with facts instead of ponderings lol. P.S. Hardy? I’m surprised they didn’t DIE. I lived out there, about ten miles from those chimneys, for a very few years and it’s SO SO HOT. You suffer WITH A/C. Obviously they must have gotten water from the ground, but holy cow if you have lived in the area I can’t even IMAGINE.
Another fantastic episode. Love this show. Great work.
The old ghost towns, in some cases, at some stage, had been "boom towns", especially the old Californian Gold Rush
towns, they built-up like in Bodie, that had some 10,000 people, and Aurora, that had another 10,000, they found large
amounts of gold and silver, mined it, and after the easily accessible veins had been depleted, they then had to work
so fucking hard, to mine less and less valuable minerals, as the boom diminished, the peak times started floundering,
the good times were over, the money became scarcer and scarcer, the population became less and less, as they then
moved-on to the larger emerging metropolis's of Los Angeles and San Francisco (with local NFL team later called the
49ers, after the "Gold Rush") In these "Gold Rush" mining towns, often in the "desertification", and very far away from
urban settings, it was always "going to be the case" - It's all flat-out while there's gold and silver, when that dries-up,
the business in that mining town dries-up with it........................But what about in other much more fertile locations??
What can be the reason for fertile, previously prosperous towns like Harrisonburg, Louisiana or Sicily Island, Louisiana??
both fertile and "farming communities" why would their business, population, culture, society, money movement, work
activity, ideas, social clubs etc. Why would everything DRY-UP & SHRIVEL-UP?, within a few decades of 1880 or 1881??
What happened to the thriving HARRISONBURG, and what about "other locations" where "HARRISBURGITIS" (EASTMAL)
affects the people and their health, with a bigger, sinister version, of anything that happened in Harrisburg, what evolves
out of the "exponentially bigger" and "exponentially worse" version of the "Harrisburg Decline" (BEAVERITIS) what happens
to those towns hit with the "Harrisburg-On-Steroids" version?? What happens to that town , and their people, who have
lived there for generations?? DO THEY JUST DRY-UP AND SHRIVEL-UP, AND ARE THEN BLOWN AWAY BY THE WIND??
THE SADDEST THING ABOUT IT IS - THEY NEVER HAD, OR EVER MINED GOLD OR SILVER - ONLY THEY WERE MINED.
I was born and raised in SoCal. Moved to Utah in the late '80's. I visited Bodie back in the late '60's or very early '70's and loved it. Wasn't aware of the history at Llano, but knew where it was. I had a vague idea about Zzyzx, but as I hear it now, I wonder why there was an eviction. Seems like he was the last of a breed that thrived more in the '20's and '30's. Hardly seems fair so long as he wasn't harming anyone. Certainly out on the edge of civilization. Have past the turn off a million times over the years. So whatever became of him?
Well done
in '73 i traveled out west and arrived at a small town just about a few short miles from the most imposing blue granite cone rising solitary from the barren desert floor. picturesque and perfectly massive, probably at least 10,000 ft. tall. a dusting of snow on its awesome peak. the town was comprised of gray weathered wood, nothing painted. think set of gunsmoke. the glass in every window though was crystal clear, utterly spotless, not even a smudge. abandoned completely. remote in the sun. nothing but open sky anywhere. and there stood that gorgeous thing. i do not know where this was, this remarkable place. just a kid, no map. anyone know? must be only one such scene as this on earth!
Why no Calico Ghost Town?
How the California dream differs to the American dream is in the amount of time it takes to get there. The California dream is very fast whereas the American dream takes a little longer.
So what happened to Llano Del Rio?
This touches on the one thing that really was uncomfortable for me about the culture of Los Angeles--there is such a prominent disconnect of history. It's such a young state compared to living in the Northeast, where the country was founded. I really believe that when you live in a city like LA, surrounded by mall culture and brand new developments constantly going up, the romanticism dies down very quickly for what LA is. I used to live in Burbank, right down the street from the WB lot, and it's bizarre that the oldest buildings I came across were only 2 or 3 generations old. It's a bubble too. But having connection to these other buildings that are not remotely entertainment-centric is nice, because it's an industry of utility as opposed to luxury. It's easy to get out of touch with what actually matters/what the fundamentals of society are.
None of these places had a railroad stop. ---- Doomed . . . . .
Well, not all towns were founded at train stops. Some were founded at the intersections of old roads.
Or a reliable/sustainable way to get water on a regular basis.
Bodie is 361 miles from Los Angeles. How is this Lost LA?
"found gold" on stolen land makes it stolen gold also....
Smh
At 8:52 to 8:56 or so. A shadow of someone pops up. In the left behind the wood beam. Were there is a door way. Let me know if you see it too. I know I'm not tripping. There's also a blurr. Let me know what you see 👀
it’s a reflection in the glass. there is a window pane between the camera and the interieur, and someone moves, most probably the person behind the camera
Sounds Like A Corrupt Theory
GOLD! THE PIONEERS OF YESTERDAY LOOKING FOR FORTUNE!
I don't like it because he said the towns don't have ghosts.
Waaaaa
Nothing ever changes just gets bigger and more corrupt!
Such a shame they took Zzyzx from him. It wasn't fair.
How hot is IT?????
"To see if socialism might actually work..." No. It doesn't. Been tried worldwide. Only the elites thrive. Just like with capitalism. The difference? The majority of citizens who are NOT elites suffer the most with socialism. Why? No matter your country of origin, nationality, or race, you are human. Humans are inherently greedy. Humans are corrupted by wealth and power. Those that have it WANT IT ALL. Socialism takes even the chance of success, the 'hope' if you will, away from the masses. Capitalism preserves 'hope'. Thank you, I'm here all week...
Someone was mining for spiritual gold now the California university system and the banks hat provide debt / tuition loans....are mining for money...
Does anyone still live in Bodie? Thank you.
Jerry Sullivan that place is an absolute shithole!
I believe there's a small number of people, mostly park rangers, that live there during the season. This is high country (about 8400 feet or 2561m) and gets severe weather and the roads, which are mostly dirt, are snowed in for a good part of the year.
Thank you.@@Raptorman0909
It is staffed year round by park rangers.
I SAW A VIDEO CHANNEL OF THIS I CANNOT BELIVE THIS REALLY THERE WAS ZOMBIES AND MILITARY DUDE YOU HAD TO WATCH IT
No villagers just pillagers. Widespread barbarism. What other culture behaved in this manner?
prester john You want a list?
The new editor of the Western Comrade: Gavin Newsom
It is tradition to pull over onto Zzyzx road for a "quickie" on the way to Vegas!
What is it that makes gold valuable?? Does it give off some spiritual radiation? That drives people into gold fever insanity? Do people eat that stuff for some reason? Or do they breathe that stuff for some reason? Does it put a roof over their head like timber? Does it cover their body from the radiation of the sun and that cold temperatures of the winter? 1 oz of gold could be stretched into one mile of telephone wire. But not back then. And they definitely don't use gold anymore. For anyting not even your electronic devices explanation point? Come on! The human race. and the stock market is all fraud!or go catch a fish with a shiny piece of gold lurer... Maybe it just triggered happiness like illegal drugs. Temporary fix 4 reason to be alive?
Gold doesn't tarnish or corrode, it doesn't rust away or decay into nothingness and it's relatively scarce; this in addition to it's natural beauty. Given it's known properties it became a monetary unit in ancient times and continues to be a convenient one today.
Don't you know?? It's the stuff dreams are made of!! (Shameless quote from "The Maltees Falcon")
@@s.sestric9929 nicely stated!
God these are terrible... how is it possible to take such interesting topics and make such crappy shows about them