Abandoned/derelict sites

teotwaki

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Saline Valley Salt Tram summit station before....

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about 100 years later
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teotwaki

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Original home for Death Valley park superintendent built by Civilian Conservation Corps, Company 908

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The CCC built barracks, graded 500 miles of roads, installed water and telephone lines, and erected a total of 76 buildings for themselves and PWA and Park Service employees. They built trails in the Panamint Mountains to points of scenic interest (the 7 mile Telescope Peak Trail is one of these). They erected an adobe village, laundry and trading post for the Shoshone Indians, And they built 5 campgrounds, restrooms and picnic facilities, developed wells and springs, constructed an airplane landing field, made signs and helped with surveying the monument.
 

teotwaki

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These guys have some great videos

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Rattler

Thornton Melon's Kid
I guess this may qualify as abandoned or derelict. I had wanted to shoot some photos at a not-too-far-from-me salvage yard. I knew they had quite a stock of some neat old stuff. It took a few trips to persuade the owner to let me do it (along with a pizza). The yard is ran by the son now and they have a thriving late-model salvage operation that keeps them running. I heard stories of what was in there but I was not prepared for the cars I was seeing in there going to waste. Maybe the son will sell them off once the old man passes even though most are beyond repair and little of any good parts left. I was there for almost 4 hours and took @ 650 images. I found 3 Pontiac GTO Judges, 2 Gremlin Xs, 8 various years of Chevy SS models, Corvettes as far back as the early 60s, at least a dozen Javelins, 2 Jeep Scramblers, an AAR Cuda, several Porsche 944s and even a couple of Toyota FJ-40s were in there. And that isn't a total list. I may have to make a return trip some day.

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Rattler

Thornton Melon's Kid
Here are a few more.
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Driving by, I would see these sitting out by the road. They made me want to get in and see what else was in there.
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teotwaki

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Great photos of cool old cars! That place is like looking at stacks of 100 dollar bills rotting out in the open :Wow1:
 

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