9 Days Home--Calico

On the way back from Las Vegas, we stopped in Calico, a California Ghost town. Ghost towns come in all kinds of conditions. Some can look like nothing more than a patch of earth. This one is nice and restored. It was great fun to walk around it and just...imagine the days when it was "modern--" if they ever used such a word in such a place. It's in the middle of nowhere now, I can't imagine it in 1881! Wow.



The Town--Beautiful, really.


Guns


Fire brigade


Wagon wheel


After working in the mines all day, I guess tired folk needed a little help getting clean--and were willing to pay for it.


Hmmm...perhaps he took a stray one in the last shoot out.


Undertakers


Saloon Folk


Teacher and naughty student.

GOD! ALL THE PEOPLE OF CALICO LOOK SO FAMILIAR!!!!


Cemetery--with some quite recent burials, I might add.


The important folks.


Look who's smiling!


Jirka's favorite tombstone.


Tree in forefront--I like it.


View of the California Desert from Calico.