The west has a long legacy of abandoned settlements scattered across the landscape. The LAtimes takes a tour through this historic places and reminds us all what Phoenix or Vegas might become if the drought worsens and they run out of water as mega disasters portends. But the reporter missed some of the more interesting ghost towns identified by CLUI's Land Use DataBase (use 'ghost town' as the search keyword).
But in Los Angeles, isn't the entire city a dream realized in the ghost towns of the hollywood backlots?
images from the LAtimes
Skidoo, CA - in Death Valley
Frisco, Utah
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spooky...tis the season
interesting...it reminded me of a news story i heard recently about a guy that is selling his city on eBay. he bought land on this ghost town and spent some $$$ cleaning up the buildings and did some master planning for parks and tourism and is now selling the whole city with the master plans on eBay for 2.5 million as a reserve price...
the city: Albert, TX[i think it's in texas...]
i'll see if i can't find it and i'll link post the link a little later...
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