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Fascinated y Ghost Towns [I Am Fascinated By Ghost Towns]

Have been through several, interesting to see what was there. What life was like.
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cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
My grandfather lived in a tiny village that was practically a ghost town, it was a bustling little farm town till after WWII, the railroad was no longer needed to transport grains & other crops & farm supplies and when it closed because people could buy tires & gasoline then people starting moving away. Most of the houses stood empty, there was an old bank that looked like something out of Bonanza but it hadn’t been used since the late 40’s, a General Store that also looked like it was built in the 1800’s, had a pot-bellied stove, wood floors, an old-time cash-register etc., and a blacksmith shop that had been bought by someone to use to repair tractors and other farm equipment. We loved to explore the empty homes, none of them locked, one old Victorian house included, and we found the old school that had been closed since about 1948 too.
HopalongMJ · M
@cherokeepatti I just find them fascinating. Some of the ghost towns in New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona....still standing.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@HopalongMJ the arid climate is probably really helpful in preserving it. I always wanted to visit some of them but not the touristy fake ones.
HopalongMJ · M
@cherokeepatti I think climate does preserve them. Though, there's a lot of interest in preserving too. I've been to several that you have to travel on dirt roads practically to get to. Been there so long people forgot about them.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@HopalongMJ I bet you have to watch for rattlesnakes and scorpions when you are out exploring
HopalongMJ · M
@cherokeepatti Definitely have to watch for them in the summer.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@HopalongMJ we used to go on long walks along farm roads in Missouri and find abandoned houses, little old frame homes, there wouldn’t be much inside but it was interesting to see how they were made, oilcloth wallpaper on the walls, roll-up shades on the windows, and in several a calendars hanging on the walls with the year they moved out. Sometimes there’d be flowers still growing like irises around the abandoned houses.
HopalongMJ · M
@cherokeepatti Some of those old houses have held up. They knew how to build then. I like old barns, too.