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There is a large ghost town called Rhyolite, Nevada that had 10,000 residents at its height in 1905. It was a thriving town built around the discovery of gold, while the nearby town of Las Vegas was just a watering hole for people heading to Rhyolite. More impressively it also boasted 50 saloons!
Understandably, this house was built out of cemented beer bottles by Tom Kelly in 1906. It was restored in 1925 by Paramount Pictures.
The bank building was used in the 2005 film The Island.
Typical for boom towns, the city had only 20 residents in 1920, even as electricity and utilities were cut off a few years earlier. By all accounts, though, the town is in pretty good shape for being over 100 years old and abandoned for most of that.
Understandably, this house was built out of cemented beer bottles by Tom Kelly in 1906. It was restored in 1925 by Paramount Pictures.
The bank building was used in the 2005 film The Island.
Typical for boom towns, the city had only 20 residents in 1920, even as electricity and utilities were cut off a few years earlier. By all accounts, though, the town is in pretty good shape for being over 100 years old and abandoned for most of that.
