Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/06/07

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Drawbridge, a ghost town in the Silicon Valley
From: richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard)
Date: Thu Jun 7 19:03:26 2007

Within the spitting distance of million dollars 3 bedroom starter 
homes, lie a ghost town where the abandoned houses and sheds are 
slowing sinking into the Bay. Drawbridge has always been a no man's 
land, sitting in an island outside of San Jose and the then small 
town of Alviso. In the 20s and 30s, half of the town is filled with 
brothels as the police feared to tread in a town where nearly 
everyone was armed.

The last inhabitant left in 1979. In a scant twenty years, nothing 
remains except broken down shells of former houses and foot bridge to 
nowhere.
http://www.dragonsgate.net/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=3232

My wife took some digital photos which I will process in the next few days.

// richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, 
please use richard at imagecraft.com) 


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