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Recently Purchased Californian Ghost Town to get New Lease of Life as a Tourist Attraction | Westworld Anyone?

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An abandoned ghost town left for ruin in California’s Death Valley has been purchased for an undisclosed fee between $1-1.5-million by a group of investors, and will soon be getting a new lease on life. The 19th-century mining town, Cerro Gordo originally went on the market for just under $1 million in June. After a bidding war that involved potential buyers looking […]

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Cerro Gordo, CA for Sale: Buy Your Piece of the American West

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Katy Shipley | June 13, 2018
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Salmon Freeski TV: “Ghost Town”

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Salomon really put some energy into this one. Fake newspapers, recreated scenes from a busted British Columbia boom town, a scratchy voiced narrator… The Salomon Freeski team got Josh Daiek, Mike Henitiuk & Kieran Nikula up to an old ghost town in B.C. to rip powdery pillows and create a fun/different video. Both were easily achieved. In the mid 1800’s, BC’s mountain towns boomed as prospectors flocked north during the great gold rush. Josh Daiek, […]

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