The lawless, often murderous home of many colorful characters is credited with helping inspire Clint Eastwood flicks, including “The Good, The Bad and the Ugly,” and is arguably the origin of the quick draw archetype, according to SFGate. The drowned town’s lore is so notorious that, while usually not physically accessible, its stories have never really vanished from culture. “We have the ability to look with more clarity,” he said of the ephemerally exposed old foundations. While Lake Isabella’s current 8% capacity water levels have caused “so much hand-wringing,” some see the 20-foot drop in water as an opportunity, Kern River Valley building contractor and draftsman Michael Downey tells the news outlet. “There are still stories of an untold Old West here.” “I don’t think you’re going to find any dead bodies like Lake Mead, but there certainly are old ghosts around those buildings,” Chuck Barbee, a local resident and cinematographer working on a documentary about Whiskey Flat and the larger Kern River Valley area, told the publication. Where usually there’s water, there are now exposed foundations from a bygone era.Īt California’s Lake Isabella, a dry spell has caused the manmade lake to divulge what lies beneath: the long-sunken town of Whiskey Flat.Īfter World War II, in the early 1950s, the US government damned the area and built a reservoir, blowing up most of the abandoned town and leaving only the exploded foundations of its general store, jail and Methodist church there - structures that now visibly poke up from the near-empty lake’s bottom, SFGate reported. Gondolas stranded in Venice as Italy faces another drought New Easter Island statue discovered as drought conditions worsen Widespread drought deals nation’s breadbasket significant blowĪncient monastery built hundreds of years ago finally visible after ‘exceptional’ drought leaves reservoir empty
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