Corbis via Getty Images Clint Eastwood in 1966’s “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.” Courtesy Everett Collection In an aerial view, the foundation of a building that was once submerged is seen on Jduring a previous drought. Corbis via Getty Images A stage coach in the long-sunken town of Whiskey Flat.
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Can-Can girls, photographed for a series on the underwater town.
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Indeed, Whiskey Flat was “a town of miners, outlaws, secessionists and hard-working ranchers who had quick tempers, fast guns and their own code of swift justice,” one 2004 Los Angeles Times recollection summarized. 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.
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