Sam Leon Bar.  Complete with roulette tables and piano.

Chinatown.  Bodie's Chinese residents - at one time, several hundred of them, lived in this part of town and maintained their separate customs and traditions.  Wood frame buildings (some built over stone cellars) lined the narrow central street.  A town within a town, the Chinese quarter offered residents a full range of services including general stores, laundries, gambling halls, saloons, boarding houses, and even a Taoist temple.  Opium parlors were open to Caucasian and Chinese alike.  The main sources of income for the Chinese came from peddling vegetables, operating laundries, and cutting, hauling and selling firewood.

Inside the town jail, you can see the thick cell door.  Only one prisoner is known to have escaped.  Bail for "guests" was $5.  Joseph DeRoche was taken from here by the Bodie "601," a vigilante group, and hanged.

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