Tragedy Strikes In The Ghost Town of Cerro Gordo

we're gonna need a lot of help the American Hotel originally thought in 1871 and pretty much everybody's favorite building here on site it is the home of our saloon so this is a place where after a long day's work in the mines miners would come in check in there get a beer here is this not that I love entertaining people and they come up to Cerro Gordo now the bar is just stunning fun fact that I know is that painting there it was bought at a Nevada brothel and that dress was actually painted on afterwards originally as a nude photograph which is kind of an insider tip then I'll out who will know that woman down there that is Lola Travis and Lola owned all the brothels in town she was one they did not mess with they said that if you disagreed with her she'd called a gun and answer your questions pretty quick so she's a pretty legendary figure here around Cerro Gordo the saloon has two old pianos in it still which are pretty cool they're out of soon I know once the piano I know [Music] happy birthday but while it's gonna be royally capital-intensive I can't wait to get this place humming again and imagine you know people coming up and once again enjoying a beer here it's gonna be a lot of fun over here in this room is just more artifacts so there's this is actually a record machine I don't know if you know this but back in the day the records were around like that and so they looked something kind of like this they were coming a package similar to this and the name would be the top so this is an old record some beautiful sewing machine different things and upstairs is where the rooms used to be and there were bunk rooms those big for miners and no visitors have been allowed upstairs and quite a number of years it's not structurally sound up there the views in this room are just gonna be incredible and so I can't wait to get that room going they have a bore stopping it but I hear there's a deck that really nobody's allowed on because you through through the windows out here it's beautiful you know what I can't wait to bring back the old owners put these carpet squares on top of this particle board stuff and they put it down to hundreds of small nails screws and larger nails then you rip all that up beautiful hardwood [Music] there's just thousands of staples nails everywhere so the next step is to get all all those that's looking a lot better eventually we're upstairs in the hotel this could be a beautiful suite all right let's see how the progress is going up here and that is what we're working with in that room ah came a long ways from Ordos up night before that's that's the upstairs of the hotel now about about five hours ago around 2:00 2:30 in the morning a fire burned down our hotel here at Cerro Gordo the American Hotel and we don't know why could have been all electric never the fire happened this used to be the Crapo house here this is the little store with an antique sign out front that was Dora cart this was though it's been very emotional day or two I just don't know weekend you know this is a front door so the view I used to give was walking up these stairs and out and up I see the top of the hotel then pan down and see it we've been working most days till relief to get the place ready for people investing almost last three months and last night I woke up to an explosion of the propane tank in the hotel but I got outside the building was already halfway down i called 9-1-1 around 3:00 a.m. and by that point the hotel was essentially gone this is the beautiful wood burning stove in the middle of motel here this would have been towards the kitchen that at the beautiful cast-iron stove refrigerator this used to be the ice house over here the building with kind of the wood as you can see the fire units are you going out towards the Gordon we used all the water we could to protect the line of that until the fire department could get here but we're gonna need a lot of help we need people to help clean we need people to help try to rebuild it and we need money to do so it's at telling me means a lot to a lot of people including myself watching your hopes dreams life savings love history that will never replace to go up in flames and it's hard this is three days later now and I still don't like you leaving the building to look at it but you know when something like this happens a lot of people have supported us some people that really know the town wall know me well and they've been extremely supportive and they reminded me that hey you know like it or not good or bad this is part of Cerberus history now you know what other option do we have we could give up or we could rebuild and we have the original floor plans we found those not even a week before you know this happened and somebody asked me or somebody wrote on something that I heard you guys are gonna throw in the towel and sell it I'm not we're not giving up I'm gonna die at Cerro Gordo you know this isn't a project this isn't a start-up I don't think about it in month over month growth the timeline here is decades it's not years it's not months it's not days or hours and Cerro Gordo is gonna be here after I'm gone and there's gonna be a hotel here and that hotel is gonna have the story of you know the fire of 2020 and it's up to us to make that happen right now we could use some help a lot of you have been very supportive over the town in our progress and if you could donate we can use any dollar that's given is going directly into this and you can buy a 2x4 for us that's a 2x4 we wouldn't have otherwise so anything would really really help I would really appreciate it so many people will appreciate it for history because they be able to you know experience this town and a hotel if you health can fill if you're close and you have any type of construction skills or cleaning skills or even you know a truck to help move some stuff we need the help - we need the manpower I have this form we created to put in here info we'll figure out dates and I thought they'd see something if you all here helping out I wish I was but under better circumstances but it's not I really appreciate it everybody help so far this is the time when I know there's a lot bigger issues going on in the world and it seems silly to be asking for help with a old building but it's an old building that means a lot to a lot of people and it's it's that time where as a port you know timing is we need the help so if you can help out at all I'd really really appreciate it and told a lot of other people and if nothing else if you just share the links share this link but thanks for making it this far and we're gonna rebuild one of the option do we have but rebuild so let's get to it you

Channel: Ghost Town Living

Views: 969,531

Rating: 4.9234858 out of 5

Keywords: cerro gordo, death valley ghost town, ghost town, nevada ghost town, california ghost town, death valley, inyo mountains, inyo ghost town, urbex, urban exploration, death valley urbex, abandoned cabin, death valley cabin, jody patterson, abandoned, abandoned house, abandoned mine, mining town, inyo mine, keeler ca, owens valley, eastern sierra, eastern sierra ghost town, wild west ghost town, wild west saloon, adam lambert ghost town, building destroyed, building fire

Id: NQ3CWspDCzE

Length: 11min 34sec (694 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 18 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/skrybll]

That guy cried like I imagine zuckerberg would.

[u/HonkforUsername]

Insurance fraud strikes the town of Cerro MoneyPito.

[u/mdopoiex1]

So a building money pit that has been standing for over 150 yrs with no problems suddenly starts on fire at 2am? got it.

[u/ETosser]

Just be thankful you didn't actually have guests, because your not-remotely-up-to-anything-resembling-modern-building-codes tourist attraction could have killed people.