Jerome, The Almost, Ghost City......

Well, not really a ghost city.  There are about 500 people living in this very old mining town.  At one time it had over 10,000 resident miners, mining copper, silver, gold and a couple of other minerals from the Cleopatra Mountain....   And then, everything started going bust, the trees had been stripped off the land for buildings, fire burned the town down 3 or 4 times, disease, and the financial crash.
   Today, the town refers to itself as a "ghost town", even though people still live there.  It has wonderful food, is very windy, has the greatest views, and.... oh, by the way, be careful....    The buildings are sliding down the mountain as there is nothing left to hold the soil and rock.  Their jail is currently about 3/4 of the way down to the next level.  Everywhere you look, the sides of the roads are shored up with rock, steel, metal, wood, braces.... anything to help keep the land from slipping further.
    My blip is a soda machine one of the mine owners brought into the Morgan Mansion around the 1900's to serve carbonated beverages to his family and business associates.  Another very interesting fact that we found was the Seismograph that is still working today monitoring the mountain.   It reads the ground movement every 30 minutes.  There are small tremors going on underneath the mountain that are being measured.  This machine is very old, but very accurate....  it took 16 minutes to record the last earth quake in Indonesia and it read the last 6.5 quake in California.
Those are the extras today.   

A fascinating place, full of history, with incredible vistas!