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Flashyfashionfraud
Location: Los Angeles, CA Gender: Neither Total Likes: 187 likes
| | | | Byron Abandoned Hot Springs Resort < on 9/16/2013 8:38 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | 1. The construction of the hotel began in 1878 that included dining rooms, a post office, offices and other public rooms in addition to a laundry room, gas plant and ice plant, opening on August 17, 1889. On July 25, 1901, a fire destroyed the hotel, a cottage with 20 rooms, the ice plant, gas plant and laundry room. All guests on the site escaped with their belongings, but the fire was unable to be controlled. Following the fire, construction began on a new hotel and built across from the site of where the first hotel had stood. By 1903, the Byron Hot Springs Company was founded and people from all around the Bay would come to the Hot Springs, where they could play tennis, golf, billiards, ride horses, relax in the gardens or spend time in the baths. However, this would soon come to an end as well, for on the morning of July 18, 1912, fire broke out in the hotel, rapidly spreading among the floors. Like the first time, everyone was able to escape, but the hotel was destroyed once again. Following the second fire, James Reid came back again to build the third and final hotel, opening for business in 1914. Built out of brick and concrete (to be fireproof) this structure cost about $150,000 to build and spread across 4 levels. However, it’s success as a resort soon declined with the 1930s and the Great Depression, with the Byron Hot Springs closing up. In addition World War 2 was underway and as prisoners of war began to arrive, the government realized the need for special camps, referred to as Interrogation Centers, two were established, one on each Coast (Fort Hunt in Alexandra, Virginia and the Camp Tracy in Byron, California) Camp Tracy was the new name for the Byron Hot Springs during its use by the government, no more than 51 prisoners stayed on the property at one time, though almost 921 Japanese and 645 German prisoners were interrogated at Camp Tracy. Throughout the use, the army remodeled most of the Byron Hot Springs, built a garage and laid new sewer lines to the property. By September 1, 1945, Camp Tracy was ordered closed and the army released the property, it again became known as the Byron Hot Springs. Plans to redo the resort surfaced a few years ago, adding a golf course and apparently remodeling the existing structure, but I doubt those plans are going through, as for in 2013, it still sits abandoned along a lonely road known as Byron Hot Springs Road awaiting the chapter in it’s troubled life.1. 2. 3. 4.
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| Clostridium
Location: SF Bay Area Gender: Male Total Likes: 82 likes
We'll see the city's ripped backsides
| | | Re: Byron Abandoned Hot Springs Resort < Reply # 12 on 1/7/2014 2:50 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Visited this site about a month back. Place seems even more run down than everyone else's photos. No kid with gun, no one else. 1. Obligatory 2. Main hallway 3. Second floor 4.Location of a toilet. Apparently when Byron was Camp Tracy, the Army had punched little vents in the bathrooms so that prisoners could "secretly" talk to each other. Of course everything was tapped with secret microphones. 5. 6. Elevator shaft and lift 7. Third Floor 8. Facade is even more defaced 9. 10. 11. Truck's done gone burned to a crisp 12. Apparently, I was a day off from the 112th anniversary of the Great Byron Train Disaster. On Dec 20, 1902, the Owl Limited from Oakland had sprung a steam leak and idled a little South of Byron. Meanwhile the Southern Pacific Stockton Flyer was running late, and had picked up speed in an attempt to make lost time. Just outside the Byron Hot Springs, the Flyer rammed into the rear of the Owl and pulverized the rear passenger car and damaged the diner car. Twenty-eight people were killed and dozens more wounded, the dying and hurt brought over to the Hot Springs Hotel which was converted to a hospital. Apparently some of the people of Byron came to help, others to loot. Byron Hot Springs is claimed to be haunted, though I have not found any stories outside of the usual ghost hunter and teenage urban legends. 13. Dead cow. Looks like it fell into the ditch and broke its pelvis.
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