It looks like you had a self-guided tour. Coyotte Hills Regional Park
(East Bay end of Dumbarton Bridge) used to have guided tours which
were the only "permitted" way to visit. I think it was around 1980
that someone burned most of the town down. I was told both Alviso and
especially Drawbridge were built for duck hunters ... boys night out?
-jeff
On 6/7/07, Richard <richard-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Within the spitting distance of million dollars 3 bedroom starter
> homes, lie a ghost town where the abandoned houses and sheds are
> slowing sinking into the Bay. Drawbridge has always been a no man's
> land, sitting in an island outside of San Jose and the then small
> town of Alviso. In the 20s and 30s, half of the town is filled with
> brothels as the police feared to tread in a town where nearly
> everyone was armed.
>
> The last inhabitant left in 1979. In a scant twenty years, nothing
> remains except broken down shells of former houses and foot bridge to
> nowhere. The whole set is here:
> http://www.dragonsgate.net/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=3232
>
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