ニューヨーク・タイムズさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ニューヨーク・タイムズInstagram)「Nipton, California, has one main road and about two dozen residents. Entrepreneurs with dreams of turning it around have come and gone. Will this time be different? Ross Mollison is Nipton’s most recent badlands baron. His company, Spiegelworld, which produces sybaritic adult circuses in Las Vegas, bought the town last year for $2.5 million. Mollison said he wanted to turn the unincorporated town, with no local government and a penchant for attracting people who prefer to stay off the grid, into a retreat for circus performers to workshop new acts, as well as a luxury attraction for tourists on their way to Las Vegas. Nipton is currently little more than a peeling one-room schoolhouse, an empty general store, a five-bed hotel and a small cluster of forgotten cabins. The residents are primarily clustered in a small RV park. Most are seasonal miners who stay for a few months at a time and keep to themselves. In February, Mollison hosted a party complete with performers and a festive sukiyaki dinner. “The first time they brought all the performers out here, in their outfits and costumes, it was a culture shock,” said Nathan Will, who came to Nipton last January to take a construction job at the nearby rare earth mineral mines. “But it’s gotten cleaner and more dependable, and you have someone here if something goes wrong.” Tap the link in our bio to learn more about Mollison’s plans for this California ghost town. Photos by @arianadrehsler」5月11日 1時19分