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Public Forums => Wrightwood History => Topic started by: Wrightwood on Dec 08, 14, 08:24:18 AM
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A view of the Swartout Valley Lodge at Big Pines Camp in September, 1926. There is a sign on top of the building with the name of the lodge and the words 'Cafe' and 'Store' underneath. The building contained a store, restaurant, soda fountain, and post office. Several automobiles are parked in front of the lodge, with people walking past. They are dressed in knit hats, mittens, snow boots and warm coats. Snow is on the ground and on the hill behind the lodge. One man is carrying a toboggan.
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A parade through the arch entryway at Big Pines Camp to begin the Winter Sports Carnival, February 3 & 4, 1934. A man in front is carrying the American flag and several others are carrying skis.
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1925 Los Angeles County Superintendent Fred E. Wadsworth (center) talks with two women at a viewpoint located at the summit of the Blue Ridge Mountains near Big Pines Camp. The San Gabriel Valley is present down below in the background.
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1927 A construction crew is working on the beginnings of the Big Pines swimming pool. The pool is surrounded by hills with pine trees. A pipe runs across the front view.
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1925 Campers dance the Virginia Reel near the fireplace of the main lodge at Big Pines Camp. A crowd in the background looks on.
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1925 Four men survey in preparation for the masonry construction of the large entrance into Big Pines Camp. From left to right: Los Angeles County Superintendent Fred E. Wadsworth, Los Angeles County supervisor R. F. McClellan, C.J. Herbold, and chief mechanical engineer William Davidson.
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Plowing 1928
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Plowing 1930
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Hockey 1930
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1927 Christmas Tree
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[My pictures are smaller. Please feel free to replace with larger ones if you have them...]
Playgrounds equipped with approved apparatus:
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The name was changed from Big Pine to Big Pines because of the Post Office confusing it with Big Pine, CA off of 395 up north.
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Dances were held every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturdays. Moving Pictures were shown on Wednesday at the Recreation Hall:
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Some campsites had metered Hot Plates. For 25 cents a camper could get two hours of heat:
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1934 Winter sports carnival at Big Pines
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Ski jump at Big Pines Camp during the Winter Sports Carnival, February 3 & 4, 1934
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1928 Ranger on horseback on a tree-lined dirt road with his five dogs following along in Big Pines.
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A close-up view of the swimming pool at Big Pines in September 1926
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1938 Big Pines Recreation Camp gate attendant
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1938 Swartout Valley
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1938 Swartout Valley Lodge parking lot
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Wow..... marvelous pictures!!!! Some here I have never seen before. Grand views!
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Oh, how I wish it was still like these pictures today! It looks like such a wonderful place for everyone. The pool, the dogs, the ice pageant, all of it. Wish I could have lived here when it was like that!!!!
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Ruben F. McClellan, left, and Alfred F. Moore at groundbreaking for a solar observatory on Table Mountain near Big Pines Recreation Camp in 1925.
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Big Pines Recreation Camp Supervisor R.F. McClellan with his horse in 1925.
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Big Pines Recreation Camp Supervisor R.F. McClellan on horseback in 1925.
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Dogsledding at Big Pines
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Photograph caption dated March 10, 1956 reads, "Practicing forward lean technique - With aid of ski poles, Mrs. Bob Crunlund of Van Nuys, novice skier, practices forward lean position. Her husband gives instruction at Table Mountain, Big Pines, beginners' paradise."
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A woman putting on snow shoes at Big Pines Winter Sports Carnival, February 3 & 4, 1934.
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1935 "Let 'er go. There is no age limit for tobogganists at Big Pines camp, los Angeles county playground. Note the smile" affixed to the front of the image.
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1925 Crowds watch as ski jumpers compete at Big Pines Camp.
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1925 The stone arch entrance to Big Pines Camp. Two large columns with parapets at the top support the arch on either side. Small, rectangular windows can be seen near the top of each column.
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1938 View of the community kitchen at the Big Pines camp in Los Angeles County.
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1938 Big Pines Recreation Camp building
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1938 People gather around a car at Big Pines Recreation Camp
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1938 People gather around a fallen skier at Big Pines Recreation Camp
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1938 People push a car that is stuck in the snow at Big Pines Recreation Camp. Another car has a rack on the top and two sets of skis and a sled next to it.
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1938 People mill about five cars at Big Pines Recreation Camp
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1938 Five people walk along the icy Angeles Crest Highway, just past a stone bridge that reads "Big Pines LA County Camp." The bridge towers originally located at the end of the Swartout Valley Lodge, mark the highest point on the San Andreas fault at 6862 feet. Only one tower remains because one was taken out when Highway 2 was widened.
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1938 Cars park right up to a snow bank in a parking lot by the Swartout Valley Lodge in the Big Pines Recreation Camp
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1938 Ethel Schultheis (left) walks with friends who own a dachshund along the icy Angeles Crest Highway, just past a stone bridge that reads "Big Pines LA County Camp
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1938 People unpack in the parking lot of the Swartout Valley Lodge, and a sign for the cafe can be seen on the porch. The icy Angeles Crest Highway and Big Pines Recreation Camp bridge are in the background
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1938 People walk up the steps to the Swartout Valley Lodge porch
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1938 Cars are parked in the lot in front of the Swartout Valley Lodge in the Big Pines Recreation Camp. Cabins can bee seen in the background
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1925 A group of people stand in front of the entrance holding their toboggans upright beside them. Other people without toboggans are walking through the entrance.
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1925 Three women, each wearing a different outfit, pose together in what appears to be a congratulatory event at Big Pines Camp.
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A crowd is gathered at a grandstand for the dedication of the arch at Big Pines Camp
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Before Big Pines Hwy or N4 it was more difficult to reach Big Pines:
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We can thank Bob C for creating a web page that includes many more Big Pine photos from the Los Angeles Public Library collection.
Click here for more Big Pine photos on the Los Angeles Public Library website (http://www.wrightwoodcalif.com/history/BigPines/BigPines.LA.Library.Links.html)
With much thanks to: Los Angeles Public Library (http://www.lapl.org) for hosting the photos
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And who was in charge of removing the arch over highway 2 at Big Pines?
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I read an article about Hwy widening and will see if I can find it.
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Respectfully I would question if that 1938 Big Pines Recreation Camp building was actually in Big Pines Park. Looking north, you can see the ridge line of Table Mountain in the picture. (look at it's shape. no ridge is like that in the Park that was a south facing slope). Looking at the ground area around the structure itself, it looks to have been around the flat area of present day Apple St, and Snowbird. It's interesting though. The Los Angeles Time had briefly mentioned a 'clubhouse area', in the Wrightwood area...different than the rec hall adjacent to the Wrightwood Lodge, which burned down in May of '37. I wonder if this was the structure. But it was mentioned as they were getting ready for the Winter Snow Carnival in the 30's, that was hosted by Wrightwood.
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1925
A view of the supervisor's cabin among the trees at Big Pines Camp. The cabin has a stone chimney. Big Pines Recreation Camp (elevation 6,862) was developed in 1923 by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and the Department of Parks and Recreation.
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Thanks for that last photo! Thats our cabin!!!
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Postcard showing cabins behind the lodge. They are now gone, but stairs give you an idea where they were...
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Don't recall if this one has been posted:
1925 William Davidson (left), chief mechanical engineer, and Fred E. Wadsworth, Los Angeles County Superintendent, survey in preparation for the masonry construction of the large entrance into Big Pines Camp.
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couple pics from my archives that I have not seen here yet. :2thumbsup:
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one pic of our cabin! You can see it in the lower right corner.
Other pic is of Table mountain rd, i believe.
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John, I know you were looking for maps like this. Here is a 1936 map if you don't have it. Shows a lot of structures in big pines. I have it in PDF if you want me to email. Its much larger. I also have this 1925 AAA map.
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1942 map of big pines. Shows a lot of the structures as well as designated camping area.
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I have been in contact with some surviving family members from certain LA county board of supervisors. I am starting to receive never seen before photos of Camp Mcclellan. I should have a bunch more very soon, but here are a couple from the mid 20's. Cabin 5,7,8 are shown here.
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Nice ones, too bad no cabins being constructed. I've been trying to find some :(
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Mike thanks for sharing
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I would love to see some construction ones as well.
I have a theory these were built at different times, perhaps over 2-3 years. What is interesting is that cabin 5 was owned by Woodley, cabin 4 was owned by Graves. Graves took office after Woodley. He took Woodleys place. So the question I have, were these built for each person as they came here? Or was a group of cabins built and handed out as seen fit? Or were all these guys buddies?
Lastly, there are two graded pads that were never developed on. Indicating the possibility of more cabins being built at one time. Lots of questions! LOL
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Grand job.... ;D ...keep 'em coming
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awesome share, thanks.... Woodley sure was an interesting person
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I really want to thank Barb. She is the one that supplied a map of our cabins with names of the original owners. This has opened up the flood gates in terms of research. She is forever in my gratitude.
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Here are some pictures from the Frashers Foto collection/database hosted by the Pomona Public Library: http://content.ci.pomona.ca.us/databases.php . They host these photos and they don't make it easy to link them here, so save them and host them if you wish:
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There was another sign?
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(http://content.ci.pomona.ca.us/cgi-bin/getimage.exe?CISOROOT=%2FFrasher&CISOPTR=851&DMWIDTH=750&DMHEIGHT=470.625&DMSCALE=93.75&DMX=0&DMY=0&DMTEXT=&DMTHUMB=1&DMROTATE=0)
Look at the shiny paint on that vintage whatever-it-is car...
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(http://content.ci.pomona.ca.us/cgi-bin/getimage.exe?CISOROOT=%2FFrasher&CISOPTR=850&DMWIDTH=750&DMHEIGHT=474.375&DMSCALE=93.75&DMX=0&DMY=0&DMTEXT=&DMTHUMB=1&DMROTATE=0)
(http://content.ci.pomona.ca.us/cgi-bin/getimage.exe?CISOROOT=%2FFrasher&CISOPTR=5098&DMWIDTH=750&DMHEIGHT=442.96875&DMSCALE=117.1875&DMX=0&DMY=0&DMTEXT=&DMTHUMB=1&DMROTATE=0)
This one seen earlier in this post:
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(http://content.ci.pomona.ca.us/cgi-bin/getimage.exe?CISOROOT=%2FFrasher&CISOPTR=100&DMWIDTH=750&DMHEIGHT=473.4375&DMSCALE=93.75&DMX=0&DMY=0&DMTEXT=&DMTHUMB=1&DMROTATE=0)
"Lake Big Pines" aka. Jackson Lake (right?)
(http://content.ci.pomona.ca.us/cgi-bin/getimage.exe?CISOROOT=%2FFrasher&CISOPTR=7673&DMWIDTH=750&DMHEIGHT=475.352112676&DMSCALE=117.370892019&DMX=0&DMY=0&DMTEXT=&DMTHUMB=1&DMROTATE=0)
(http://content.ci.pomona.ca.us/cgi-bin/getimage.exe?CISOROOT=%2FFrasher&CISOPTR=99&DMWIDTH=750&DMHEIGHT=468.75&DMSCALE=93.75&DMX=0&DMY=0&DMTEXT=&DMTHUMB=1&DMROTATE=0)
(http://content.ci.pomona.ca.us/cgi-bin/getimage.exe?CISOROOT=%2FFrasher&CISOPTR=862&DMWIDTH=750&DMHEIGHT=472.5&DMSCALE=93.75&DMX=0&DMY=0&DMTEXT=&DMTHUMB=1&DMROTATE=0)
(http://content.ci.pomona.ca.us/cgi-bin/getimage.exe?CISOROOT=%2FFrasher&CISOPTR=864&DMWIDTH=750&DMHEIGHT=473.4375&DMSCALE=93.75&DMX=0&DMY=0&DMTEXT=&DMTHUMB=1&DMROTATE=0)
(http://content.ci.pomona.ca.us/cgi-bin/getimage.exe?CISOROOT=%2FFrasher&CISOPTR=861&DMWIDTH=316.666666667&DMHEIGHT=500&DMSCALE=83.3333333333&DMX=0&DMY=0&DMTEXT=&DMTHUMB=1&DMROTATE=0)
(http://content.ci.pomona.ca.us/cgi-bin/getimage.exe?CISOROOT=%2FFrasher&CISOPTR=7678&DMWIDTH=750&DMHEIGHT=476.525821596&DMSCALE=117.370892019&DMX=0&DMY=0&DMTEXT=&DMTHUMB=1&DMROTATE=0)
(http://content.ci.pomona.ca.us/cgi-bin/getimage.exe?CISOROOT=%2FFrasher&CISOPTR=7677&DMWIDTH=750&DMHEIGHT=476.525821596&DMSCALE=117.370892019&DMX=0&DMY=0&DMTEXT=&DMTHUMB=1&DMROTATE=0)
(http://content.ci.pomona.ca.us/cgi-bin/getimage.exe?CISOROOT=%2FFrasher&CISOPTR=7676&DMWIDTH=750&DMHEIGHT=476.525821596&DMSCALE=117.370892019&DMX=0&DMY=0&DMTEXT=&DMTHUMB=1&DMROTATE=0)
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Better resolution photos from: http://calisphere.cdlib.org . Sorry for the duplication....I'd rather not have to go back and remove the lower resolution versions. Same disclaimer as above regarding saving these if necessary...
(http://imgzoom.cdlib.org/Converter?id=/13030/6p/kt9p30216p/files/kt9p30216p-z1.jp2&s=0.2978927203065134&r=0&x=0&y=0&w=1032&h=619)
(http://imgzoom.cdlib.org/Converter?id=/13030/6p/kt9p30216p/files/kt9p30216p-z1.jp2&s=0.2978927203065134&r=0&x=0&y=0&w=1032&h=619)
(http://imgzoom.cdlib.org/Converter?id=/13030/4f/kt2p30164f/files/kt2p30164f-z1.jp2&s=0.30238210986874087&r=0&x=0&y=0&w=986&h=619)
(http://imgzoom.cdlib.org/Converter?id=/13030/57/kt58701857/files/kt58701857-z1.jp2&s=0.3025291828793774&r=0&x=0&y=0&w=981&h=619)
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(http://imgzoom.cdlib.org/Converter?id=/13030/kg/kt167nc1kg/files/kt167nc1kg-z1.jp2&s=0.3695719125346474&r=0&x=0&y=0&w=1200&h=760)
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I'll pick up on this tomorrow. There are many more. Some duplicates from earlier in the thread, some duplicates of my previous post. That last link/source has some very nice high resolution scans of the pictures. I think even the versions I'm posting are about 1/2 of the resolution of the original scans, but I can't see a way to pull the better versions out of the website's viewer.
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Apologies for any duplication. The board Admin is welcome to remove any duplicates.
Big Pines Community kitchen
(http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics32/00065843.jpg)
Big Pine Buffalo
(http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics29/00064196.jpg)
(http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics29/00064197.jpg)
(http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics43/00071006.jpg)
(http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics43/00071007.jpg)
(http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics43/00071010.jpg)
(http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics42/00070999.jpg)
(http://jpg1.lapl.org/00099/00099762.jpg)
(http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics43/00071063.jpg)
(http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics42/00070984.jpg)
(http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics42/00070990.jpg)
(http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics42/00070934.jpg)
(http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics43/00071020.jpg)
(http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics43/00071064.jpg)
Blue Ridge
(http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics42/00070927.jpg)
(http://jpg1.lapl.org/00099/00099768.jpg)
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These faill under the category of "Wrightwood". The can be moved to an appropriate place.
(http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics24/00046680.jpg)
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Back to Big Pines, however the search term here is "Swartout". Apologies for any duplicates.
(http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics43/00071043.jpg)
(http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics43/00071026.jpg)
(http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics42/00070983.jpg)
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(http://jpg1.lapl.org/00099/00099710.jpg)
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From the California State Earthquake Investigation Commission Photographs collection, roughly 1900-1910. The photos aren't very interesting unless you try to put yourself in the head of a geologist from near the turn of the century trying to connect what he/she sees to earthquakes
"Sliding land on the line of the rift a little west of head of Swarthout Valley, north slope"
(http://cdn.calisphere.org/data/13030/vc/hb7k4008vc/files/hb7k4008vc-FID4.jpg)
"Ancient ridge on the rift near summit of mountains, leading from desert slope to head of Swartout [Swarthout]"
(http://cdn.calisphere.org/data/13030/g1/hb9r29p4g1/files/hb9r29p4g1-FID4.jpg)
"Hollow extending across the mountain crest, west of Swarthout Valley, north slope of San Gabriel Range"
(http://cdn.calisphere.org/data/13030/js/hb5199p1js/files/hb5199p1js-FID4.jpg)
I'm attaching a few more from this same collection since I believe these are from the same expedition. They look like they are Lone Pine Canyon and headed down to Lost Lake. Relocate to a different thread if necessary.
"Looking down the canyon toward Lower Cajon Canyon."
(http://cdn.calisphere.org/data/13030/93/hb2q2nb393/files/hb2q2nb393-FID4.jpg)
"Ridge of Mesa gravels on line of the rift on the north side of the mouth of the Cajon Canyon."
(http://cdn.calisphere.org/data/13030/3s/hb7f59p23s/files/hb7f59p23s-FID4.jpg)
This one is interesting since it looks like someone was harvesting and drying reeds in Lost Lake
"Looking east from lower end of canyon across lower end of Cajon Canyon Lake and meadow."
(http://cdn.calisphere.org/data/13030/mp/hb587007mp/files/hb587007mp-FID4.jpg)
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Hamilton and Nathan Swarthout, for whom the lodge/canyon is (mis)named. Taken in the late 1800s
Hamilton
(http://cdn.calisphere.org/data/13030/cv/kt500029cv/files/kt500029cv-d3e13217.jpg)
Nathan
(http://cdn.calisphere.org/data/13030/wv/kt2h4nd1wv/files/kt2h4nd1wv-d3e5287.jpg)
Emma, Nathan's wife
(http://cdn.calisphere.org/data/13030/1t/kt5290271t/files/kt5290271t-d3e5353.jpg)
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Great bit of history there, Joe! Thanks for sharing.
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Thank you, Joe!
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Here's some interesting FILM footage labelled "JUNIOR DERBY DOG RACE" from 1931! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRxMdUNdDW8
11-year old wins annual juvenile dog race classic in Big Pines, California. A great crowd gathers along the course of the fifth junior derby to watch boys and their pets, the latter harnessed to sleds in a contest of speed and endurance. Not huskies but regular mutts star here, with Lou, Bobby Howard's flashy fox terrier, topping the field.
If I'm not mistaken, this is from Big Pines!
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Awesome! More film! https://archive.org/details/cubanc_000125
The first three minutes of the film is Big Pines, the remainder is Balboa. It features:
- 00:00 - 01:06 Rangers working in the campgrounds
- 01:06 - 01:21 Brief shot of the ski jump adjacent to Jackson Lake, with a longer shot of Jackson lake and a vintage vehicle trundling down the road
- 01:21 - 01:37 Big Pines Ranger station and the arch, with moving vehicles.
- 01:33 Very quick shot west towards Wrightwood from the porch at the ranger station.
- 01:37 - 01:54 Fascination with a squirrel
- 01:54 - 02:23 Bears in a cage, being fed at the animal park. Elk (I believe), buffalo and a friendly reindeer at the animal park
- 02:23 - 02:40 The very beginnings of the work to create Angeles Crest highway, probably about halfway from Inspiration point to Islip saddle.
- 02:40 - 02:47 Shots of the very same people with the telecope equipment featured in the photos earlier in this thread. Both the photos and this video must have been shot by the same person. INTERESTING!
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Correction: not the same people with the telescope equipment as in earlier in the thread, but the same equipment. I swear I ran across a still photo of those three people. I think I must have misplaced that photo and omitted it by accident.
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Great find Joe!
Thanks for sharing
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Corrections: the Angeles Crest shot is halfway between Inspiration Point and Vincent Gap.
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Loved this! Thank you, Joe
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Mt. High East (found these under Holiday Hill) from 1956
(http://jpg1.lapl.org/00109/00109392.jpg)
"Loading ski sled - Don Zentmeyer of Van Nuys helps lift emergency rescue sled on chair lift. Zentmeyer is past president of Hochgebirg Skiers and senior patrolman on Holiday Hill Ski Patrol.
(http://jpg1.lapl.org/00109/00109391.jpg)
"Answer morning roll call - Valley members of Holiday Hill Ski patrol answer roll call. From left are Sandy Greenhut, patrol leader; Bobbe Rumbaugh, Ted Carder, Dick Roodberg, Robert Clodfelter, Don Cady, Dick Davis, Don Zentmeyer, Harry Peterson and Dale Rumbaugh. They are now ready for day's work on hills.
(http://jpg1.lapl.org/00109/00109394.jpg)
"Patrolwoman answers call - With first aid belt around her waist, Mrs. Dale Rumbaugh of Van Nuys, veteran ski patrolwoman, fastens Arlberg safety strap before going on ski patrol at Holiday Hill, Wrightwood. Mrs. Rumbaugh has swerved with volunteer ski patrol three years.
(http://jpg1.lapl.org/00109/00109398.jpg)
"Youth in ski lesson -Atop Holiday Hill, Wrightwood, Tom Liddell, 10, Lancaster, takes his first ski lesson from Bruce Tobian, left, instructor from North Hollywood. Proud father Robert Liddell, veteran skier, watches with interest. Beginners and intermediate skiers "bone up" on gentle slopes 8,500 feet up before attempting one and a half mile run downhill.
(http://jpg1.lapl.org/00109/00109397.jpg)
"Leaving Holiday Hill chair lift - Sue Kromer, left, Burbank, and Marilyn Ayers of Northridge, stand on skies as they get off chair lift atop Holiday Hill, Wrightwood. Skiers ride cable-powered lift uphill to save energy for strenuous downhill run.
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These are great! I remember Dale Rumbaugh. I knew his sons!
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I am fortunate to have two of those original chairs with numbers and the original paint. One of these days they'll carry humans again as a swing.
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Wonderful photos! Thanks for sharing.
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AWESOME PICTURES, and tidbits of information! Great post! Thanks