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Vintage Wrightwood photos
WWMtnGal:
Robert,
How wonderful that you have such wonderful memories of your childhood and spending your vacations here. Thank you so much for sharing your memories with us and I will look forward to any other photos you might want to share of days gone by and our village. Again thank you!
:D
Wrightwood:
Old bumper sticker from the early 80's
RobertW:
Twin Lakes use to be a popular hang out. Notice the "old Fountain" in the far background in this 1948 picture.
Locals would even swim the lake at night.
Will we have a winter like that pictured in a flyer about Wrightwood in the early 80's?
Wrightwood:
RobertW:
I remember the mudslide of 1969 very vividly. I'm trying to find the picture of my brother and I standing on the roof of that very home in the above posted picture. When I do, I'll post it.
I was 14 years old and remember standing at highway 2 where the flood channel crossed the highway. It looked like cement with boulders the size of cars just barely made it under the bridge. It was pretty scary! If I remember correctly, the highway was damaged and the town was cut off from Hwy 138 for a period of time. My mother remembers the mudslide of the 40s which took out much of Lone Pine Canyon road.
While the county/state has provided a very nice "spillway" for future mudslides, there was an article not too many years ago in the Los Angeles Times that talked about geologists saying that there is a fissure between the Heath Creek and Sheep Creek mudslides, connecting them. Geologist believe that eventually the two slides will connect and the mountain between the two will come down, taking out much of Wrightwood.
Let's hope not!
We need rain, but let's hope it comes in manageable amounts, hopefully snow, without a quick thaw as the result of a warm spring.
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