Adventures in California History @pitsenberger
20th century and earlier. Editor, "The Traveler" https://t.co/9eCaaAIy8N, VP, @LincolnHwyAssoc., Donner Summit Historical Society https://t.co/gQ8ciAyQvt pitsenberger.com Garden Valley, California Joined November 2007-
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When TC Wohlbruck leased the PG&E lookout at Emigrant Gap, he went to work adding a small lodge and cafe for the new automobile travelers. This photo, c. 1920, shows the cafe set right on the cliff overlooking Bar Valley, which is to the left. In 1920, people who lived during the…
Before the Nyack Lodge was built, the site at Emigrant Gap had a lookout built by P.G.&E. so you could stop and watch the construction of Lake Spaulding just to the east. The site was not manned and soon fell into disrepair. TC Wholbruck, whose c. 1920 postcard we are looking at,…
A group of people stand on the deck of the Summit Hotel, Donner Summit, c. 1910. The railroad snowsheds are on the left, while a covered gangway goes from the sheds to the hotel. Because of the gangway, the road in front of us winds around the building. Believe it or not, in…
Salmon Falls once Had Falls, but Folsom Reservoir has inundated it. In the 1920s, the rocks were blasted away, helping with logging operations that floated timber down the American River. Salmon Falls started in 1849 with miners working the creeks, including Sweetwater Creek,…
Looking down at Blue Canyon, c. 1910. Blue Canyon was an essential stop for the Central Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroad. It was here that the snow sheds began and continued all the way up and over Donner Summit. You can see the sheds at the bottom of the photograph. The…
This is the Auburn Ski Club hill at Cisco Grove, circa 1930. The flat area is now occupied by Interstate 80, but at the time, the Lincoln Highway/Highway 40 was the road to take. The State still did not plow the roads from Baxter over the summit, so the ski club plowed the road…
High schooler Sherwood Clark knows enough not to incriminate himself in the newsprint!
High schooler Sherwood Clark knows enough not to incriminate himself in the newsprint!
When the Lincoln Lincoln Highway was dreamed up in 1913, the route was marked across the country with red, white, and blue signs with a blue "L" that would be painted on telephone poles. We can see it in the fourth row down, fourth from the left. This poster shows us that many…
This shot looks east of the Nyack Lodge in Winter, circa 1950. Again, we can see Lake Spaulding on the left while Highway 40 and the mainline of the Transcontinental Railroad pass by on the right. Today, we pass over the railroad line on Interstate 80, but back then, Highway 40…
The massive entrance to the Nyack Lodge at Emigrant Gap, c. 1949. It was built using local stone by Herstle Jones, a master stone mason. Herstle also built the Rainbow Lodge, which still stands at Big Bend. This place was so well built that to remove it, they had to blast some of…
This photo has no date, but looking at the set-up, it may be c.1950s. This is the dining room at the Nyack Lodge at Emigrant Gap, with its fantastic view of the mountains and Bear Valley far below. This was a popular place to stop along the old Highway 40. It was a time when…
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Alcatraz pic. Soldiers manning cannon in South Battery, 1864. One of a series of photos taken on the island during the Civil War. The War Dept was outraged and ordered them destroyed. A handful turned up, misidentified, in the Sacramento History Center collection in the 1990s.
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These were everywhere as I grew up!
Love the stories of Old California's Emigrant Gap traveling path
When TC Wohlbruck leased the PG&E lookout at Emigrant Gap, he went to work adding a small lodge and cafe for the new automobile travelers. This photo, c. 1920, shows the cafe set right on the cliff overlooking Bar Valley, which is to the left. In 1920, people who lived during the…
@pitsenberger Was it you who told us how the Yuba River captured ALL of the Bear River's watershed? It's amazing to stand at that overlook and see what went down in the geologic past. 😳
It's taken me 5 years but I finally have hit the 250 subscriber mark on YouTube.
Theodore A. White enlisted as a private in the 43rd North Carolina Infantry Company K “Anson County Independents” on 25 Feb 1862 at the age of 16. He was wounded in the left leg at the Battle of Gettysburg on July 2nd 1863. White was evacuated with the rest of the wounded and…
Alcatraz pic. Following the Civil War, the army built several wooden cellblocks to hold the growing number of military convicts on the island. Up to 435 men were housed in these closet-sized cells. No lights, sanitation, beds or ventilation. The cells here lasted until 1907.
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@pitsenberger Is the old lookout where the current overlook is?
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“The Stampede” by Frederic Remington.
Alcatraz pic. This is the earliest known photo of prisoners on Alcatraz. Military convicts (i.e., soldiers convicted of crimes) are cutting down an island slope and using wheelbarrows to dump the tailings. Notice the armed guard at center. Taken by Eadweard Muybridge in 1869.
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