Genre: aerial views / Location: Big Bear Lake (Calif.) / Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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Description:: Aerial view of Big Bear Lake, looking west, with Metcalf Bay and Boulder Bay at top left, Grout Bay at top right
Date:: [1920s or 1930s?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Possibly related to the article “Big Bear Lake is Gem Crowning Mountain Top, Nature’s Charms Allure in Region Visited by Scout Party, Years Bring Many Improvements.” Los Angeles Times, 26 May 1935. The article states: "… To obtain first hand facts about this wonder area, The Times scout car … rolled up into the San Bernardino Mountains the other day. Smooth pavement all the way from First and Broadway to the village of Pine Knot seemed almost incredible, but it is there, for the State has spent $1,500,000 building this de luxe roadway, and reducing the grade, which had run as high as 16 per cent, to a maximum of 4 per cent, creating one of the most ideal mountain roads in the world. …"
Date:: [1935?]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection