By Ken Brafman, Image from ROWHS Collection TITLE: OUTLET TOWER ON LAKE ARROWHEAD: This week’s image is a photo of one of the new exhibits at our Mountain History Museum in Lake Arrowhead. In 1907 the Arrowhead Reservoir and Power Company awarded a contract to Los Angeles contractor Arthur S. Bent to build an outlet …
MILEPOSTS #1028
By Bill Pumford, Image from ROWHS Collection TITLE: TWIN PEAKS YEAR-O-ROUND STORE: This week’s image is a photo of the Year-O-Round store located in present-day Twin Peaks. During the early 1920s Greg and Julia Dexter, the builders of the Alpine Terrace, determined that a store that would be open all year was needed in Twin …
MILEPOSTS #1027
By Ken Brafman, Image from Ken Brafman Collection TITLE: PINECREST – THE EARLY YEARS: This week’s image is a postcard from the Pinecrest Mountain Resort. It’s an artist rendering of the Roundhouse inside the circular pavilion on the Pinecrest grounds. Pinecrest was built by Dr. John Baylis, an important pioneer who had a great love …
MILEPOSTS #1026
By Bill Pumford, Image from Russ Keller Collection TITLE: SKYLAND INN: One of the best-known early resorts in the San Bernardino Mountains was the Skyland Inn in Skyland Heights, before the area had acquired the name of Crestline. In 1901 Noah Rogers sold 160 acres which had been known at that time as Rogers Camp …