By Ken Brafman, Image from ROWHS Collection TITLE: SATAN’S CASTLE AND OTHER HAUNTS: With Halloween nearly upon us it’s time to visit a few of our more famous spooky mountain tales. There was the 8-year-old girl named Hanna who died in Room 33 at the Saddleback Inn. She’s reported to still be seen there and …
Category: October 2020
MILEPOSTS #998
By Bill Pumford, Image from Duane Banner Collection TITLE: DEER LODGE PARK – FORWARD TO TODAY: This week’s image shows the interior of the Dance Pavilion from the late 1920’s with couples enjoying one of the frequent dances held there. The most intriguing plan for Deer Lodge Park was for the creation of a lake …
MILEPOSTS #997
By Bill Pumford, Image from Russ Keller Collection TITLE: DEER LODGE PARK — BEGINNINGS: This week’s image is a photo from 1923 or 1924 of the Lodge during construction. On the left part of the building is the Lodge and on the right the Dance Pavilion. Deer Lodge Park is a development located a little …
MILEPOSTS #996
By Ken Brafman, Image from ROWHS Collection TITLE: THE LEGACY OF THE CCC: When Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office in 1933 one of his first orders of business was to establish the CCC. The new agency would perform complex work devoted to forestry, the prevention of soil erosion, flood control, firefighting, building of parks and …
MILEPOSTS #995
By Ken Brafman, Image from Warner Brothers Archives TITLE: MOUNTAIN MOVIES: HIGH SIERRA: This week’s image is of a movie poster for the film High Sierra from 1941, which has the distinction of having used four mountain area filming locations. After being released from prison, notorious thief Roy ‘Mad Dog’ Earle is hired by his …