Love the beach at Bliss!

I'm glad this brought back some melancholy memories to some.
The summer storms were fantastic. My little brother and I were warned by my Dad that the lightning assosiated with these storms could kill us. Once we were paddling around in the lake when one of the storms began, 2 little guys that I know really figured out how to "move it" back to shore.
Neo; thanks for searching for the link as I am not good at pasting and cutting and linking etc. I remember now, the Whittel name and how this man was so rich that he had wild animals such as Tigers and Elephants roaming his (was it Glenbrook?) compound.
The Black Bat! ok!
who would forget that boat? There are hundreds of different wooden boats (models) that populate the lake and I love to see and hear of them.
The days between 1970 and @1977 are the most carefree, precious days of my life and my memories of Tahoe and the fun my little brother and I had together are my most treasured.
Thanks for sharing, Pil.

What a fun thread! Close friends of ours would invite us up to spend time with them in the husbands parent's Homewood house which I believe was built in the 1920's. A beautiful old two story house (except that it only had one bathroom) with a stone fireplace that was large enough one could stand inside of it. A private beach, boathouse and dock. We spent beautiful times there during the 1960's and early 1970's and then sadly our friends father sold the property. They had a Bristol wood boat. I met the Bristol brothers, owners of the company more then once when they displayed their boats at the annual boat show at the Cow Palace in SSF. There was also kyaks (sp?) and as I have posted before my girlfriend and I almost drowned in Lake Tahoe when the kyak tipped over thanks to some idiot on shore throwing rocks at us. The fellows loved to go fishing and basically cooked the main course every evening. Good times and wonderful memories. Good cocktails too each evening on an old fashion large porch overlooking the lake.

I've been trying to remember if Fallen Leaf Lake was a protected area or if there was some nascent development there. What does it look like today?

Pildredge, those must have been great times you had. I had great times there as well. To me, Tahoe is one of the grandest places in the country.

Does anyone remember a place in Tahoe City that was called the Tahoe city Inn, or something like that? I remember, as a child, eating there with my brother and father. We chose the salisbury steak. Alas, we were up all night getting sick. One of my few bad memories of Tahoe.

Oh Chris, there is nothing like food poisoning to make one remember a restaurant and what they ate. I have had that twice while on the road, once in Barstow at a popular friend chicken restaurant and once at a very new and lovely but obviously not a well managed Mexican restuarant in the SF/Bay Areas when returning home from a trip.

Fallen Leaf back then had a string of cabins along the shore, and two cabin resorts at the far end---Craven's Lodge and the Stanford Camp. A few more cabins were above the lake along the creek. And up the (very bad) road was another camp, at Glen Alpine.

Fallen Leaf today (or at least when I was there 3 years ago) still has the same cabins along the shore---it seems like time stood still, due to the moratorium on development in the 70's. Some have been updated, of course, and there are a few new ones. Craven's appears to be no more, replaced by a fancier resort version, and the Stanford camp has a new dining lodge and cabins. The old Glen Alpine camp or whatever it was is either gone or boarded up--I can't remember.

The trails into Desolation Valley, and up Tallac (I hiked to the top yet again in 2004) are unchanged. And the view of Tahoe from the top is just as spectacular.

All in all, Fallen Leaf is pretty much the same as it was 40 years ago. I imagine the residents want to keep it that way. I hope they can.

And another thing that hasn't changed is Fanny Bridge!!!!

Fanny Bridge is completely different now that they have done so much work on the area. Now the view from the road of the fannies hasn't changed much! ;)

Yes, I did mean the view, not the bridge itself.

Yes Chris, I remember the "Tahoe Inn" and I bet it's still there.
Funny, us 3 kids got sick from that place too once. We were staying next door at the Travelodge and I remember at least a couple of us have the Trout almondine. Trout was never the same for me.
Pildredge.

Oh, yes, I do remember the Travel Lodge. A pretty low-rent establishment, if I recall. But then back in those days, the best hotels and motels were in Carnelian Bay or at South Shore. Everything in between was sort of iffy. I'm impressed that you remembered the offending dish!! It's the fish everytime, you know. Or at least when it's not the Salisbury Steak.

Does anyone remember the old time arcade for kids on south shore just north of the Casinos?
We spent hours there @(1970) playing the old time games for very little $ while the parents gambled.

I don't know that arcade because we spent most of our time on the north shore, but I do remember the minature golf course right there in Kings Beach (where we riff raff hung out, LOL!).

Last year we drove by and it is still there and still pretty much the same! We pulled over and much to my partner's chagrin, I twisted his arm into playing a round of mini golf. Talk about nostalia! 40 years later and the place still has the same holes and the same obstacles.

That is one of the things that I love about that part of the lake, it really hasn't changed that much over time. Le Petit Pier was even still there!

Another trip down memory lane happened when we to Sugar Pine Point to see the Ehrman Mansion. We used to spend many hours there at the little beach, but I especially remember fishing for crawfish from the dock. My brothers and I would spend hours every day dropping lines and baskets over in the hopes of catching them buggers. Wouldn't you know it! There at the end of the dock were a group of young kids fishing for crawfish. I had an interesting conversation with them about which is the best bait...bacon or bologna. We finally agreed that bologna was probably the best. What a crack up.

<i>but I do remember the minature golf course right there in Kings Beach (where we riff raff hung out, LOL!). <i>

The best miniature golf course in the world IMHO! (Boberg's is the name, but it was sold a couple of years ago -- honestly, if I knew it were for sale, I might have bought it myself). We used to stay at Brockway every summer and the kids would beg to play multiple times. Loved that place. </i></i>

OK, here's a quiz for someone. The very first time we went to Tahoe was about 1980 to 1985. We went to a restaurant somewhere along the lake in the northwest corner. We were staying at Northstar and drove down to the lake then turned right and didn't go terribly far -- probably no further than where Garwoods is. The restaurant apparently is no longer there -- I've looked for it. It was a big and sort of upscale place and I keep thinking it was called Jake's -- but I could be wrong. We had wonderful steaks. The thing I remember is that the doors you entered were double doors and very, very tall -- like at least 12 feet.
Ring a bell anyone?

Was the restaurant on the right or the left side of Lakefront Blvd.?

Here's the website for Jake's on the Lake. Was this it?

http://www.jakestahoe.com/

It was on the lake side of the street, and I thought quite close to the street because we just happened to see it and stopped. A few years ago we ate at Jake's on the Lake and thought it was a much newer place and they didn't have the big doors that I remember. But I see the website says since 1978 so maybe that IS it. Maybe the doors were too big a problem and they changed the whole entrance. Or maybe I just have Jakes on my mind now because of seeing Jakes on the Lake more recently and that has nothing to do with the name of the place I &quot;sort of&quot; remember.

If the tall doors don't jog any memories, then that must be it.

Jake's is all the way in Tahoe City. After you turn right on N. Lake, there isn't all that much on the lake side --- there's the first group of businesses/motels/restaurants, and then there's just several docks and several housing developments (ex. Chinquapin) before you get to Tahoe City. Was the restaurant immediately after you turned onto N. Lake, or closer to Tahoe City?

http://contentdm.library.unr.edu/cdm...ISOROOT=/tahoe



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