by Rick Keppler | Apr 3, 2019 | Big Bear Lake history, Historical Videos, History, history videos, Pan Hot Springs Inn, Rick Keppler, Vanishing Big Bear-2
This short video tells about Big Bear City’s first resort, the Pan Hot Springs Inn. The Historical images were provided by the recently published “Vanishing Big Bear-2” and the Rick Keppler historical collection. This hardbound 8.5” x 11” book is available at Big Bear...
by Rick Keppler | Mar 25, 2019 | Historical Videos, History
A short story of the old bridge that was built across the dam at Big Bear Lake, California, in 1924, and the new overpass which replaced it in 2011. The Historical images were contributed by the recently published “Vanishing Big Bear-2”
by Kathy Hoffman | Mar 22, 2019 | History, Places of Interest
The Big Bear Historical Museum first opened to the public in 1982. It is located in Big Bear City just off of Greenway. The Big Bear Museum is the most visible result of the hard working volunteer members of the Big Bear Valley Historical Society, who have been...
by Kathy Hoffman | Mar 22, 2019 | History, Mountain Roads
In the early 1880’s, Big Bear Village, Fawnskin, and Big Bear City didn’t exist. The only community in Big Bear Valley was a little mining town at the north/east end of Baldwin Lake called Baird’s town, and the only two roads into the valley were actually...
by Kathy Hoffman | Mar 22, 2019 | Big Bear Communities and Towns, History
As a result, Fawnskin’s rapid development slowed to a crawl, and all of the early resorts that once dotted the north shore of the lake, except for one, eventually disappeared into history. Meanwhile, new development along the south side of the lake escalated, and has...
by Kathy Hoffman | Mar 22, 2019 | History, The Lake and Dams
BIG BEAR’S NATURAL LAKE Big Bear lake is a man made lake. All of the published history to date, including this author’s book Vanishing Big Bear, tells us that Big Bear Lake was originally created when a Redlands farmer by the name of Frank Brown built a...
