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ALBUM – The Village 1920’s
Before 1915, the Big Bear Village was not much more than a collection of small resort camps. The Big Bear community was centered around the huge Pine Knot Lodge, which was located just south of today’s village. In fact, the local community was known as Pine Knot up until 1938, when the name was officially […]
ALBUM – The Village 1930’s/1940’s
By the 1930’s and 40’s, Big Bear Village which was still known as Pine Knot up until 1938, has completed the transformation from a small cluster of camps into an actual village. Compare the first photo in this Big Bear Village Photo Album to the first photo in the 1920’s Photo Album. Both photos show […]
The Gold Rush – Part 3
VALLEY GOLD COMPANY – 1896 In 1894, about the same time that the Gold Mountain operations at Big Bear Lake were struggling along, another interesting big money venture for extracting gold from the Big Bear area was being carried out by the “Valley Gold Company Ltd.”. This London based company organized both English and American […]
