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Tahoe/Truckee’s history

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A Fine Line

Juliana Demarest - 0
The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency has had to strike a fine balance between conservationists and private landowners throughout its five decades working to preserve the integrity of the Lake Tahoe Basin.
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Happy Sesquicentennial!

Moonshine Ink Staff - 0

It’s easy take the transcontinental railroad for granted as it doesn’t overtly affect our daily lives, but in truth, the transcontinental railroad is responsible for shaping the North Tahoe/Truckee/Donner Summit area you see today.

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The Rocking Stone and the Crystal Palace

David Bunker - 0
Perhaps no piece of Truckee history spans such a wide range of the past as Truckee’s Rocking Stone — a curiously balanced boulder left...
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Chicken Business

Chelsea Walterscheid - 0

Truckee was once home to a large chicken ranch

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The Squaw Valley Stables

Moonshine Ink Staff - 0

Looking back to a more peaceful time.

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50 Years as a Tahoe Ski Bum

Abby Stevens - 0

Ever wonder what has changed over the last 50 years in Tahoe? Dick Tash has seen it all … or at least a lot of it.

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A Tale of the River Streets

Alex Hoeft - 0
Eugene Gini, 89, has lived in Truckee all his life. Owner of the riverside Moonshine office, he shares stories from over the decades including unplowed roads and segregated neighborhoods.
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The Timeless Headliners of the Kings Beach Bowl

Ally Gravina - 1

In the summers of 1967-1968 Lake Tahoe benefited from San Francisco’s blossoming psychedelic music scene as name acts like the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, and Buffalo Springfield played at a converted bowling alley we now know as the North Tahoe Event Center.
 

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Lake Tahoe’s Building Boom in the Roaring Twenties

Molly Wilcox - 0
Lake Tahoe was targeted for a national park in the 1910s, but with the wealth of the Roaring Twenties, rampant development moved in and gave rise to three private estates that now function as attractions in of themselves.
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Ursus Horribilis

Pat Dillon - 0

The California grizzly, once known as Ursus Horrilibus or terrible bear, numbered around 10,000 in population before the 19th century Gold Rush.

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