Imagine a Bridge Over the Mouth of Emerald Bay…
The League to Save Lake Tahoe was formed in 1957 to prevent major development in the Basin, and the organization continues the fight today.
Wally Gellatt Makes Truckee a Destination
Wally Gellett, who once owned Camp Donner, helped make Truckee a summer and winter destination.
Fifty Years Later, Tahoe Still Feels Effects of Squaw Valley...
The 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley brought new infrastructure to the area and was the start of a year-round tourism economy for Tahoe.
Remembering Truckee’s Masonic Lodge
Truckee's Masonic Lodge was destroyed in a 1993 propane blast. But the building has a long history.
Tahoe Vista Historic Building Served Food and Letters to Patrons
A look at the 86-year history of the building that houses Spindleshanks in Tahoe Vista.
The Squaw Valley Mining Bust
The Squaw Valley gold mining boom that never got off the ground
T.C. Wohlbruck: Prolific Photographer, Donner Museum Proprietor
During the early 1920s, if you drove past Donner Lake’s east end, chances are you stopped at T.C. Wohlbruck’s canteen service station for a...
Jibboom Street’s Seedy Past
Marianne Porter’s interview with Dean Schaecher and Christa Finn from The Pour House (see article here) is a reminder of just how far one...
The Rise and Reinvention of the TRPA
The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency is often viewed as an unchanging, bureaucratic regulatory agency. But as the organization most recently demonstrated in a historic...
The Rocking Stone and the Crystal Palace
Perhaps no piece of Truckee history spans such a wide range of the past as Truckee’s Rocking Stone — a curiously balanced boulder left...