Here are some pictures I snapped while at the memorial day work weekend up in Oakland beautiful camp. A group had spread out boxes and boxes of historical pictures in order to put together a 90th anniversary time capsule.
Here are some I thought were interesting. Feel free to estimate the dates of these pics. The covered wagon photo might be from the 50s, based on the man’s clothing. I just love the 1970s brochures. And check out the train that used to take campers directly from Jack London Square (or whereever the Oakland train station was, was it there?) to camp, just before Quincy Junction. Could that platform be right at the edge of camp? If so, it no longer remains.
3 comments
DOW says:
Jul 5, 2014
Cities sponsoring summer camps for their residents in the mountains is one of the great things about California. It harkens to a bygone era when people were willing to pony up taxes to provide necessities and even amenities to their neighbors. (Unless they were black.) I’m guessing, top to bottom, 1957, obviously 1970s, 1990, 1948, 1928, 70s again, 1939, 1936, 1946, 2013.
DOW says:
Jul 5, 2014
Oops, missed swimming hole. 1964.
Alexa Weber Morales says:
Jul 5, 2014
The one you guessed as 1990 (the farmhouse and the bus for sale) I took this past Memorial Day weekend, as I did the last one (with usual suspects).