The National Park Service is reporting that the first phase of the Ansel Adams rehabilitation project has finished, and that the Ansel Adams Gallery has reopened! It’s a great place to visit.
From the Press Release:
The Ansel Adams Gallery Rehabilitation Recently Completed at Yosemite National Park
Jim Steinberg has posted over at the San Bernardino Sun about the much anticipated re-opening of Santa’s Village. Some of you young folks may not know what Santa’s Village is, as it closed back in 1998. from Wikipedia:
Santa’s Village was a winter-themed amusement park in the Skyforest section of Lake Arrowhead, California. Opened in 1955, it was the first franchised amusement park, one of three built by developer Glenn Holland. The others, also defunct, were in Scotts Valley, California and East Dundee, Illinois.
Opening more than a month before Disneyland, the 220-acre park was one of Southern California’s biggest tourist attractions. It boasted kiddie rides, including a bobsled, monorail, and Ferris wheel; a petting zoo; live reindeer; and shops that included a bakery, candy kitchen, and toy shop. Continue reading
A GORGEOUS time-lapse of our beautiful state like you’ve probably never seen it. It took four years to put this together; “The average clip took 1-3 hours to film and another 3-10 hours to edit. Several cuts are from clips more than 24 hours long. I shot 423 clips over four years to make this, but the majority of the 67 clips ultimately used were shot in the last 12 months.” – Hal Bergman
Take four minutes and watch this awesome video!
One of my most cherished childhood memories was when my Dad piled us all into the ol’ 1970 Oldsmobile Delta 88 and we took off before sunrise from Dana Point, heading up to the San Bernardino Mountains. This is back in the day when freeways were six lanes, Crown Valley Parkway was four lanes, and seat belts were those things stuck under the seat cushions.
I’d sit up front on the folded down armrest so I could see out the windshield and we’d drive for what seemed like hours until we finally reached the base of the mountain.
Up the road we went, clawing ever higher around the curves, Dad turning the steering wheel, me sliding between his shoulder and my Mom’s. Up, up, and up into the clouds we drove until we finally emerged through a break in those rolling mists to see the bright Technicolor red rooftops of Santa’s Village.
The most beautiful and the most photographed bridge in the world, the Golden Gate Bridge which links the city of San Francisco to Marin County in California opened on this day way back in 1937. The festivities lasted for a full week before Mayor Angelo Rossi along with other officials crossed the bridge in a motorcade past three ceremonial barriers (the last being a blockade of beauty queens).
The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate strait, which is a three mile long, one mile wide channel between San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean.
