In Part IX, we touched on the subject of the most famous and, according to most visitors of the time, most beautiful steamer to grace the lake, the steamer “Tahoe,” often referred to as the “S.S. Tahoe” and also the…
Author: Doug Noble
Lake Tahoe – “The Lake of the Sky,” Part IX – The Early Steamers on the Lake
It was Augustus Pray, a lumberman at Glenbrook in the Tahoe Basin, that first realized the need for steam powered boats on the lake. Throughout the 1850s and early 1860s only sailboats had carried the freight, passengers and mail around…
Steppin’ Out – Crystal Basin Bistro (Revisited)
A couple of weeks ago I received a call from an old acquaintance and fellow actor, Mick Bruha. He was back in town from an extended stay in Australia and was now the Hospitality Manager for Crystal Basin Bistro, an…
Steppin’ Out – Pizza Factory, Cameron Park
For a number of weeks I have been seeing comments on Facebook about the new Pizza Factory in Cameron Park (3421 Coach Lane, where Three Brothers restaurant used to be). Most of them were along the line of “When is…