Month: January 2015
Steppin’ Out – Danette’s Brick Oven Pub
I’ve known Danette Inman for a number of years and would always see her when I ate at the Diamond Springs Hotel, where she was an outstanding server. I also see her when she drives by me on the road…
Lake Tahoe – “The Lake of the Sky,” Part X – The Saga of the “S. S. Tahoe”
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…
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…