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Old Miner’s Days has been a long tradition in Big Bear Lake. We went into our collection of Big Bear Lake ephemera and found these advertisements that were placed in the newspaper. Many of them are hilarious. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did.
 

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Pioneer Town to Big Bear Lake

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The call of the wild!  What pictures the phrase brings to the mind at this season, the spring of the year when the blood is pulsating with renewed life and when the spirit of man hungers for the outdoors.
Visions of pine-encircled lakes, flower sheets on deeded subdivision land, making a total of of hamlet—and tree-gemmed [...]

Built by Guy Maltby, Big Bear City

About Peter Pan Woodland Club
Three hundred years ago the site of Big Bear City was a wilderness, a pristine valley of forest and sward, where Juniper and Pines of ancient age have battled victoriously with snowy storms and felt the ecstacy of calms –an earthly paradise, adorned with dashing [...]

This is a copy of the rules and regulations of the Peter Pan Woodland Club from 1931. The Club was a world class resort built by Guy Maltby. Located in Big Bear City, remnants of the original stone fence can be seen around the Verizon Station between Rainbow and Sherwood Rd.
 Peter Pan Woodland Club, Ltd. 
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The old post office and general store are going to move to the Big Bear Museum! A small cabin,  located across from Juniper Point (Google Map), has been donated by Dr. Baumgartner. Volunteers are needed to assist with the move. You can contact Gloria Meade at 585-6541 or Jerry Hanna at 585-7643.

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We just loaded more than 40 historic images of Big Bear to Facebook.
Here’s the link:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2009537&id=1159121012&l=77bbe

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One of the most exciting and colorful traditions of the Old West is carried on right in Big Bear Valley when the Vaqueros de las Montanas stage their annual rodeo in Meadow Park, Big Bear Lake.
            Since 1922 when the first rodeo was held here, this event has grown in magnitude and importance annually until [...]

Access by Air -1959
Big Bear City airport, owned by Ted M. Page of Monrovia, is situated at the east end of Big Bear Lake and is rapidly becoming popular among the private plane enthusiasts.
The field elevation is 6,850 ft. The 3,700 ft. paved runway is clearly visible from the air.  Traffic pattern is to the [...]

Known officially as Federal Highway 68, the new 26-ft. two lane highway which will join the upper Santa Ana river Canyon to the east end of Big Bear Valley is programming rapidly, with completion scheduled for some time around Christmas of this year.           
Carefully engineered so that the maximum grade is six percent and the [...]