Found some old pics of my home town

FrancF

Boulder Creek Calif. A small Logging town. population then 100, Now 3,500

Main street circa 1890-1915


Now-


The other end of town- about where "Now" pic is looking towards the first pic.)Circa 1915


A redwood logging ox-team. Redwood trees cut were skidded down over bridges by ox teams


How would you like to cut this tree down with a 2 man saw.


Boulder Creek - East to west with railroad yards in the foreground. Railroads were an important business in making sure redwood lumber made it to the markets. Today you would never know they were there,
only along the creek can you find remnants of the old RR bridges


SP train station in town.


Sarmento's Saloon in Boulder Creek. Refreshments and entertainment was available to most people.

James Ayers

[8D]Yo FrancF, I've fished Most of the Sierras and Lived in Paradice, where do you come from and know - I've hunted deer in Butte and Mendocino cty- A thought-I've caught Rainbow, Brown and very rarely a GOLDEN trout.I've also hunted MEN in Butte, but another story[:D][:D][:D][:D]

On your mark-get set- go away!!

TRAP55

quote:How would you like to cut this tree down with a 2 man saw
In Boulder Creek with all the tree huggers living there!?[:0] Only if they're chained to it![:D]

"Aim small...Miss small"

Iowa

I very much like taking a trip back in time- Thank you

FrancF

quote:where do you come from and know
Was Born in St. Louis, But lived in Santa Cruz, Co. most of my life.
I grew up in boulder Creek, where my folks still live. I used to know just about every goat path there is in the hills. Hunting and fishing was great then. But now its mostly tree huggers that own the good places for hunting. To many pot growers up there with boobie traps
to even attempt hunting or fishing any more.

kenneth and melissa

I enjoyed looking at the pictures . Thanks for sharing them [:D]

Thomas Jefferson, of Virginia:
"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms. . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."

FrancF

quote:Originally posted by TRAP55
quote:How would you like to cut this tree down with a 2 man saw
In Boulder Creek with all the tree huggers living there!?[:0] Only if they're chained to it![:D]

"Aim small...Miss small"


Aint that the f-in truth!!! [:D]

Hangfire

Great pics Francf. I live in SoKal in an 1893 Victorian built entirely out of Redwood logged from the local mountains.I remember photos of my uncle and his mule pulled wagon hauling timbers from the forest in 1911.[Btw.. I have his 30/40 Krag issued to him in WW1-they used to be able to bring them home[8D]..]

Love them Pre-64's!!!!-Bob

plains scout

Thanks for posting. Very cool


"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
~Abraham Lincoln

roger2fan

Thanks for the great pics of a time long forgotten, Maybe it's time to remember??

Roger2fan

James Ayers

[8D]Yo FrancF, In Paradice,It was 45 minutes to Sterling city (3500 ft) I had a cabin there ,then it was 2hrs to 90000ft the top of the Sierras,Trout , Deer, Elk, Elephant, Eland-oops wrong threat- But you can imagine what a wonderful world it was---- and Weatherby country![:p][:p][:p][:D]

On your mark-get set- go away!!