Some mountain scenes on our way to Running springs for pizza and pool. It was so beautiful the other day. Everything was fresh and green and smelled just like mountains should smell.
Santa's Village my photo below, is in the process of being rehab'd. In 1955 it opened up in Sky Forest (which is just a few miles up the highway). It was a winter themed amusement park and opened just a month before Disneyland opened. The builders opened two more Santa's Village - one in Illinois and another in California in a different area. It had kiddie rides, monorail, bobsled rides, Ferris wheel, petting zoo live reindeer and several shops. Because of decreasing revenue it closed down in March of 1998. So that makes it 16 years ago that it has sat there not being used.
It was sold thee years later and severed as a staging area for local logging operations (all info came from wikipedia)... It was purchased in June 2014 and is going to open as Sky Park and scheduled to open this year. I
Here is a photo which I guess is from the 50's. We really didn't live that far away when my kids were young - now I wonder why we never took them there. They went to Disneyland every year because my husband''s employer rented out the park once a year for employees and their families.
When we got to the pizza place these two dogs were in the back of a truck and I couldn't resist getting their photo - what isn't shown in this photo is the dog in back is missing his eye. I'm always amazed that some dogs can be trusted to sit in the back of a truck and not run off. I didn't see anybody in the truck.
Here is my grandson Hunter playing pool.
I was surprised to find he is pretty good at it - i had no idea he had ever played before. Maybe he is sneaking out at night and going down to town to practice;)
Just a few different looking buildings in the town of Running Springs.
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I like that red house and the property around it! And where do you eat in Running Springs? Is that also where you played pool? Didn't Sam have a pool table in Ventura in a garage or something? The mountain scenes you took from the car are so gorgeous! I loved all the photos in this post. How did you do playing pool? After all, we seemed to always have a pool table growing up.
I love the mountain scene photos you took. I almost feel like I can smell the air there from here.
You're right laura - i forgot about the pool table he had in the garage - i saw it when it was covered with stuff, being used to store things. i didn't play pool = just hunt and his dad. The pizza place is Neo's. It's been there way before we owned that cabin up in Green Valley lake that we sold. The food has gotten really really good (as well as the beer). Thanks Connie - it's been so beautiful lately.
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