San Fernando Cascades

Author: Paulie
Date: 2024-07-30
Tags: Aqueduct, Cascades, History, Los Angeles, Photo, San Fernando, Water
Categories: Photos

The San Fernando Cascades, where water from the Los Angeles Aqueduct enters the Valley. The small one on the left is where Mulholland famously told a crowd of 30,000 people at its opening in 1913, There it is, take it. The larger Cascade on the right was completed in 1970 and feeds the Foothill power…

Hawaiian Sunset

Author: Paulie
Date: 2024-07-22
Tags: Hawaii, Photo, Sunset
Categories: Photos

It turns out there’s nice sunsets in Hawai’i. Next time, I really need to bring one of my real cameras and not just the phone.

California SR 127 – A Tour Through Mojave History

Author: Paulie
Date: 2024-07-16
Tags: Amargosa Valley, Borax, California, Death Valley, Desert, History, Mojave, Photo, Railroads
Categories: Tales of Long Ago

Of the nearly 400,000 miles of road in California, the lightly traveled State Route 127 between Baker and the Nevada State Line is mostly an afterthought, yet it holds within its modest 90 miles of length the entire history of California’s Mojave Desert. It’s a story of rapacious plunder, Robber Barons, and those who followed in their wake after the mines played out.