tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1172620894432077557.post2895621401588729917..comments2024-03-28T23:10:34.828-07:00Comments on gold country girls: The Past is Present in Placerville No. 7: Those old High School StepsHeidi Annhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08666588441951832108noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1172620894432077557.post-30404935136187165132012-04-28T17:46:51.781-07:002012-04-28T17:46:51.781-07:00fantastic pictures jim. what a nice addition tina...fantastic pictures jim. what a nice addition tina, to your post. he did a 'bang up' job and am really glad that someone else found your historical posts, which i love, and that it sent him a quest. so glad, jim, that you guest blogged today. thanks for your time, effort, and of course info/photos!yosemite faithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01099881025316197608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1172620894432077557.post-86146928889004034062012-04-26T06:57:44.470-07:002012-04-26T06:57:44.470-07:00Well I have never been to placerville but I find a...Well I have never been to placerville but I find all this fascinating. Thanks for the trip!Jennifer Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15194865772198170276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1172620894432077557.post-9134886152036373112012-04-25T16:22:00.123-07:002012-04-25T16:22:00.123-07:00I love old photos and trying to find just where th...I love old photos and trying to find just where they were taken. Time makes things appear so different than from memory. What I thought was a huge area has shrunken to a small yard. Buildings that were skyscrapers now appear only a couple of stories high. And the landscaping changes things too. Thanks for a trip down memory lane, (even though I didn't trapse down there before today)Helenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13413508926577689054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1172620894432077557.post-69256406540262698302012-04-25T15:38:20.378-07:002012-04-25T15:38:20.378-07:00Tina, to include more info to further fascinate GC...Tina, to include more info to further fascinate GC Girls’ fans, the bright strip, bottom left in the old pic, would be 1915 Clay Street, a narrow dirt road. Lower Alder, a narrow dirt road just below my house looks exactly like the bright strip in the pic. Yesterday, sitting on a railing of the beautiful old bridge (soon to be demolished) where Clay crosses P’ville Creek, I & youngsters smoking funny cigarettes determined the width of the bridge to be an indicator of the width of olden-day Clay—two autos barely squeak a pass on the bridge.<br /><br />Sighting up the street we saw how Clay could easily have been realigned, forming the angles that puzzled me. It’s also apparent that the construction of Hwy 50 shifted, if not gutted, P’ville considerably. (Such ruin is rare nowadays. Note how new speedways up & down Hwy 49 now bypass historic towns.)<br /><br />A cloud of funny cigarette smoke wafted near, I took a few deep breaths, then floated on up the hill to home in Camino. J;O)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com