slgwv's photos with the keyword: 1930s

Old San Rafael Bridge, Utah, built by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in the 1930s.

Side view, showing how it's actually a suspension bridge. Apparently it swayed considerably when it was open to automobile traffic! As detailed in the adjacent photo, it was built by the CCC in the 1930s. Photo from the new automobile bridge.

Over the San Rafael River in central Utah, USA. Built by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in the 1930s as part of Roosevelt's New Deal. It's been replaced by a new bridge for vehicle traffic, but is still open for non-motorized travel.

The plaque on the San Rafael Bridge, Utah.

A close-up of another section of the retaining walls. Again, this was an extraordinary amount of effort to put into what was then an extremely remote area. Toiyabe Range, Nevada, USA. Map location is approximate.

This quixotic CCC project from the mid-30s. The area was _really_ remote then, and even now I'm told much of the trail is now faint from lack of use. In the upper drainage of San Juan Creek. Map location is approximate. Toiyabe Range, central Nevada. "toy-YAH-bee," btw.

Looking west. The upper photo is from the L.F. Manis collection (#100-1112) at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and was taken ca. 1935; I took the lower photo on 13 June 2011. The exact original photo position is unrecoverable because of all the road construction and housing development. (I'm standing on a built-up terrace for a development behind me.) Again, the amount of development in the last 75 years is astonishing.

The upper photo is from the Gus Bundy collection (#08-167) at the University of Nevada, Reno and was probably taken in the mid-1930s. The lower photo is by me, 14 July 2011. Looking upstream (north), about a quarter of a mile below the old Jumbo townsite, which is right around the corner. Not too many changes here! Even the road, which elsewhere is now very washed out, doesn't look very different. It does appear that I've captured the same three juniper trees (outlined) as Bundy did, straight ahead across the drainage. They've gotten lots bigger in the last 75-odd years!

Looking southwest. The top photo is from the L.F. Manis collection (#100-1113) at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and was taken ca. 1935. I took the lower photo on 13 June 2011. There's been just a bit of development! I think the exact original photography stance is now under the modern highway. Note, however, that not only is the big water tank on the skyline still there, but also the building skylined on the knoll to the right (outlined). I think it was one of the government's original offices for the Boulder Canyon Project (Hoover Dam).

About a half mile downstream from the main town site, just above the old mill foundation: www.flickr.com/photos/34117538@N08/5552654863/in/set-7215... Upper photo is courtesy Nevada Historical Society, and is probably by Gus Bundy, ca. mid 1930s; lower photo is by me, 14 July 2011. The photos are looking roughly east up a side canyon off Jumbo Grade. Not much left of the old buildings! In striking contrast to the view above Jumbo itself, there were also more piñon/juniper trees in the 1930s than now, especially on the slope to the left. This evidently is the result of a fire a few decades back; there are lots of snags on that slope, and some are even skylined in the modern photo (view at large scale). It's also possible that that fire finished off what was left of the buildings. There is a modern cultural feature: a tall communications tower right on the range crest to the right of the bluff peeking out in the middle of the canyon (outlined; view large). It was built only a couple of years ago. The photo stance was hard to recover; it's now down in the steep gully formed by the 1997 flood. Apparently there had been some surface build-up due to sedimentation since the 1930s that was subsequently channeled by the flood. I'm sure Bundy took his photo from what then was the ground surface.

Looking northeast. The upper photo is from the L. F. Manis collection (#100-3348) at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and was taken in the early 1930s. The lower photo is by me, 13 June 2011. The highway isn't all that different, but there are now lots of high-voltage transmission towers of various vintages. I think the steel frame tower on the left dates from the dam's construction, while the pylons on the right are considerably newer. The edge of the new Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge is visible at the extreme right in the modern photo (outlined).

Jumbo, Nevada, ca. 1936 and 2011. Top photo courtesy of Nevada Historical Society (uncredited postcard); bottom photo by me, 14 Jul 2011. In fact, the actual original photo stance is somewhere under those juniper trees in the foreground. This was a hard photo to recover, and not just because of all the vegetation that's grown up. It turns out the road in the foreground of the original pic no longer exists, too. It's been realigned to run up along the wash at right, presumably because of washouts over the years. I ended up matching the stance by lining up the rocky outcrop on the left of the hill in the middle distance (outlined) against the Carson Range (the skyline), and also by comparing the location of the distinctive whitish rhyolite roadcut in the middle of the picture. I've put a photo from a different position, from about 100 yards southeast, in the comments that gives a much better flavor of the changes. None of the buildings or surface mine workings exist now, and the piñon/juniper forest has made a huge comeback. I imagine the trees had all been logged off in the 1860s to fire the boilers in Virginia City, about 5 miles behind me over the Virginia Range. The wildfire scar on the left in the modern photo dates to a few years ago. It was lightning-caused, IIRC. I've also highlighted the headframe of the Pandora shaft. This shaft was filled in several years back by the BLM, as part of their mine-safety program.