[Robert M. Hume, Sr.--home movies] Reel 24

Date1946

Can DescriptionsCan notes: 'California Trip Pt. 1. 1946.' Typed shot list for 'California Trip Reel 1': 'United Airlines Mainliner at Boston 9/19/46. Sunrise over Nevada. Sierra Nevada Mts. Flying 14000 ft. Train from airplane at Winnemucca Nev. Airplane wing (Sierras in distance). Old Pony Express marker at Pacific, Calif. New Pony Express marker at Pacific, Calif. Post office Pacific, Calif. Trees on mountainside. Sugar Loaf Mt. 6500 ft. Lovers leap--Strawberry Village 6985 ft. View from Slippery Toad road. Horse Tail Falls in distance. Echo Lake. Echo Lake Grand Station. Echo Lake summit. Lake Tahoe from Echo Lake summit. South up valley of Upper Truckee River. North down Upper Truckee River Valley (Lake Tahoe in distance). Lake Tahoe at sunrise (California shore). Zephyr Cove, Lake Tahoe, Nev., shore. South thru Tunnel Rock. Tunnel Rock. Phipps Peak 9000 ft. Emerald Cove from Eagle Creek. From Inspiration Point. Emerald Bay looking toward Nevada from Inspiration Point. Donner Lake (Sierra Nevadas in distance). South side Donner Pass showing Snow Sheds on R.R. and Donner Peak (1896 31 out of 81 in party died here. Some stayed buried 4 days). Redwoods. Alcatraz Prison (In San Francisco Bay is a patrol boat 3/4 mile off shore. Current swift.) Army embarkation pier San Francisco. Hall of Fame Bldg. (Part of 1915 San Francisco Fair buildings, now public park). Panorama of San Francisco, city peninsula with land connection to south. South SF on right. Market Street with Bay Bridge piers and bay in distance. Fog coming in thru Golden Gate. Mission Dolores (built 1776, called Dolores because found Indian ladies washing clothes there and one was crying). Flowers in Mission (burying ground). Golden Gate Bridge from West Lake Park. The Golden Gate. End of Reel 1.' NHF cataloguer's notes: Sunset, United Airlines plane, mountains, 'Pony Express Trail,' pan of area of trail, Echo Lake, driving through tunnel in rock ledges, woman standing in front of tree (15 ft. diameter), pan up through trees, pan of city, suspended bridge, 'Wellington & Jackson Railway.'