Then and now: Easter egg hunt in 1948

South Lake Tahoe's Easter egg hunt in 1948. Photo/Lake Tahoe Historical Society

South Lake Tahoe’s Easter egg hunt in 1948. Photo/Lake Tahoe Historical Society

Longtime local resident Dave Wakeman remembers attending this 1948 Easter Egg Hunt at age 6. The Bijou Park Club on Highway 50 sponsored the annual egg hunts and other community events when the local population numbered only in the hundreds.

The building fell victim to the rampant construction of motels and attractions preceding the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley.

Wakeman also recalls several small vacation cottages along a stream between the Bijou Park Club and Tahoe Meadows. Evidence of that stream bed is still visible behind the tree at far right. Photo/Bill Kingman

Dave Wakeman recalls several small vacation cottages along a stream between the Bijou Park Club and Tahoe Meadows. Evidence of that stream bed is still visible behind the tree at far right. Photo/Bill Kingman

The Bijou Park Club stood approximately where McDonald’s is today.

— Bill Kingman