Incline Village, Nevada, USA (Crystal Bay)
1967 - WAS ONCE A GHOST TOWN. Incline Village Flourishing

Incline Village on the north shore of beautiful Lake Tahoe, once a thriving lumber town that faded into a ghost town, today is again mushrooming and flourishing with modern-day living.

FOREFATHERS of some of the residents populated the community over 80 years ago. They settled and built log cabins, grazed their oxen and built a tram railway 4,000 feet long on the side of a mountain 1,400 feet about the blue waters of Lake Tahoe.

Up the tramway went countless timbers and endless cords of firewood ingenuously floated by winding flumes to the mines of the fabled Comstock Lode in Virginia City.

WITH THE mines in Bonanza, Incline grew. The economy of the land and the Hobart Mills meant stripping the land of its magnificent timber. When the mines relocated, Incline, as fast as it grew, became a ghost of the past.

Still the cabins, now collapsed and melting into the land, the oxen shoes, the square cut nails, the artifacts, the tottering remnants of the tramway, the massive bullwheel at the flue high on the mountain, persist. One can still see them

NOW, DECADES later, nature has restored the verdure of the mountain sides of Incline-green, clean and balsam-perfumed, the azure lake is unchanged.

This time the approach seems to be different. This time it would seem we are hear to stay. This city in the making, gracefully planned on nine thousand acres of Incline's slopes, provides the essentials of permanance. Paved streets, water mains and fire hydrants, sweres serving all commercial and multiple housing areas lead to the modern treatment plant.

THESE THINGS plus fine schools, churches, commercial opportunities, and a variety of recreational facilities all show why more than five hundred homes dot Incline's growing community.

Priced from $25,000 to six times as much, these homes invite families in all income brackets. Six hundred apartments, for renting or owing, on a seasonal or year-round basis, range in price from $21,000 to $50,000. One major hotel complex of 200 suites exists at present. Sites for five other deluxe hotels are plotted on properly zoned and sewered acreage.

OUR FOREFATHERS swung an axe or sledge in the original Incline, but today we are more inclined to swing the niblic or the tennis racquet.

Robert Trent Jones designed a championship $3 million 18-hole golf course in the heart of Incline. Lined by stately conifers, traversed by brooks and ponds - the course is described best by poets. The Chataux club house is a favored dining and dancing spot for golfers and non-golfers.

The Racquet Club, six excellent courts, glamourous club house, pool, restaurant and motel units, invites vacationing tennis club members.

ALONG TAHOE'S shores at Incline are two community beaches, each about one-quarter mile in length.

Burnt Cedar Beach, fully developed, with lush green grass picnic tables and Bar-B-Q pits, sandy swimming area, heated Olympic-sized pool, entices those who wish to drowse in the sun or romp in the clear blue water of the lake.

The Ponderosa Ranch Museum and Stables closely knits the past of Incline to the Incline of today. The riding trails meander for miles through the towering mountains of this formidable lake basin. Vistas undescribable - breakfasts on the trail - sunsets unbelievable - steaks sizzling - moonlight hay ride - and all this over Incline Trails that haven't changed in the hundred years since great granddad rode them.

THE MUSEUM at the base of the riding trails is a classic link between the old and new Inclines. Artifacts, devices, tools of the past, vintage cars (still running), sleighs, wagons - they're all here.

Las Vegas Review-Journal
Las Vegas, Nevada
June 4, 1967

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