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Anyone who has spent several years at Lake Tahoe knows that the lake fluctuates – this is one of the dry years for certain. Below is a photograph of the lagoon at Thunderbird Lodge I took this weekend. You can see how low we are right now – and why the lake is too low for the yacht to leave the boathouse.
For comparison, here are some slides from mid 1960s when the Crane family visited Thunderbird Lodge. You can really see a stark difference! There is no beach to be seen.
TLPS Collections.
Warren Crane served as Whittell’s personal engineer for several years and was Whittell’s longest serving employee.
TLPS Collections.
Warren and his family often visited Thunderbird Lodge and would stay in the Caretaker’s Cabin on the property.
The slides were donated by Joey and Myrna Pesce in 2012. Myrna is Warren’s daughter and seen in several of the slides of the family’s time at Tahoe.
We here at TLPS are very grateful for their generous donation!
Thunderbird Lodge and Yacht - Lake Tahoe 
Is there any chance you could share a larger version of these pictures, please? This is the time period when I was at Whittell’s and I think that is our pedal boat in the bottom photo. Thanks!
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Gary,
Send me your email and I will send it to you – we like to not post the larger ones online jesse@thunderbirdtahoe.org 🙂 Jesse
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