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ROADS AND TRAFFIC
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Registered Member #191 Joined: Tue Dec 05 2006, 06:43AM : Posts: 3316
The Valley has a lot of place with local nicknames some old some some newer some have meaning I thought it might be fun guessing why they have them or maybe you know why.
Taj Mahal Upset locals about cityhood over built opulent city office
China Garden My Guess Area of soft mud car and wagons sunk to the axle’s in the springtime and sink to China
Godwins corner Guess Lots of car crashes I remember lots of cars out in the field plus DR. Godwin lived in the house at the corner
Dead Mans Corner No Idea I know it was a place with a fire department alarm.
Fawnskin Freeway The newer wide Stretch of new highway Good Luck to Maronies on North Shore (38) and replaced going by LightHouse campground
Honda Acres-Bear City This one from the 60s/ any ideas why, its not like any Hondas were around
200 acres
80 acres
Warty Rocks up on skyline This one is easy the boulders look to have warts
Stonehenge-Bluff Mesa
Eye of the Gods blow up Indians
Skunk Hallow west of Redant Hill
Moonridge I think its the developments name
Sugarloaf
Fawnskin My Guess-Pelts from hunters from Deer Hunting
Registered Member #4 Joined: Sat Aug 19 2006, 06:01PM : Posts: 13166
Skyline Drive wrote ...
Fawnskin Freeway The newer wide Stretch of new highway Good Luck to Maronies on North Shore (38) and replaced going by LightHouse campground
That's funny - I've never heard it called that but sometimes on my way to work I find myself accidentally going freeway speeds through here and then my mind wanders off into the future and I imagine this area as a 4 lane divided highway.
Registered Member #228 Joined: Sun Dec 17 2006, 07:41AM : Posts: 3525
If memory serves me correctly, Tom Core had a story in The Grizzly many years ago describing the fact that some early settlers came upon a skin of a fawn and named the area Fawnskin.
Registered Member #116004 Joined: Tue Jan 28 2020, 06:22PM : Posts: 10
Some information on "Dead Man's Corner." I lived in Big Bear from 1970 to 1975, and as a BBHS student with a '72 Mustang Mach I, I was a member of the informal car club running amuck around the valley.
Dead Man's "Curve" - in my time - was on Hwy 18 as it makes the last right-hand curve (Eastbound) before the Stanfield Cutoff intersection. Today, the curve is a gentle, well-engineered curve that probably causes no one any concern. Not so in the '70s...
As you may guess, the highway was a 2-lane then, and the right-hand turn was almost a 90 degree elbow...
Here's the "dead man" part: the roadway was graded the opposite way it should have been, and just off the roadway in the middle of the turn was a gigantic Bonanza Pine. I personally witnessed several crashes into that tree, and heard many a story about it from my car enthusiast' friends and their fathers.
Hope that is a small slice of interesting info...GREAT THREAD!
Registered Member #116004 Joined: Tue Jan 28 2020, 06:22PM : Posts: 10
I think Sugarloaf is simply named for Sugarloaf Mountain, almost directly south of the neighborhood we call Sugarloaf. I remember delivering lumber and building supplies to jobs in Sugarloaf for Homestead Lumber Co., in the early '70s.
Registered Member #116004 Joined: Tue Jan 28 2020, 06:22PM : Posts: 10
Cornbread wrote ...
I always thought dead mans curve was on the blvd just west of circle K
Yeah, Cornbread, that curve has also been straightened out (so to speak) such that it looks nothing like its former, dangerous self. You may be right about it holding the appellation as well, but though I cannot quite remember it, that Bear City curve had a slightly different name, and there was no speed involved on that stretch.
The other killer was Eastbound HWY 18 at what is now Big Bear Snow Play. Looks innocent enough, but that long straightaway was our dragstrip in those days...there is a pile of boulders just off the curve that caught some unlucky speeders, one of whom was an acquaintance of mine (we called him "Bozo") who died there in 1973.
Registered Member #191 Joined: Tue Dec 05 2006, 06:43AM : Posts: 3316
Warren Strand wrote ...
Some information on "Dead Man's Corner." I lived in Big Bear from 1970 to 1975, and as a BBHS student with a '72 Mustang Mach I, I was a member of the informal car club running amuck around the valley.
Dead Man's "Curve" - in my time - was on Hwy 18 as it makes the last right-hand curve (Eastbound) before the Stanfield Cutoff intersection. Today, the curve is a gentle, well-engineered curve that probably causes no one any concern. Not so in the '70s...
As you may guess, the highway was a 2-lane then, and the right-hand turn was almost a 90 degree elbow...
That’s Godwin’s corner going eastbound before Stanfield. Dr. Goldwin lived in the house on the East Side of the curve
Godwins corner turned right up hill then another right with a flat spot on top then another right with the road going down hill, at speed the car would unweight on rhe flat spot on top then the right turn and the down slope caused the car to slide. Many cars would crash out in the pasture going west about where Vons is. Dead Mans is in Bear City west of circle K at Dawn
Here's the "dead man" part: the roadway was graded the opposite way it should have been, and just off the roadway in the middle of the turn was a gigantic Bonanza Pine. I personally witnessed several crashes into that tree, and heard many a story about it from my car enthusiast' friends and their fathers.
Hope that is a small slice of interesting info...GREAT THREAD!
[CHP DISPATCH] RUNNING SPRINGS - TRAFFIC ADVISORY HIGHWAY 330 / LIVE OAK DR 1:44PM [1] 101-21 VIA MDC - CAN YOU START A TRAFFIC ADVISORY LOG FROM 1300-1700 ON HIGHWAY 330 DUE TO ALTERNATING LANES OF TRAFFIC DUE TO ROADWAY CONSTRUCTION. EXTENDED WAIT TIMES DUE TO WORK ALONG THE CENTERLINE. UPDATES: [Click Here]
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Portable they would have the fireworks show if the entire place was falling down. We are getting drift smoke but it is not that bad as of last night. Blue sky's this morning.
[UPDATE] VEGETATION FIRE in DEVORE HEIGHTS Per USFS Cable Fire Holding At 15 Acres. Hose Lay Around The Whole Fire. 30% Contained. Continue To Construct Line. DETAILS: [Click Here]
From the San Bernardino National Forest: RT @CALFIREBDU: #LakeFire 6.29.25 Evening Update: [Click Here] @SBCOUNTYFIRE @sbcountysheriff @SanBernardinoNF @SBCounty @Silver… As of June 29, 2025 at 07:10PM
From the San Bernardino National Forest: RT @sbcountysheriff: On June 29, 2025, at 6PM, The evacuation order for the area south of Highway 138 between the 15 Freeway and Highway ha… As of June 29, 2025 at 06:37PM
[UPDATE] VEHICLE FIRE in CRESTLINE Fully Involved Vehicle Fire With Trailer. Fire Is Contained To The Vehicle. No Vegetation Involved. CANCEL The Aircraft. DETAILS: [Click Here]
[CHP DISPATCH] CRESTLINE - VEHICLE FIRE HIGHWAY 18 / LAKE GREGORY DR 6:19PM [5] REPORTING PARTY ADVISE ON RIGHT HAND SHOULDER // CLOSE TO BRUSH [SHARED] 6:19PM [2] ALL PARTYS OUT OF VEHICLE UPDATES: [Click Here]
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Nick names of place around the valley
