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History jumps out of the textbooks and into the senses at Big Bear Museum, where visitors experience the past even as they learn about it. See how enormous a working fivestamp mill really is. At one time these massive machines were operating up and down Holcomb Valley, pounding ore with a thunderous roar in search for gold, some mills even bigger with up to 40 piston-like stamps at work. When it fires up on weekends the powerful stamp mill in an impressive sight. Hear working blacksmiths pounding hot iron with repeated blows, just like they did in every western town 150 years ago. Smell the smoke as coal burns hot, especially when the blacksmiths fan the flames of the fire, which is where the expression originally came from. Feel muddy water swirl around your hands in a working sluice while panning for “gold” just like miners did during Southern California’s largest gold rush, right here in Big Bear. Naturally the findings are only pyrite aka “Fools Gold” but they sparkle brilliantly nonetheless inside vials sold for just 50 cents. Taste a beverage straight from Wild West saloons, not whiskey but sarsaparilla, just two bucks for each ice cold bottle. Truly visiting Big Bear Museum is a treat for all senses. Now there’s more to see and hear at the museum with last year’s opening of an exhibit dedicated to the late Mel Blanc, “Man of a Thousand Voices.” Blanc was the voice of great Warner Bros. voices like 22 • BIG BEAR SUMMER 2019 . . . BIG BEAR MUSEUM . . . Mining to Mel Blanc, History Makes ‘Sense’ at Museum If you can’t pick us up ... then click us up! Live weather! Photo Gallery! PDF Reader! Big Bear's Best Calendar of Events • Lodging • Attractions Follow Us • Much More! On Facebook! Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, Tweety Bird, Yosemite Sam and many more along with Barney Rubble and even Mr. Spacely from The Jetsons. He built a home in Big Bear and a portion of his life is on display at the museum, from fishing pole and hat to early photos and more. Guests can even hear his Town Blacksmiths at work... ...or with free panning kids love! NEW WEBSITE All Available On-line: www.BigBearTodayMag.com famous “Big Bear Lake” song on demand by pulling the cord. Next to Blanc’s exhibit is one dedicated to the late Robert E. Lee Brown, known to many as the “Leonardo of Leather” and rightly so. His brilliant portraits intricately cut into leather and then handpainted with colors he mixed are breathtaking with a couple on display. Like Blanc, Brown was a master at his craft and he worked with Hollywood’s most famous, dressing cowboys from John Wayne and Hopalong Cassidy to Lash LaRue and Sunset Carson. Feed the senses outdoors where blacksmiths including Jim Lanners, who entertains with storytelling and banjo when he’s not pounding hot iron into free peanut butter pirate knives he gives to any guest who wants one. All around there’s mining equipment, most of it from local operations including Rose and Gold Mountain Mines. The latter was a 40-stamp mill operated by Elias J. “Lucky” Baldwin, who left his name all over Southern California— Baldwin Park is named after him. Baldwin founded Santa Anita racetrack and made a fortune in real estate and even at horse racing, only to lose much of it on his 1875 mining operation in east Big Bear Valley around Gold Mountain. It’s wasn’t so much that they didn’t find gold because they did, in large quantities, but it was mostly low grade stuff that cost more to extract than it was worth. Subsequent owner J.R. DeLaMar rebuilt the mine working the so-called “Mountain of Gold” in 1900, using an advanced cyanide process to separate gold more economically, and at its peak pulled $4,000 a week from Gold Mountain Mine, but it eventually shut down around 1920. Kids get psyched for class by stepping into the authentic schoolhouse and see what it would have been like if they’d been born 150 years ago. The museum’s display is a re-creation of Anna Crain’s one-room schoolhouse in Doble, one of the mining towns that sprung up in Big Bear during the gold rush, where she taught during the early 1900’s. It’s so authentic because it’s based on an old photo and even sports the original bell, unearthed years ago and donated to the museum. Head to Minnie’s, the Camp Juniper cabin moved from its original location on the north shore near Alpine Pedal Path to the museum and restored to represent the kind of general store found in every frontier town at the turn of the century, for that cold sarsaparilla or water. With print shop, dentist office and barbershop, authentic cabins and more, the museum located at Big Bear City Park is really more of a western town. With teepee and Native American kiic representative of lodging used by local tribes. The museum is at 800-B Greenway Dr. in Big Bear City and open Wednesdays, Saturdays, Sundays and holiday Mondays from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. through second weekend in September. Admission is just $5, 14 and under free. Call (909) 585-8100. ■ Your Best Source for activities and happenings in the Big Bear Lake Area Monthly! Summer! Fall! Lake Activities Boating • Fishing • Hiking Biking & Special Events All Things Oktoberfest! 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