Keeler, California - The Olds Family #3



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All photographs on this page courtesy of Garey Ford unless otherwise noted.




Garey Ford writes:

My wife's father, Rodney Allen Olds, was born in Keeler in the mid-twenties. His father, Loren Olds, lived and worked for the National Soda Products Co. (NSP). I'm attaching the family photos of the Olds family while they lived in the NSP Co.Village in 1925. Also, included in the pictures is the Keeler (Mapes) Hotel fire in 1925 and the Owens River Gorge Plant. Hope you get these so others may enjoy them too. Garey Ford (Wife, Teresa M. Olds).
PS: also included are pictures of the David Olds family ranch in Bishop 1885.

April 2012



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NSP Melvina Olds and Irma Badgley
Keeler, CA - 1925


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Rod and Dad Olds
Keeler, CA -1927


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Olds farm house, Bishop, CA.

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Rod Olds and Vera Rife
Keeler, CA -1926


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Rod Olds and Vera Rife
Keeler, CA -1926


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Rodney Allen Olds
Keeler, CA -1926





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Spillway at the power plant (southern Sierra) in
Owens River Gorge - 1921


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Shep, Charlie Carr, Loren and Art Olds, on the old Meriel Ranch
Big Pine, CA -1918




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Rodney Allen Olds, age 1 mo, 1926




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NSP Keller, CA -1925


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NSP Keller, CA -1925


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Top Left sitting on gate is Charles Luther, Unknown
In the middle: Unknown, Unknown
In Front: David, Nettie Olds
Round Valley, Bishop CA about 1885





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Owens River Gorge - 1921


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Owens River Gorge - 1921


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Rod's birth place, NSP Keeller, CA - 1947


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School picnic (Art and Doris Olds)
Keeler, CA -1926



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Top Row: C L, Maria, Evelyn
2nd Row: Orin D, Loren, Theodore, unknown, Lillis
Front Row: Jim, Lester, Walter Olds
1904

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Photographs Courtesy Rich McCutchan Archives

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Houses at Keeler during the Souther Pacific RR days.

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Old Carson & Colorado RR passenger car at Keeler

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Southern Pacific RR at the Sierra Talc Company at Keeler - circa 1950

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Southern Pacific RR at Keeler - circa 1950

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Southern Pacific RR at the Cerro Gordo Mine tram terminus at Keeler - circa 1950

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Photograph of the Southern Pacific narrow gauge gondolas at the terminus of the Leschen Aerial Wire Rope Tramway, October 31, 1950.
This is the cable tramway terminal that once helped keep the narrow gauge busy. Surveying for the Cerro Gordo tramway actually began in 1908. In June of 1908 four railroad cars arrived at Keeler with lumber for the tramway. One hundred men were employed to build the tramway, which ran from the Cerro Gordo mine down to the Four Metals Company Smelter, east of Keeler. The tramway began service in the spring of 1909, a few months after the Four Metals Company Smelter had been put into operation in December of 1908.

(Photo courtesy of University of Nevada, Reno - Online Digital Collections)

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Photographs and Text Courtesy Dennis Burke Archives

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Here is a very interesting image of the Cerro Gordo tram house and ore bins in Keeler just over the tracks and east of the Sierra Talc Co. The material from the Cerro Gordo mines would travel down the mountain in buckets that traveled on a cable system. The buckets would be dumped into the ore bins and then into the narrow gauge gondola cars as you see here.
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Flash flood in Keeler looking south. Sierra Talc plant on the right and Cerro Gordo Tram building center behind the string of box cars.

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Keeler Railroad Station. This photo was taken between 1905 and 1912. During those dates the railroad was called the "Nevada & California Railroad." You can see the "N & C" letters on the side o the box car.

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Carson & Colorado Railroad shipping bill for bales of hay being shipped from Independence to Polita in 1888.

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Photographs and Text Courtesy Brian Norden Archives
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Keeler, CA after the 1945 cloudburst.
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Keeler, CA after the 1945 cloudburst.

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For More Keeler pictures see my pages on the Carson & Colorado RR



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