| 1963 - June. Bob's Grandpa Hansen, was an avid fisherman
who tied his own flies and regularly visited Big Bear. Shown are Bob's
mom Nancy, Bob, (age 5) Kathy (age 3) and Tom (age 1). This cabin still exists today at the Colorado lodge on Jeffries,
about 1/4 mile southwest of Sleepy Forest. The lake was often nearly
empty on dry years in those days. The picture on the right is Bob's Aunt
Mamie and Grandma Hansen, taken while we fish off the old Indian Dam. |
Bob's Church History |
| 1978 - Bob and Kathy married this year and ski together in Big
Bear. Shown is a trip to Crystal Ridge, (Now Magic Mountain Alpine
Slide). |
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here to see the Pool Family in 2006 |
| 1979 - With Bob's parents, Marvin and Nancy Pool, they buy a 6 cabin lodge,
called South Pines Cottages for its location near the South Shore of Big
Bear Lake. Shown are cabins 4 and 5, now 204 and
203. Bob walked into 4
and the floor collapsed. It hadn't been remodeled since 1945. |
That'll be the honeymoon cottage, his mom says. And she proceeds to
explain that married couples these days would need romantic getaways and
we would build them. Compare with 204 today (click). |
| 1980 - January 22, Kathy and Bob move in to cabin 6,
(now 202). Kathy sits on deck holding our first dog while her Mom and
Bob look on. It took a week to open the first rental, Cabin 2. Sister
Kathy Pool helped the first month and then went off to become Kathy
Spencer. Tom moved in and helped for several years off and on. |
Cabin 6 was turned into a rental in 1983 and a small office was
added where Kathy was sitting. Because it was quiet, Arnold slept here. Click
to see 202 today. The small office is still there, locked up like a time
capsule. |
| 1980 - January 30, Cabin 2 (now
208) rents to Jeff **** and
his girlfriend for $28. We start a fire and put a pot of stew on the
stove for them. 2 weeks later cabin 1 (now
209) is opened. |
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| August 1980 - Kathy gives birth to Matt. Bob is hanging
drywall that day and Kathy first cleans the cabins and calls the
scheduled guests to let them know she will leave the key under the
doormat when she goes to have her baby. |
 
Bob goes to the hospital after work to see Matt born. The local hospital
puts us in a lake view room and feeds us porterhouse steaks and pink
champagne after the birth. |
| 1980 - Bob puts a homemade snowplow on the truck and
builds a homemade sign (that barely says "South Pines Cottages". |
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| The Pool Family, (Marvin, Nancy, Tim, 10, Bob, Kathy,
Matt) celebrates first Big Bear Christmas in
remodeled cottage 4, now 204. That small cabin had
one bedroom, 2 closets and 2
double sleeper couches then. |
Again, compare with 204 today (click).
It now sleeps just 2 persons with a Jacuzzi tub. It finally became a
honeymoon cottage in 1987. |
| 1981 - We enjoy our second Oktoberfest and Kathy helps
out the Chambermaids in her Dirndl. It was a small-town party back then.
In 1980, 2 month old Matt is left on a table of beer-drinking friends
while Bob and Kathy dance the chicken-dance. What? These guys were
talented, they could drink a beer with no hands, while standing on their
head! Kathy made a 4-something (months in Big Bear?) cake for Marvin and
Nancy. |
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Bob goes to the hospital after work to see Matt born. The local hospital
puts us in a lake view room and feeds us porterhouse steaks and pink
champagne after the birth.
