Word: ranching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...circuit is intense. After the healthy activities of the day, the energetic Lake Tahoeist can take off after dinner for the gambling casinos across the state line in Nevada, where any visitor can get a quick piece of the action. Most successful caterer to these mixed interests is River Ranch, a Currier & Ives styled encampment that opened only one year ago on the brink of the Truckee River just south of the lake, and has already become the place to stay for sophisticated young San Francisco marrieds...
...Only a few miles farther south, near the almost alarmingly pretty village of Carmel, the tennis buff can find a kind of nirvana. It is Gardiner's Tennis Ranch, founded in 1958 by the Del Monte Lodge's former tennis pro when the notion struck him that "if nothing else interferes, you can really perfect your tennis game." Based in a California ranch house set in a stand of oak and eucalyptus trees that provided a windbreak, his tiny but flourishing operation has accommodations for 22 people, includes two swimming pools, seven
Phyllis remembers life on the ranch with no pleasure. "We were two or three miles from the next neighbor, and there were no children to play with. There was nobody in the school but my brother and me and an occasional farmer's child. Often we couldn't get a teacher, and Mother would teach...
Died. George Allen Hancock, 89, California oilman and philanthropist, who inherited a 3,000-acre ranch in 1883, discovered the famed La Brea tar pits full of prehistoric remains while digging for oil (which he also found), made a fortune from his wells and the sale of property for what is now Los Angeles' Wilshire district, later gave $7,000,000 to the University of Southern California; of a heart attack; in Santa Maria, Calif...
...three-bedroom town house to a custom-built home on a large lot for $60,000 or more. To avoid a drab uniformity, Simon has assigned the designing responsibilities to five different architectural firms, and they have come through with flying colors. Instead of picture-window ranch houses or cramped Cape Cod saltboxes, Reston offers handsome modern architecture and quality construction found in few developments today...