Then and now: Scarce Barton Ranch remnants

Boarded up Barton Ranch building in South Lake Tahoe. Photo/Bill Kingman

Today, the historic Barton Ranch front building still stands unobtrusively on highways 50 and 89 near the Y in South Lake Tahoe across from Pier 1 Imports.

The Y today. Photo/Bill Kingman

The original Barton Ranch extensive land holdings, which were on both sides of the highway, included where today’s Barton Memorial Hospital stands.

Tahoe Sierra Market
Photo/Lake Tahoe Historical Society

Next to the Barton Ranch home building and across the driveway is the end wing of today’s South Y Center.

Until the late 1960s, left-to-right on this same site were Tahoe Sierra Market, Miller’s Cabins, and Tahoe Valley Lodge , and more, up to the 50-89 junction.

According to long-time (since 1947) local

Miller’s Cabins
Photo/Lake Tahoe Historical Society

resident Dave Wakeman, Tahoe Sierra Market was

Tahoe Valley Lodge
Photo/Lake Tahoe Historical Society

owned and operated by local meat purveyors Fenn Barkley and his brother-in-law Harvey Gross, who also founded Harvey’s Gambling Hall and Saloon at Stateline in 1946.

— Bill Kingman