Then and now: Highway 50 in S. Lake Tahoe

Highway 50 at Upper Truckee in the mid-1960s. Photo/South Lake Tahoe

Highway 50 in the Tahoe Valley area in the early 1960s had overhead wires and billboards, like the distant Bank of America billboard seen halfway up the right margin.

There was a second billboard to the right of that one, out of view here. The gap between the bridge and those billboards was a large vacant lot which now is the site of Motel 6 and restaurant.

Across the street, built on landfill, was the ever-popular Outdoorsman, now the Grocery Outlet. The bridge was replaced and the roadway widened in the 1990s.

Foliage is more over grown today along the highway. Photo/Bill Kingman

— Bill Kingman