Great insights for some of us that were “there’, but went out into the world before knowing some of the other ‘happenings’ – such as the infamous Terry Trupp incidents

Good to see Brad Murphy noticed as 1st Mayor – it is my contention that it must take a huge amount of work to create a City from scratch – (I had experience creating a Police Department from scratch for a City of 105,000 a few years later, so can relate). . .

Mr. Murphy’s first office was in a tiny corner of the quonset hut that was the theater then, by Park Avenue). . . the second, much bigger, office, was in the corner of the L-shaped Buchanan building across from Denny’s (then the Al Tahoe post office was on that parcel). . .but he sold his practice under pressure of workload & as cancer took hold.

The Buchanan’s (Rudy & Jeannie) were respectively, the Judge here; Jeannie was his wife and partner. . .

Brad Murphy succumbed to that cancer a few years later (the stress of a new city ?), after my mother became the 1st Controller of Barton Hospital when he sold his practice.

I was two weeks shy of my 21st birthday when South Lake Tahoe was founded, and my mother kept several pristine editions of the Tahoe Daily Tribune – November 10th, 1965 – with its’ huge, bold font announcing: “A CITY IS BORN”, along with the pictures of the first 5 City Council winners. . . that was just two days after her birthday, which she considered her “gift”. . .

Thanks, Kae & Brandi. . .