Then and now: The corner of love

Highway 50 and Kingsbury Grade was not always a major intersection in Stateline. Photo/Bill Kingman collection

Kingsbury Grade in the early 1960s was mostly unpaved, joining Highway 50 with a simple stop sign posted on a corner of dirt, rocks and trees. A gate blocked wintertime travel over Kingsbury’s summit at Daggett Pass.

Love’s Wedding Chapel was a fixture on the South Shore. Photo/Dave Borges collection

That corner of Kingsbury and Highway 50 is where the Rev. Raymond Love of Nevada opened the South Shore’s first wedding chapel about 1970. According to People magazine, Love’s Wedding Chapel monopoly was conducting 5,000 weddings a year.

Love’s Chapel came down in May 2003. Photo/Bill Kingman

Competing wedding chapels later opened in neighboring California. Love’s Wedding Chapel on Kingsbury Grade closed and was demolished in 2003.

It’s hard to know this corner was ever developed. Photo/Bill Kingman

Landscaping with shrubs, trees and grass has reclaimed that corner, now fronting a major intersection.

— Bill Kingman