Then and now: Changes to Bijou

Occasionally I find additional interesting photos about sites previously visited on Then and Now. Here is more pictorial history of the Bijou Center and Conolley’s in South Lake Tahoe:

Young’ Bijou in the 1920s. Photo/Lake Tahoe Historical Society

Bijou in the early 1900s included the Young Brothers’ Bijou Resort. Neighboring Conolley’s Resort was just to the west, also on the beach.

Four-wheel drive was not an option in the 1950s. Photo/Del Laine Collection, Lake Tahoe Historical Society

By 1951, Young’s included a market, fountain, and the Bijou Post Office. Adjacent was the historic Bal Bijou dance hall built in the 1930s.

The Conolley enclave was leveled more than 40 years ago. Photo/Del Laine Collection, Lake Tahoe Historical Society

The last of Conolley’s buildings later housed Nel’s Tahoe Supply before being razed in the early 1970s. Today that site is the Beach Retreat and Lodge (formerly Timber Cove).

The Bijou Center as it looks in 2015. Photo/Bill Kingman

What was the Young Brothers Resort is today’s Bijou Center. CVS now occupies most of what was Bal Bijou.

— Bill Kingman