The theme of this issue is “old wine in new bottles.” In each of our three essays, the authors tell new stories that answer timeless questions. In “The Nature of Her Business: Katherine Chandler and Female Proprietors of Summer Resorts at Lake Tahoe, 1900–1930,” Janet Kaidantzis uses unexplored scrapbooks and other memorabilia to reveal entrepreneurial women carving places for themselves in Lake Tahoe’s booming tourism industry. Linda L. Day’s “Vernacular Houses in Nineteenth-Century California: From Adobes to Redwood Cottages” blends Day’s training as historian, architect, and urban planner to explore how culture, materials, and technology shaped early settlers’ housing choices. Ruminations on cultural and economic transformations define “Oakland Tough: Extreme Masculinity in the Other City by the Bay,” as Mitchell Schwarzer combs a multitude of secondary sources to ask new questions about a Bay Area town overshadowed by its more famous sister.
Uncork, savor.
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