Big Bear Lake Historical Videos
This historical category contains a collection of online videos which has local Big Bear historians sharing their thoughts and stories about Big Bear’s rich history.
Andy Griffith & Andy Devine – Filming At Big Bear Lake
In the 1970’s, actor/entertainer Andy Griffith made a few movies that were filmed almost exclusively at various locations throughout Big Bear Lake. These movies provide us with a visual record showing how Big Bear Lake has changed over the last forty years. One of the...
The Untold Story of John Fisher and the Big Bear Lake Village
The history of the Pine Knot Lodge and the Big Bear Lake Village have always been linked very closely together. Recently revealed documentation, published in Charles Peckham’s book “Big Bear Lake”, shows just how closely linked they actually were. It turns out that...
Living With Fire at Big Bear Lake – Part 4, The 1940’s and 1950’s
Our four part series of “Living With Fire” looks at how the Big Bear Lake communities have dealt with the threat of fire over the last 100 years. This Part 4 episode takes a quick look at how the Big Bear Valley Fire Departments evolved since the 1940’s. The images...
Living With Fire at Big Bear Lake – Part 3, The Great Fire Of 1946
Our four part series of “Living With Fire” tells how the Big Bear Lake communities have dealt with the threat of fire over the last 100 years. This Part 3 episode takes a look the Great Fire of 1946. The images for this video were provided by the recently published...
Living With Fire at Big Bear Lake-Pt 2, “Village On Lockdown”
Surrounded by the San Bernardino National Forest, Big Bear residents are well aware of the constant threat of both domestic and wildfires. This four part series, of historical videos, looks at how the Big Bear Lake communities have dealt with the threat of fire over...
Living With Fire at Big Bear Lake – Part 1 “1927”
Surrounded by the San Bernardino National Forest, Big Bear residents are well aware of the constant threat of both domestic and wildfires. This four part series of historical videos looks at how the Big Bear Lake communities have dealt with the threat of fire over the...
Pine Knot Landing & “Step In Again-1”
A new book on the history of Big Bear Lake was published released in July 2018, called “Big Bear Lake - The Struggle For Land Water & Power” by Charles Peckham. This video is an excerpt from Chapter 18, about the history of Pine Knot Landing, and a fleet of speed...
Roy Rogers – Happy Trails at Big Bear Lake
This video tells of Roy Rogers and Dale Evens, and their involvement in the Big Bear Lake community back in the 1940’s & 1950’s. It includes clips from a few Movies and TV shows that Roy and Dale filmed in and around Big Bear. The images for this video were...
The Peter Pan Woodland Club at Big Bear Lake
This is the story about the Peter Pan Woodland Club resort at Big Bear Lake. For many years it was Big Bear’s most exclusive resort. It also created Big Bear City. The historical images in this video were provided by the latest edition of “Vanishing Big Bear-2”, and...
Remembering Fawnskin at Big Bear Lake
Here are a few historical images, and a little bit of history about Fawnskin at Big Bear Lake. The historical images for this video were provided by the recently published “Vanishing Big Bear-2” and from the Rick Keppler and Mark Durban historical collections....