Retro Friday: Ridgecrest and Crestridge
Posted by Karah
Over the last fifteen to twenty years, Camp Ridgecrest and Camp Crestridge have partnered in more and more activities as an entire camp. Current campers and recent alumni have become accustomed to soirees like carnival, midnight skating, and messy games. Typically there is a meeting between the boys and girls on more than one occasion. But did you know that in the early years of Ridgecrest and Crestridge the camps did not get together hardly at all? It was a much bigger “to-do” for the camps to interact. These pictures were found in a file from 1957 and 1958, and show one such occasion where the girls came over to the boys camp. From these pictures you can see that the girls rode over in the back of a truck to enjoy watermelon on the middle green with the boys. Compared to today, what are some differences and similarities you note in these pictures? What’s your favorite activity that the boys and girls do together? Comment below!
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This is wonderful! Look how dressed-up everyone is…certainly different now! Marva and I, as Program Directors for the camps in the mid-to-late 90s had fun introducing all of the inflatables to Carnival…but they have certainly taken those first ideas (and low budgets) and made them bigger and better! I notice that Roger’s Retreat hasn’t been built and the I-Dock and P-Dock appear to be wooden…and I would love to know what the structure is that is now the location for the Infirmary!