Retro Friday: The Lodge
Posted by anthologycreative
Did you know that Camp Ridgecrest for Boys used to have a building called “The Lodge”? When most people hear “The Lodge” they think of Camp Crestridge. However, this picture in the 1932 brochure shows one of the most central buildings in camp at the time. The Lodge was an eight room house. As you can see it was a two story house that had great porches where you could stand and see most of the activities going on around camp. The camp offices, nurses station and canteen were all located in the Lodge.
Camp has spread out more since 1932 and we now have separate buildings for all three of those things. The offices are now located across from the lake in what we call the “Lake Lodge”. In 2009 a new infirmary was built to better serve our campers in a more central location. Our canteen building, the “Depot” is the old Ridgecrest train station. The Depot is now in the location similar to where the Lodge was in the picture.
Do you remember the Lodge? We love to hear your stories about camp in past years. Comment below to tell us!
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I remember this being painted a deep green from 1958 to 1967.
Norman, our paths may have crossed. I was a camper from 1959 (58) to 1963. I attended the first summer session in 59 (or 58 I could be off by a year.) I was in cabin 2. I attended the second session for the other years. At that time Camp Ridgecrest was divided up into two summer sessions and each session lasted five weeks. I don’t remember visiting Lodge very often during my days at camp. To the blog administrators, is there a way to verify the years that I attended camp?