Photo by Zen Page 23 Previous Page Next Page . . . In 1921, James Edgar [Spaulding] was born. . . . moved to Pasadena . . . home on Hill Avenue. In 1926, we moved into our home at 1271 North Chester Avenue where we, the “younger family,” spent our last years together. Big Bear Lake Our summers at Spaulding’s “Trail of the Seven Wonders” were some of the happiest in my memories. Father purchased 1440 acres from the Talmadge brothers about 1922. These brothers raised cattle on their ranch at Big Bear in the summer and drove them down to the desert for the winter. Father subdivided most of this land, ran water lines from the springs, named the roads, and made the natural meadow into a golf course. He loved that place. A mountainside became a three-tiered waterfall with ferns and flowers growing in an artistic yet natural setting. Near the waterfall was a cave with a stuffed grizzly bear inside. The seven wonders for which the whole tract was named included: tall pines by the main road (the four sentries and the two giants), an aerial ant hill . . . the trunk that looked like a fat Buddha. Grace remembers the first summer we went up from Long Beach. That July, she was thirteen years old . . .