Hole in the Clouds


Magical Mystery Tour

Jul 12, 2013

All we know about this photo is that it was apparently taken in Calaveras County, California, about a hundred years ago. Looks like the boys in the band were family men.

Calaveras County is a famous place in the gold-mining country of the Sierra foothills, settled in a hurry by forty-niners and immortalized (sort of) by Mark Twain in his story about competitive frog-jumping. 

Calaveras is Spanish for skulls.

vintage   California   band   1900s   Calaveras County   (Image credit: NDLXS via Shorpy)