Clear Lake, courtesy Chris Pugh via Flickr
“Clear Lake is in trouble on many fronts,” reported Mendocino County Supervisor Dan Hamburg at last Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting. Clear Lake is in Lake County, not Mendocino County, but Supervisor Hamburg’s promiscuous attentions were nevertheless drawn to our chronically depressed neighbor to the east.
Once the blue collar Riviera to the San Francisco Bay Area’s working classes, Lake County’s once-thriving motorcourts and affordable spas have, since their 1950s heyday, become lakeside poverty centers. And the great lake that inspired them?
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