By Patric Hedlund

The 100th anniversary of the opening of the road that united California was celebrated at historic El Tejon School in Lebec last weekend.

It was a joyful event October 3, complete with birthday cakes, live music and tours in vintage vehicles to Deadman’s Curve, provided courtesy of the Model A…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

Photo captions:

Above: The Model A Club seen through the stone archway of the Tumble Inn ruins on the Ridge Route in 2010; Right: The Centennial birthday cake celebrates 100 years since the opening of the historic road. But the public’s access is now being blocked, Harrison Scott said.

Left: Bonnie Kane of the Ridge Route Communities Museum and (right) Harrison Scott of the Ridge Route Preservation Organization

People swapped family tales and heard speakers tell about Ridge Route adventures, plus the problems keeping the Ridge Route closed to the public now.

Clockwise: Native American Crooked Hat Drummers Ralph Leos and Gary Johnson of Frazier Park, Paul Caldera of Los Padres Estates and Eddie Coyote of Ventura contributed to the festivities; Harrison Scott’s book The Ridge Route: The Road that United California; Chandra Mead of the Ridge Route Communities Museum was thrilled with the turnout and the amount of books that were sold to the public from Bonnie Kane’s five part View from the Ridge Route Series; Jim Berry and Logan Sorrell take off for a Ridge Route Tour in Berry’s Model A Ford.

To see full stories with photos, please purchase a copy of the newspaper at many locations (click this link for a list) throughout the Mountain Communities.

Or, have your newspaper delivered via mail and include internet access. Just call 661-245-3794. Classified ads are FREE to paid subscribers! See front page at www.mountainenterprise.com for details.

The e-Edition is available now with full photos and stories at The Mountain Enterprise e-Edition

(subscriber login required)

This is part of the October 9, 2015 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

Have an opinion on this matter? We'd like to hear from you.