I posted this on the store website, it's the only one of Whitney Zone my mom had from 1956, she doesn't remember going up there, her only memory of Owens Valley was boredom and sleeping through it, glad my grandfather knew of the portal road!



Story behind the photo is this, grandpa decided to take his two daughters and one niece (who took the photo) on a two-week tour from San Diego up to Yosemite for a week, then SF and Oregon then down through Reno and Owens Valley back home. (I found the other slides from Yosemite BTW). By the time they got to Reno my mom's dad had only four dollars left so he went into a casino and came out a couple hours later with enough money for gas back home, on the way back the above photo was taken. Seems like in 1956 you could've gone from Reno to San Diego on $4.