Lake Olympia was a real resort in the Sierra foothills between Grass Valley and Nevada City, open from 1901 to the 1950s. It no longer exists, but I've always been drawn to this piece of local history. Using Vince Seck and Tanis Thorne's book Lake Olympia and Glenbrook Park, along with research at the local historical society, I've created a set of ephemera imagining the kinds of printed pieces that might have existed, a letterhead, a season ticket, a matchbook, a dance handbill, a resort map, aged as if they were recently discovered in some long-forgotten drawer.
Lake Olympia was a real resort in the Sierra foothills between Grass Valley and Nevada City, open from 1901 to the 1950s. It no longer exists, but I've always been drawn to this piece of local history. Using Vince Seck and Tanis Thorne's book Lake Olympia and Glenbrook Park, along with research at the local historical society, I've created a set of ephemera imagining the kinds of printed pieces that might have existed, a letterhead, a season ticket, a matchbook, a dance handbill, a resort map, aged as if they were recently discovered in some long-forgotten drawer.
