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Residents grabbed their Argus 35-millimeter lm cameras to document the enchanting visions that laid before them. Ed Cleaveland, beloved Hidden Hills resident from 1951 until his passing in 2000, traipsed around in the snow with his pair of heavy rubber mucking boots, duster coat and old cowboy hat to capture photographs of the rare moment. is “gentlemen’s rancher” out t of broken-in boots and a worn hat was the common uniform for Hidden Hills residential o -duty astronauts, actors and architects who were looking to work in their backyards and hike around their rural neighborhood. is time Ed put on his boots and hat to capture the wonder of this unusual Southern Californian snow.
In the softness of a dark dawn, Ed woke up quietly and got dressed trying not to disturb his wife Mary and their children. He creaked open his front door and walked with his lm camera on Long Valley Road in the silence of early morning snow. He hiked in the open mountains around Hidden Hills in his attempts to capture the rare snow scenes from every angle possible. He walked down chilly streets and took photographs of friends' homes, of snow dusted hills and frosted street signs, not knowing that within that hour of photography on January 22, 1962, he would capture moments to be eternalized in local history.
During the 20th century, the rst snow to fall upon Los Angeles County and city was in the early 1920’s. With the rst “midwest snowstorm” to hit the area in January of 1932, during the thick of an otherwise sunbaked Great Depression. is was before Hidden Hills inception, so the streets of Long Valley, Jed Smith and many more would need to wait to have their rst kiss with snow until early January 1949.
e next wave of full snow would come in 1962, only one year after Hidden Hills became incorporated as a city. e formation of the city came to fruition when the Round Meadow Homeowners Association and Long Valley Homeowners Association merged on October 19th, 1961. One year later a blanket of snow covered the newly formed establishment, lling residents with hopeful emotions, making for a sweet, but unexpected one year commencement. e next and last blanket of snow the Los Angeles area would experience would be in February 1989 when snow again covered local cities, even reaching its way to dusting the palm trees in Malibu.
During the evening of that rst snow storm sixty years ago, Christmas music echoed in the warm living rooms inside snowcovered homes dotting the roads between Long Valley and Round Meadow. One can imagine sleepy children laying sideways on beige, oral couches with their attention xated upon bright tinseled Christmas trees that they begged their parents not to take down. eir tired eyes slowly unfocused from details until the decorated conifers melted into a kaleidoscopic triangle of pooling colored lights. e children of Hidden Hills were slowly lulled to sleep as snow urries painted the paned windows of the one story ranch homes, creating the backdrop for a greatly sentimental moment in local history. HH
