Identifier	ov024
Title	Big Pine, California. Hotel Butler
Creator	Mendenhall, Harry W., 1882-1952;
Date Created	circa 1920-1929
Description	Hotel Butler, Big Pine, California. Partial view of car at right of photograph. Caption on bottom of photograph: "A Home Away From Home Big Pine Calif." Title supplied by cataloger.
Historical Background	The famed discover of the great silver lode at Tonopah, Nevada, Jim Butler moved to Big Pine circa 1902. There he bought “Callow’s Hotel,” from Tom Callow and his wife and renamed it in his honor. The eccentric Butler lived separately from his wife, Belle, in a cabin behind the hotel, with his pet coyote. Butler had a sign with this caption in the hotel's restrooms: “Don’t forget to pull the chain. Los Angeles needs the water.” Circa 1920, he sold the hotel to Harry Temperly, who also ran “Temperly’s Tavern.” Jim Butler died in 1923. The Butler Hotel also served as a social and commercial center. Dances or traveling shows were held in the upstairs floor of the annex (building on the left). Traveling dentists used the first floor of the annex. In 1895, Louis Joseph started his well known valley store, Joseph’s, in a room of the annex, before moving on to another, and more suitable, building on Main Street. The photographer, Harry W. Mendenall, was the owner of the Camera Art Shop in Big Pine, California and a resident of Big Pine from at least 1910 until his death in 1952.
Type	image;
Physical Description	1 postcard : b&w ; 9 x 14 cm
Institution	Center for the Study of Los Angeles Research Collection, Loyola Marymount University
Collection Identifier	http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt3w1022nb
Country of Creation	US
Copyright Status	Public Domain
Copyright Statement	http://library.lmu.edu/dlp/copyright.htm
Language	eng;
Subject (Name)	Hotel Butler; James Butler;
Subject (Place)	Big Pine (Calif.);
Subject (Topic)	Hotels--California--Big Pine; Buildings--California--Big Pine; Commercial buildings--California--Big Pine; Automobiles;
Form/Genre	Photographs; Postcards;
Metacollection Identifier	http://digitalcollections.lmu.edu/
Item/Call Number	J. D. Black Papers, CSLA-15, Series 3: Photographs, Subseries A: Photographic Postcards, Box 5, Sleeve 7