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Description
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/generalinformation/departments/digitallibraryprogram/copyrightandreproductionpolicy/
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
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