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Bishop - 3

All pictures and text on this page from the October 1991 issue of "The Album" by Jane Fisher
unless otherwise note.
Thanks to Rich McCutchan for loaning me his copies of "The Album"

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The infamous Watterson Bank

The Inyo County Bank stood on the northwest corner of Main and Academy Streets. Across the street was the "Watterson Hardware Store. The hard-tired, all purpose pickup truck was used by merchants all over town for many years. Here the Hardware Store is preparing to deliver sacks of coal to its many customers who used coal rather than the expensive wood for their stoves.
[photo - Ernie Kinney Collection]

01/23

The Watterson Brothers - W. W. Watterson and M. O. Watterson

01/23

Owens Valley Bank
(Courtesy of the Bishop Visitor's Center)

Notes on Home: A Villan in a Hero

As I Saw It
(Sam Newlan: An Owens Valley Life)
by Iri Newlan

Looking south on Main Street at the Hotel Istalia in 1926. A couple of years after this photo was taken, the hotel was destroyed by fire. The space is now occupied by a Von's market.

[Ernie Kinney Collection photo]

The First National Bank building on the corner of Main and East Line streets. The store in the center, to the right of the sports runabout racer, became Detrick Drugstore. To the far left of the two Indian ladies on the curb is the new post office.

[Ernie Kinney Collection photo]

Bishop - snowed in! (Photo - Eastern California Museum)	1920s Metro camera crew in Long Valley (Photo courtesy Hal Eaton)
1928 - Eaton Ranch in Long Valley (Photo courtesy of Hal Eaton)	On the road in the 1920s (Photo courtesy of Hal Eaton)
Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle making the first feature film (The Round Up) in Lone Pine just north of the Dow Villa Hotel on the El Camino Sierra - 1920 (Photo and text courtesy of Page Williams)	This boy (born in 1920) posed as a cinematographer on his father's ranch though he preferred riding horses and hanging out with the cowboys in Long Valley. He came back years lagter as a physician reading x-rays and delivering babies in Mammoth, Crowley, Bishop, Lone Pine, and Tonapah. His first month in family practice he delivered 30 babies. Later he was the Inyo Mono County Health Officer. (Text and Photo courtesy of Hal Eaton)
Election Day Parade in Bishop. One of the signs reads - "We are the Men and Women of the Future - Give Us a Chance." (Text and Photo courtesy of Inyo County Sesquicentennial) (Eastern California Museum Collection )	Hotel Istalia (circa 1920) - Bishop, CA (Photo courtesy of Hal Eaton)
Tobacco Flat cowboys - Long Valley (Photo courtesy of Hal Eaton)	The El Camino Sierra from Big Pine to Bishop - early 1920s (Photo courtesy of Hal Eaton)
Bishop - Circa 1920s	06/21 Inyo Creamery of Bishop, CA (Photo courtesy Inyo 1866 - 1966)
Owens River Canal Company Stock Certificate (Photo courtesy of Hal Eaton)
Wilshire Bishop Creek Company Stock Certificate Inyo County's huge mining legacy left behind a sizable paper trail for both famous and forgotten mines, including the well-known Wilshire Bishop Creek gold mine, which was taken over by the Cardinal Gold Mining Company in 1933. The property consisted of 34 claims and was on the east slope of the Sierra Nevada, on the middle fork of Bishop Creek at an elevation of 8500 feet. Production as of 1937 was $1.57M and employed 105 men. Underground workings totaled over 4000 feet. The lowest level was 900 feet below ground. (Text courtesy of Inyo County Sesquincentennial) (Photo courtesy of Irv Dierdorff)
Bishop (Photo courtesy of Hal Eaton)	Movie making on the Eaton Ranch in Long Valley - mid 1920s (Text and Photo courtesy of Hal Eaton)
Parade in downtown Bishop (Curtis Phillips photo)	The "Big Flood" of 1936 (Curtis Phillips photo)
Somewhere in Long Valley, perhaps Whitmore (Photo courtesy of Hal Eaton)	Crooked Creek Canyon in Long Valley - 1904 [W.T. Lee Collection at USGS] (Photo courtesy of Hal Eaton)
Heading back up to Long Valley though, though running late. In the end Fred Eaton was right about the dam not leaking, and Mulholland well that is another story. The old engineer's saying "you pay me now, or you pay me later--but it will cost a whole lot more." Our grandfather, Harold, the secret agent in the Owens Valley got his cattle ranch, never went back to complete one semester for his Stanford engineering degree, living his life as a cattleman and developer in the Eastern Sierra. His foresight in land and water rights enabled not only the modern City of Los Angeles but also helped his descendants to go to Stanford and the UCs and grow-up in the Eastern Sierra. (Text and Photo courtesy of Hal Eaton)	Bishop (Photo courtesy of Hal Eaton)
American Legion 40 and 8 train of Bishop, CA. The "train" used to be parked behind GF Bulpitt Part. It was used in parades and at special times like Christmas to take kids out to the airport to see Santa, It was driven like a regular engine on roads. Voiture is the French word for car. (Inyo County sesquicentennial photo) (Text courtesy of Diane WIlliams )

Matchbook covers courtesy of Rich McCutchan

04/22

Janie's Ranch
(Photo courtesy Don Nichols)

11/23

Janie 1

Janie 2

Janie 3

Janie 4

Janie 5

Janie 6

Janie 7

Photocards courtesy of Rich McCutchan
Barber Shop - Main Street - Bishop, CA
Margie Bell Showaltar and baby Neel - Bishop, CA
William Edward Detrick Biography Courtesy of Hal Eaton

	Movie set in Owens Valley
Packer on the trail to Piute Pass - Bishop, CA	1914 Carnival - Bishop, CA Identification of band members.
Packing apples at the Hillside Orchard - Bishop, CA	West Bishop School - Bishop, CA
Bishop, CA residents	Bishop, CA residents
Main Street - Bishop, CA	Main Street - Bishop, CA
Kittie Lee Inn - Bishop, CA	Clark Houise - Bishop, CA
Kittie Lee Inn - Bishop, CA	07/21 Jack's Waffle Shop (Photo courtesy Bob Pilatos)
Town House Motel - Bishop, CA	Main Street - Bishop, CA - 1954
26-mule team - Bishop, CA	M.S. Murtrie Brothers supply station, Lake Sabrina - Bishop, CA
Butchering a steer - Bishop, CA - 1911	Home north of Schats Bakery - Bishop, CA
Union Oil Company gas station - Bishop, CA - 1926	Cattle ranch - Bishop, CA
Inyo Can Supply - Bishop, CA	Burton Frasher taking photo of fisherman - Bishop, CA
Arbelour Ranch grain silos and hay wagon - Bishop, CA - 1920s This was located where the Millpond Recreation Area is west of Bishop	Arbelour Ranch grain silos and hay wagon - Bishop, CA - 1920s This was located where the Millpond Recreation Area is west of Bishop
Power House No. 2, Nevada California Power Company - Bishop, CA	Cardinal Lodge - Bishop, CA - 1956
Homestead cabin - Andrews Camp - Bishop, CA Built by W. M. Coats in 1885	On the road to Andrews Camp - Bishop, CA - 1916
Schober's Mountain Ranch on Bishop Creek - Bishop, CA	Bishop Mine - Bishop, CA
Country Roads take me home - Bishop, CA - 1920	Tungsten mine - Bishop, CA
Gold mine - Bishop, CA - 1920	Owens Valley "Red Fish" sign
Tungsten mine - Bishop, CA	Riding through the pine trees - Bishop, CA
A perfect day - Bishop, CA	Limit catches from the High Sierra - Bishop, CA
Rainbow Trout of the High Sierra - Bishop, CA	Promised trout from the High Sierra - Bishop, CA
Rainbow Trout of the High Sierra - Bishop, CA	Rainbow Trout of the High Sierra - Bishop, CA
Promised trout from the High Sierra - Bishop, CA	Hard rock work in the High Sierra - Bishop, CA
Eaton Chicken Ranch in 1910 - Bishop, CA	Near Warm Springs in 1905 - Bishop, CA
Near Bishop in 1931 - Bishop, CA	Poleta - Bishop, CA
09/21 Paradise Camp - Bishop, CA	09/21 Paradise Camp - Bishop, CA
09/21 Paradise Camp - Bishop, CA
11/23 Paradise Camp - Bishop, CA - 1932

06/24

Kim Carrington Wright writes:

Thank you for these pictures and messages. We think it was the summer of 1962, but several Bell Helicopter families stayed at Paradise Camp. Bell was testing helicopters near Bishop, CA, and my father was a flight test engineer. We made several trips to California, but this one was our favorite because of Rock Creek and Paradise Camp. The cabins were rustic and I remember that we played outside all day long, with other Bell Helicopter kids, up and down the creek. Not far north from Paradise Camp, Rock Creek split and there was a small island. Our cabin was right on Rock Creek and there was a bridge near our cabin. My family was Reese and June Carrington, me (Kim - I was around 10, Kyle, Dean and Wade was about 2 years of age. Thank you for sharing your pictures and stories on this site.

May 2024

Offerings Gleened off of Ebay
VPerry's Variety Store and various matchbook covers
Various matchbook covers

Earnest G. Kinney postcard artwork - 1978

03/23

Earnest G. Kinney postcard artwork
(Photo courtesy of Mary Anne Mairs)

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