A side-angle view of The California Hotel. Transcribed from the notes attached to the picture, "Building burned. It was on the corner across from present 76 Station on the same side of the street. Calif. was the first place Mrs. Chloe Lisle lived in Beatty. Her mother ran it. Job Cobb was the owner. In the background are buildings belonging to Charlie Finney who mined in the Grapevine Mts. The building on the right is lived in presently by Mark Henderson of the Exxon station. Judy's Bar replaced the building on the far right."
Blue-line print ; 74 x 36 cm on sheet 79 x 61 cm. Survey was competed on March 8, 1924. Signed by the owners of the piece of property for the addition Roy W. Martin, Forest R. Mildren, William E. Ferron, and A. W. Ham, signed by the surveyor J.T. McWilliams, and notarized on March 31, 1924. Approved by the Board of City Commissioners and signed by the major W. C. German and by Florence S. Doherty, city clerk, on April 1, 1924. Recorded in Book 1 of plats, page 47. Includes township and range grid.
Howard Hughes in the Lockheed 14 in Los Angeles, California. Typed on a piece of paper attached to the image: "Howard Hughes off on first leaf of flight to Paris. Los Angeles, Cal. -- Howard Hughes, Millionaire oil man and speed flyer, at the controls of his huge Lockheed "Flying Laboratory" as it took off from here for its leisurely flight to New York, from where Hughes and his crew will fly to Paris and perhaps around the world. 7/4/1938 Credit line (ACME)."