Gone, but not Forgotten
Little Lake, Inyo Co., CA
By
Little
Little
The
town site of Little Lake sat on a flat section of lava west of the highway and
mostly east of the railroad line. It was
famed for its rock-faced, two-story hotel (built in 1923), gas station and a
café that served tourists and sportsmen heading north to the eastern Sierras,
or south towards urban
Sometime
around 1966, US 6/395 was rerouted to the east behind
the town, relegating it to off ramp status.
Beginning in the late 1980s, small road towns like this began to die due
to more fuel efficient, air-conditioned vehicles that didn’t need to stop as
often. In 1982 the trains stopped
running through this part of the line, and in 1989 a fire ravaged the upper
floor of the hotel, and it was closed.
We passed through shortly after and noticed that the lower portion was
used as a private residence. In 1997 the
post office closed, and in the summer of 2001 I noticed the hotel and other
buildings had been torn down, and all buildings except a green cabin on the
west side of the site had been removed.
That cabin is said to have been the post office. The SP railroad tracks in this area were
removed in December 1998, and today, the quiet site is nothing like it was a
mere 50 years ago.
Little
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Little
Location:
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NW¼
Sec 17, NE¼ Sec 18, T27S, R38E, Mount Diablo Meridian
·
Latitude:
35.9366936 / 35° 56’ 12” N
·
Longitude:
-117.9067408 / 117° 54’ 24” W
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