1926 Bishop

1926 Bishop

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

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]

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

The "Big Flood" of 1936.

[Curtis Phillips photo]

Parade in downtown Bishop.

[Curtis Phillips photo]

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]

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