Cave used by Indians at Church Creek Ranch

Indian pictographs at Church Creek caves

  Camping at Tassajara c.l900

  Hiking on the Tony Trail c.l900

  Charles Quilty c.l890

  Early log cabin at Tassajara c.l912

  Tassajara Road, c. 1900

The Tassajara Stage c.l900

  J.T. Pollock’s flier with photos of him, horse, and wagon on Tassajara Road in the early 1890s, [Think this is where the creek comes down and emptied into a bathtub with water for animals and cars. Bathtub was there until a landslide destroyed it later in the Zen period. - DC]

  L - Early dining room - R - Stone bathhouse

  The hotel c.1892 - from McDonald book. Book also says it opened in 1893

  Carr Abbott c. 1917

  Jeffery House c. 1900

The Iron Spring c.1915

The Magnesium Spring c.1915

  The Magnesium Spring c.1895

A drinking spring c.1890

Two main springs c.l890

  Reservoir at the back of the stone bathhouse c.l890

  The stone bathhouse c.l900

The kitchen and dining room c.l890

  The Club House c. l910

The steam room and tent c .1910

  Plunges and steam room with tent c.l906

  The Tassajara Road c.1898

  The Oksen's  campwagon heading for Tassajara c.1915

Charles and Helen Quilty April 21, 1899

Bill Jeffery c.1900

Bill and Mary Jeffery cl901

Guests c.1910

  Guests c. 1914

Helen Quilty c. 1940

Lou G. Hare c.1904 Surveying at Tassajara

  The baths c.1906

Kimono lane c.1915

At the baths c. 1906

  c. 1925

c. 1925

c. 1915

  The hotel c. 1905

Hot water spring c. 1905

  The staff c. 1910

  Helen Quilty and a guest drinking water at the Magnesium Spring c.1905

  Model L Touring Car c.1910

  Bill Jeffery's Cadillac c.1914

  Tassajara hotel c.1912

The Tassajara  Stage c.1917

Kenneth Vanderhurst c.1923

  The telephone stop c.1930

  Tassajara Stage c.1917

  Tassajara road and stage c.1920

  c. 1915

  c. 1917

Waiting for the Stage c1917

  c. 1920

c. 1920

  c. 1915

Heading for the baths  c.1925

  Mamie Whalen resting c.1917

The hotel veranda c.1905

Ira Bailey 1916

  Sam the cook c. l917

  The dining room July 4th, 1912

  Dining under Gossip Oak c.1910

c. 1917

  c. 1915

  The dining room July 4^th, 1914

  Gossip Oak c.1918

"Old Tass" c. 1910 - gone before Becks bought it in 1960. He said on a boulder down by lower barn?

  Indian maiden c.1930

A hike up the road to see the Indian maiden c.1925

Photos and history of Indian paintings by non Indians at Tassajara

Helen Quilty c.1925

  The dance platform c.1930

Flag rock c.1910

On a hike c.1910

The Narrows c.1919

  Swimming in the creek c.1915

The swimming pool opening May 1921

  Stylish swimsuits c.1930

  The fishing was incredible c.1930

  W.J.  Rhyner May.  1960

  c. 1915

  c. 1898

  c. 1920

c. 1920

  c. 1920

"Doc" Plotnekoff c .1917

all the hired help in 1917

  "Coffee"   c.1917

Yucca plant c.1930

Tassajara road c.1920

July fourth 1920

  The Cascades c.1920

c.1920

c. 1930

c. 1920

Club House c.1932

Inside the Club House c.1932

William "Pat" Foster

  The baths c.1930

  Plunges with six private bathtub rooms c.1928

The cabins c.1928

  The hotel c.1930

Svend Kraul driving the stage c.1932

Malcolm Laird and the stage c.1933

Bruce Robb and the stage c. 1938

  The bridge to the plunges c.1930

  The dining room c.1930

Australian Plane trees planted in the 1930's

The Tassajara Truck c.1930

Lorimier Diesel Motor c.1938

The Pine Barroom c.1947

The Pine Rooms c. 1947

Helen Quilty-Holohan c.1935

Pajama Lane c.1947

The Club House c.1947

Guests c.1947

Ralph Myers c. 1945

The hotel c.1947

  Helen Myers c.1947

The cabins c.1947

  Cabins interior c.1947

  Phillip Terry c.1949

  Mrs. Quilty-Holohan's platform at the back of the hotel, burning 1949

The hotel, burning 1949

  "We're standing in what's left of our hotel room." Mr. Mehne

  The burned hotel 1949

"When things get really bad you either fall apart, or you laugh about it."
- Helen Myers-Terry

page for 1949 hotel fire

The dining room c.1950

The cooks c.1950

  The Sunday buffet  c.1950

  The railroad bell c.1950

The steam rooms on right, bath houses behind c.1950

  Guests c.1950

  The dining room c.1950

Bathhouses c.1950

  The stone bathhouse as living quarters c.1950

  The lobby and office c.1950

The office c.1950

  Angela and Frank Sappok c.1952

The dining room c.1952

The Pine Room bar c.1957

  Dancing in the bar c.1957

  Tassajara road after the flood - April 1958

The Tassajara Hot Springs Legend

  The mural on the wall of the plunges 1958

Photos and history of Indian paintings by non Indians at Tassajara

  Admiral Lester Hudson

Margaret Hudson

Anna and Robert Beck 1960

The lounge 1962

  Lumpy c.1960

  Robert Beck c.1962

  The dining room c.1962

More ZC era images from Marilyn's book