From 8-year old Hilda’s diary:
I have never lived in a Hotel. This is a very beautiful one full of nice people all dressed in nice clothes, as if they were going to a party. Everyone at home forgot that I don’t know how to comb my hair and Daddy couldn’t manage to comb it and it was full of snarls so he had to ask one of the maids to come in to help. She had to come in three times a day and comb it as it got messy all the time. She doesn’t do it as nice as Alma but Daddy says that “It at least doesn’t look like a rat’s nest like it did when we arrived after the train ride.”
I do not know where Hilda and her father stayed. The photos below were taken of the Tahoe Tavern around 1910.
Photo of Tahoe Tavern, Lake Tahoe. approximately 1910 by Harold A. Parker, photCL 402 (40061), Harold A. Parker Studio Collection of Negatives, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Photo of Tahoe Tavern, Lake Tahoe. approximately 1910 by Harold A. Parker, photCL 402 (40010), Harold A. Parker Studio Collection of Negatives, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.