Interview: Robert Rosenthal
Title: History of the Hotel Leger, Mokelumne Hill [sound recording] : tape recorded interview by Marge Webb :/ Robert Rosenthal.
Interviewee: Rosenthal, Robert
Recording Location: Mokelumne Hill, CA
Date Recorded: Winter 1972-73
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Direct Link: https://apps.gocolumbia.edu/oralhistory/listen?161
Call Number: F868 .T915 R81 1973
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Year Recorded: 1973
Physical Description: 1 online resource (3 audio files (81 min., 08 sec.).
Series Title: (Columbia Colllege oral history series)
General Notes: Contents outline (typescript, slides) accompanies recording.
Contents: Side 1: Introduction and education background -- Decision to move West -- Decision to move to San Francisco -- Discovery of Hotel Leger on weekend trip -- Made offer to buy hotel -- Hotel purchased -- Construction of jail -- Garden court theater -- Added music to bar -- Use of hotel for t.v. and movie settings -- Recognition and publicity -- French couple -- Records in county museum at Murphys -- Side 2: History, 1854 -- County Court house built, later abandoned -- Leger purchased Court House -- Converting general store into theater-banquet hall -- Stage curtains -- Named Garden Courthouse Theater -- Cemetery -- Side 3: Nick, the Russian -- Transportation during Gold Rush -- Bob's house -- Walking tour map -- Floors in Bob's house -- Art Gallery -- Metamorphosis of town -- summary.
Local Notes: None
Held By: COLUMBIA
Geographic Term: Mokelumne Hill (Calif.)--History--Personal narratives.
Geographic Term: Calaveras County (Calif.)--History--Personal narratives.
