While early on the town had a store, auto repair shop and gas station, its most famous landmark was its namesake, rock-faced hotel constructed in 1923.

In the 1920s, a trip from Los Angeles to a town such as Lone Pine might take two or three days necessitating a stay at locations like Little Lake before continuing onwards.

[3] In the 1940s, “sportsman traffic heading northward along US 395 considered Little Lake an important stop to spray cooling water on boiling radiators, feed hungry stomachs or to get gasoline.”[3] As technology improved, travelers no longer needed to stop as often for rest and supplies.

With these improvements small settlements like Bramlette, named after the founder and later renamed Little Lake, became increasingly obsolete.

Though it remains properly marked as a geographic location on a few maps, the entire townsite had been restored to its natural state by the summer of 2001.