Ticino Hotel had guest from the nearyby railroad station and its employees.

The original Ticino Hotel, west side of the Plaza, was lost in a fire.

In 1923 the hotel was sold to Mose Mastelotto, then inherited by his daughter, Antonetta and her husband Henry Marioni in 1929.

In 1945, Marioni daughter, Helen, and her husband Ted Dunlap inherited the Hotel running it until 1991.

[5][6] A historical marker is at Swiss Hotel, placed by the California State Park Commission.