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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
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Quite some time ago I happened upon this rare rppc (real photo postcard) of Tom Mix's vacation home on Catalina Island.
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e_r, I find an intriguing fragment involving this, incomplete because Google only allows me a snippet; the “they” in the following appears to be Western author Zane Grey with his wife:
“They soon bought a house near Avalon harbor. Unfortunately, it happened to be directly behind Tom Mix's house. Mix was flamboyant, loud, and king of the movie western. Grey was taciturn, understated, and lord of the western novel. The two did not get along. When Mix showed up at the Catalina Tuna Club, Grey's holy […],” from
Maverick Heart: The Further Adventures of Zane Grey, by Stephen May and Stephen J. May (2000).
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Edit add:
"directly behind" in the above quote is a bit of an overstatement:
gsv, slightly altered for our purposes.