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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
 Amazing story! I've never heard of purified extract of turkey opium before.
-thanks for the link GW.
By coincidence, I happened across this fine photograph of the old courthouse on eBay last night.
you can bid on it here.
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/B-W-8X10-PHOT...4AAOSwYIdWFbZu |
I believe that's the middle portion of the ca. 1869 Rendall panorama, a copy of which I have on the wall behind me [
points over shoulder], see? The puff of smoke is the very same shape. The whole thing goes from the Bilderrain house at the corner of Justicia and Temple (at the left of the whole panorama) around to where S. Hill St. would be (at the right of the whole panorama), giving us North, East, and South. I've always wondered if he also photographed West, but thought no one would be interested in that portion of the panorama ("Who wants to see dry hills and chaparral?", he probably reflected), so never printed that part.