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Old Posted Jul 5, 2020, 8:34 PM
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e_r, Here's the back of the postcard . . .


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I believe that the newspaper article you noticed made what we call, in technical journalese parlance, a boo-boo in referring to 2nd St., as I can't find any other references to Harlow having a rink on 2nd St. The cafe itself was being overhauled:


LA Herald, 2/22/1916

And Harlow had looked for local talent for the show:


LA Herald, 2/18/1916


Ice Rinks seem to have been all the rage at the time. Within a few months, there were no fewer than three:

At Harlow's Cafe, as we saw; and then . . . at the Alexandria:


LA Times, 4/20/1916

And the Bristol Cafe:


LA Times, 2/27/1916


And then there's . . .


LA Times, 4/26/1916


Harlow was feeling generous. He had just given a free Christmas dinner to 150 local children:


LA Times, 12/26/1915; Harlow smiling at right, wife Lulu Bell benignly presiding over the youngsters, and I suspect son Roy is the grinning young gentleman immediately next to Harlow. The young gent farther back, behind both Mrs. Harlow and Roy, seems to be having a moment of dubiety about the whole enterprise. (The partial pic at bottom concerns an unrelated event.)


The needy were selected, with the help of Harlow's son Roy:


LA Times, 12/26/1915
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