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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire
Does anyone recognize this cluster of buildings, obviously then new--a school, an asylum...? Have we seen it before on NLA?
Cliff Wesselmann |
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Originally Posted by CaliNative
My guess would be the old Camarillo State Mental Hospital? The hills look right, with a few scattered oaks. Now a state college. Just a guess. The gathering of people in top hats, looks like a grand opening. The fat guy at the podium, the governor, or maybe the warden????
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We are looking at the dedication ceremony for the Tehachapi Women's Prison on May 22, 1932. The guy in the top hat on stage on both photos
appears to be California Governor James Rolph (the kid with the striped cap is in both photos, too). I don't know who the fat guy is, but he's on
the left
in this other photo.
UCLA
Los Angeles Times, May 23, 1932 (partial article):
ProQuest via LAPL
The above-mentioned verdant Cummings Valley is
here. And
e_r posted about
Clara Phillips in 2014.
More Tehachapi prison-related photos at
Calisphere.
Great post on 2100 Sunset Plaza,
Lorendoc!