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Originally Posted by Scott Charles
I actually thought you guys were using a set of Compact Discs for reference!
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Just to add a little to
ProphetM's comprehensive reply, the Los Angeles City Directories at LAPL currently run from 1875 to 1942, with a good number of the interim years available (and selected directories from other areas). Then there's a gap until 1956, where the City Directories become Los Angeles Street Address Directories (which I think most of us still refer to as CDs).
The directories up to 1942 provide a wealth of information about individuals, their addresses, occupations etc., and also a section at the rear where businesses are grouped together. This can be really useful when you want to look through, say, all the hotels listed in a certain year.
The later directories lose a lot of the detail (probably inevitable as the population grew). They do, however, have the advantage of being arranged by address. This is really handy when you're trying to identify/confirm photograph locations where several neighboring businesses are visible.
BTW. When I first started reading the forum, I also briefly imagined that other members had compact discs containing all this data, and I can confirm that others have had the same thought since!
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Originally Posted by oldstuff
Working on it...but no connection yet.
George Norman Pierce, of the car company, born in New York state in 1846, he died in Buffalo, NY in 1910.
William Pierce- date of birth not yet known. He had a brother Fred, who came to California shortly after he did. He also had another brother, Clarence Pierce, MD who founded Pierce College in the valley.
Hopefully I can find a connection, but right now the only common threads are the last name and being from New York State.
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Thanks for looking,
oldstuff. I know it's a long shot, but the shared coat of arms, the dates and the upstate New York origins got me wondering.