I alas can't (yet) provide information on the Security Title Company Bldg. etc.; but in scrounging around for info on it, I ran across Wikipedia’s interesting article on its owner, Lewis William Klinker:
Reduced from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_William_Klinker:
“Klinker, a native of Mahaska County, Iowa, and graduate of Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, was an ordained minister in the Christian Church. […]
“The Rev. L.W. Klinker was an active orator on the Chautauqua Circuit of lectures around the United States. In 1913 he was promoted by the Jones Chautagua [
sic] System of Perry, Iowa for their Pioneer Circuit as the Silver Tongued Orator, a prominent speaker from the Pacific Coast. […]
“Upon arrival in California, Klinker joined a family business in the mining industry. In 1908 L.W. Klinker and his brother E.C. Klinker were owners of the Rawhide King Hill Mine in the now-defunct and legendary and historic ghost town of Rawhide, Nevada. […]
“[…] Klinker was the author of a novel, a fictional story centered around hydraulic gold mining, titled
Winning A Fortune. […]
“Klinker became a Los Angeles businessman in real estate development. He was president of his company, Security Title Company, and owner of the Klinker Building in downtown Los Angeles at First and Broadway Streets. The Klinker Building, originally known as the Tajo Building […].
“Klinker was married to Lydia Jane (Raver) […]. They had five children, three of whom survived him: artist Orpha Klinker, screenwriter Zeno Klinker, who was senior writer for ventriloquist and entertainer Edgar Bergen on The Charlie McCarthy Show, and 1927 champion gymnast in tumbling, Elza C. Klinker. A second wife, Nellie, survived Lewis. The couple traveled around the world, during which time Klinker wrote a treatise on the Pyramid of Giza, titled God's Witness in Egypt, self-published in 1935.”
Daughter Orpha Klinker’s name will ring a bell with many. She provided many illustrations for a book many of us have read, Boyle Workman’s
The City That Grew, as well as Ed Ainsworth's
Enchanted Pueblo.
A most interesting fellow: Minister, lecturer, mine-owner, novelist, real estate developer, writer of “a treatise on the Pyramid of Giza,” children variously artist, writer, and gymnast.
Somehow this all seems just so Angeleno!
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(And many thanks to
e_r for his appreciation of men's fashion.)