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At the mouth of the canyon is the Old Mill of the San Gabriel Mission, which surely not new to NLA (though I found little reference). This view is looking E and shows Wilson's Lake, so named as it was part of B.D.Wilson's Lake Vineyard ranch. https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4365/...bf932781_b.jpg PDHC For a time the Mill was used as the caddy shack for the Huntington Hotel. I believe about this era: https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4364/...8aef470a_b.jpg PDHC Couple more Pasadena Country Club pics https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4418/...e09505af_b.jpg PDHC https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4349/...b6a51215_b.jpg PDHC As near as I can tell the Clubhouse was in the area along Oak Grove Ave in San Marino. I was treated to a tour at what is now called Thornton Gardens, which is a property in that area acquired by the Huntington Library and transformed into, well, a Huntington estate. Here is the Myron Hunt mansion: https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4396/...b48f1386_b.jpg scb fancy chimney brickwork! https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4418/...853c7eeb_b.jpg scb the orchid house https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4345/...c48f42e8_b.jpg scb |
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https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4412/...cea128_b_d.jpg https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4345/...6d1b72_b_d.jpghttps://farm5.staticflickr.com/4345/...6d1b72_b_d.jpg Scotty's skateboard days.....San Marino. My home was about half mile south of this location. I drove these streets to work and college. |
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It was an unofficial cemetery as it was created for people who did not want to bury their dead in the Catholic cemetery, which in the early part of the city history was the only official option. The Jewish cemetery also existed at the site of the Naval Reserve center in Elysian Park, but of course, that cemetery was exclusive. At first the City Cemetery was rather undisturbed, but when development began on Fort Hill the cemetery reduced in size (without removal of many dead) and the new reduced boundaries were mapped and apportioned. |
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A&Z Nuts is still in business, and the wagon still remains. http://www.califaztlan.org/LANoirPics/nutWagon.jpg |
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https://s26.postimg.org/5u7lnra61/tamale.jpg Los Angeles Times, July 25, 1906, via ProQuest via CSULB Library. About the "Cornucopia," could it be a tamale filled with . . . corn? |
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"Who was more familiar both to the youth of the town and to grown-ups than Nicolas Martinez, in summer the purveyor of cooling ice cream, in winter the vender of hot tamales! From morning till night, month in and month out during the sixties and seventies, Martinez paced the streets, his dark skin made still swarthier in contrast to his white costume a shirt, scarcely tidy, together with pantaloons none too symmetrical and hanging down in generous folds at the waist. On his head, in true native fashion, he balanced in a small hooped tub what he had for sale; he spoke with a pronounced Latin accent, and his favorite method of announcing his presence was to bawl out his wares. The same receptacle, resting upon a round board with an opening to ease the load and covered with a bunch of cloths, served both to keep the tamales hot and the ice cream cool ; while to dispense the latter, he carried in one hand a circular iron tray, in which were holes to accommodate three or four glasses. Further, for the convenience of the exacting youth of the town, he added a spoon to each cream-filled glass ; and what stray speck of the ice was left on the spoon after the youngster had given it a parting lick, Nicolas, bawling anew to attract the next customer, fastidiously removed with his tobacco-stained fingers." |
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From what I read, the tamales were served in Los Angeles area school cafeterias in the 1950s and 60s. (hence the nostalgic adoration) I'm curious..do any of you NLAers that grew up in the Los Angeles area remember them? http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/640...924/gMYV7D.jpg ocweekly __ here's a nifty pic. In this photograph of Phillipe's you'll notice a metal steamer of XNLT tamales on the counter. (at least I think it's a steamer) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/YsNcKT.jpg afcaforum __ |
626 Stevens Place and the Tamale Factory
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This pic isn't nearly as clear, but it show the opposite side (around 1890s) http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...924/XfoEzZ.jpg https://calisphere.org/item/917bec8e...974d9483cb552/ Quote:
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While their sodium content makes them as a practical matter off-limits to me nowadays, I ate them quite frequently as a boy. They are made of a smooth, dense chili encased in masa. They are junk food, but they are tasty. I recall that when I was a boy, they were so cheap that I could afford them easily on my modest allowance. Then, when the hyper-inflation of the Seventies first hit, they seemed to double or triple in price overnight. |
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Best tamales are made of meat that you can see and identify with your eyes. |
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1937 Invasion Map
This thing is amazing.
I immediately noticed how the map pointed out Dutch Harbor in the Aleutians as a target. I learned this year (through the male soap opera (i mean reality show) I watch, "Deadliest Catch") that the Japanese did occupy the base there for a time. I had no idea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dutch_Harbor Quote:
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Here is another 'invasion' map written in Japanese. [1941]
David Rumsey Map Collection I would like someone to translate what is written beneath the large battleship just off the California coast. _ |
The general shape of the Pacific War was predicted in 1925 by a British journalist (and probable spook) named Hector Bywater:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector_Charles_Bywater I have copies of both his "The Great Pacific War" and William Honan's biography of him, "Visions of Infamy." As Honan shows, it turns out that if you have a copy of "Jane's Fighting Ships" for that period and plot steaming ranges, etc. on a chart of the Pacific, there are relatively few ways that events could unfold. Cheers, Earl |
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I thought I might have found it's location this afternoon. Original 1887 Sierra Madre City Library on Central Ave, renamed Sierra Madre Blvd in 1936. -this was also the Sierra Madre Congregational Church temporary meeting place in 1889." http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/102...923/6wNe1L.jpg http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Old_North...re,_California) :( Close but no Cigar. _ |
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