W. Parker Lyon leans over the wishing well at the Pony Express Museum, Arcadia, 1939

Title: W. Parker Lyon leans over the wishing well at the Pony Express Museum, Arcadia, 1939
Date Created: January 1939
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Mr. Lyon leans over one side of the wishing well peering into a bucket attached to a rope. It is a large wooden structure that is several feet taller than him and displays a sign that says "TOSSING A COIN OVER LEFT SHOULDER INTO WELL WILL MAKE A WISH COME TRUE MABE".
Whoever it was that decided to rob the wishing well at the Pony Express Museum didn't receive much for their efforts of jumping into a well that is eight feet deep other than a few pennies, three nickels, one shiny prayer token and a set of false teeth.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Wishing Well Raider Gets False Teeth, Coins and Bath," Los Angeles Times, 07 Jan 1939: 8.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: 12999 - W. Parker Lyon Lyon owner, Pony Express Museum Museum wishing well robbed [stamped:] Jan 23 1939

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Subjects: Wishing wells--California--Arcadia
Signs (Notices)
Robberies--California--Arcadia
Names: Pony Express Museum
Lyon, W. Parker
Location: Arcadia (Calif.)
Resource type: still image

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier: uclamss_1429_11671
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002h8g99
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Rights Country: US
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Funding Note: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
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