Typewritten description of photographs of Will Rogers lighthouse building and Mary Virginia McCormick residence, Pacific Palisades, 1930

Item Overview

Title

Typewritten description of photographs of Will Rogers lighthouse building and Mary Virginia McCormick residence, Pacific Palisades, 1930

Creator

Bartlett, Adelbert, $d 1887-1966

Date Created

1930

Date

1930

Language

English

Collection

Adelbert Bartlett Papers, 1922-1950

Notes

Description

Text reads in part: Adelbert Bartlett, 535 15th Street, Santa Monica. 281R1694, 287R1694, 286R1694, 285R1694, 284R1694. NOTE: See copies of newspaper stories attached in re McCormick family member of which is Will Roger's next door neighbor in story below -- Will Rogers private beach and "lighthouse" bathouse, cafe, soft drink and hot dog stand, below Huntington Palisades, Santa Monica (Los Angeles beach), California, will shortly pass into ownership of the County of Los Angeles, if plans of supervisors in their effort to acquire more privately owned beach lands for public use go through ... Will's beach has been free to all comers. ... Will has for immediate neighbors Miss Virginia McCormick and her large staff ... on the choicest building plot ... relatives all multimillionaire heirs of the McCormick harvester millions. (see negatives enclosed) The McCormick estate stands high and secluded ... tightly-locked gates ... Will Roger's open-handedness in making the public at home on his beach near-by is in striking contrast with the McCormick situation mentioned above.

Caption

Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 926 927 Huntington Palisades, 1930, 448, 14, See story. Photo by Adelbert Bartlett, 535 15th Street, Santa Monica, Calif. Activities on Will Rogers beach in front of his "lighthouse" cafe and soft drink stand, which is below $2,000,000 estate of Miss Virginia McCormick on the Intl. harvester millions (on point above) See negs of house proper. One view shows Los Angeles city life guard launching boatload of co-eds assisted by their "eds" [Struck out: 287R1694]

Physical Description

Extent

2 p.

Keywords

Genre

typescripts

Names

Mary Virginia McCormick residence (Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Beaches--California--Pacific Palisades
Will Rogers State Beach (Los Angeles, Calif.)