Strip of lawn divided by a walkway with planting beds on either side. The beds contain rose standards and other flowers. The house, with a screened-in porch, is in the
Pond with boulders, with street, houses, and trees in background, grass in foreground, and statue on boulder at right, probably bronze, of standing man with head bent forward, holding tablet or book, wearing boots
Bettye K. Cree (Elizabeth Kirkpatrick Cree) was born March 24, 1879. She married Raymond Cree, a founder and developer of Palm Springs, but the marriage ended in divorce. Ms. Cree then maintained an art gallery in Palm Springs. She died in Pasadena on March 16, 1944.
The Giardini Botanici Hanbury (also known as La Mortola, or Hanbury Botanical Garden, or Villa Hanbury), on the cape of Mortola, are major botanical gardens operated by the University of Genoa. The gardens were founded by Sir Thomas Hanbury, a British entrepreneur, after he had made his fortune in China.
The inn was located at the intersection of the Pacific Coast Highway and Las Flores Canyon Road, just east of the guarded Rindge Ranch fence (which prevented westward development beyond Las Flores Canyon Road at this time).
Oil wells listed on the plan are: 1) Superior-Huffman, 2) Felix, 3) Milham, 4) C. C. friend, 5) "Veco," 6) Shell Williams, 7) J. J. Richie, 8) S. O. Co. Alferitz, 9) Lincoln Betty, 10) Scott Bros. Dr. Co., 11) Belridge, 12) So Co Mascol, 13) Temblor O. & D. Co., 14) Universal #49, 15) Shell-Porter Day, 16) Wilshire O. Co., 17) Mohawk-Weed Patch, 18) Shell-Semitropic, 19) Roy White
USC football coach Howard Jones (left) shakes hands with UCLA co-founder Ernest Carroll Moore while UCLA football coach William Spaulding (second from right) shakes hands with USC president Rufus B. von Kleinsmid.
An official and Salvation Army volunteers prepare a ribbon cutting ceremony to open the doors of Wilcox Cafeteria on Christmas. A number of homeless and people in need line up with meal tickets.
Legible business signs include: Bay Lumber Co. Venice, Auto Park, Craig's Market Meat Fruit Vegetables, Virginia Apts, Lee H. Young Ocean Park Public Market, Drugs, Lee H. Young Cash and Carry Grocery, Hardware, Bargain Shop, Crescent Apts. Rooms by Day Week or Month, The Minnesota Apts Rooms 1 2 and 3 Rooms Furnished, Kolbs Grocery Delicatessen, New & Used Clothing Cleaning Pressing, U.S. Shoe Renewing Carlson & Sons
Newspaper Clipping of an article by Herbert Donalson titled: 'Magic Flute' at The Shrine Has Great Beauty and Color'. The article is a review of a production of Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute" in English by the Guild Opera Company. The article praises highly Kay Marshall who played the role of Queen of the Night, Ken Remo as Tamino, and John Barnett, the conductor.
Text reads, in part: Looking Back 25 Years. ... Three days after the races the names of the winning car drivers were announced in the Outlook, when the prize money was paid to them. Durant was first and received $4000; Hearne, second, won $2500; Le Cocq, third, $1500, and Pullen, fourth, $1000. Durant's average speed was 81.88 miles an hour for the 250 miles of the course. That was considered, the paper said, a splendid record for the new course.
This appears to be a copy print photograph of a no trespassing sign. The sign is posted to a wood-framed, barbed wire gate. A large tree can be viewed beyond the barrier in the background. Sign reads: "Notis! tresspassers will B persecuted to the full extent of 2 mongrel dogs which neve was over sochible to strangers & 1 dubble brl shot gun which aint loded with sofa pillors. Dam if I aint gitten tired of this hell raisin on my place. B. Griscom." Caption on lower left edge of original photo: "8566943."