Gaylord Bros check-out machine at the Los Angeles Public Library, 1930
Gaylord Bros check-out machine at the Los Angeles Public Library, 1930
quiz time – guess the year
Drought refugees from Abilene, Texas, following the crops of California as migratory workers. Said the father: “The finest people in this world live in Texas but I just can’t seem […]
A hand colored black and white photo from my Aunt Ida’s Hollywood days
Tam Yuk-lan, the Great Star’s (a theater in San Francisco’s Chinatown) first bathing beauty seated on table, 1920s
Mary Matlick, age 5, and Janet Matlick, age 3, in 1923, in the orchards that were once across the street from the Matlick House when it was still the home […]
1923 photo on the porch of Samuel Matlick’s farm, in Bishop, California. The two girls are Janet Matlick Stephens, age 3, and her sister, Mary Matlick Bowen, age 5. They […]
The Wilson children, Corning, California, July 4th, 1926
eight chorus girls in a chorus line, perhaps in San Francisco in the late 1930s
Roz and Mae, West Adams, Los Angeles, 1920s