Author: jibjones
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“Custer’s Last Fight,” the 1912 movie.
A poor copy that is a bit difficult to watch, but many scenes were filmed in 1912 at Santa Ynez Canyon (Sunset & PCH), where the New York Motion Picture Company had a filming “Camp” . It became “Inceville” and later “Hartville,” before being subdivided for homes in the 1920s. Oh, for a perfect print…
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Why History?
There have been many ‘histories’ written about Los Angeles County over the last 250 years that have much truth in them. But far too many have been invented by publicists, especially those working for “Hollywood,” and also those working for land owners, real estate businesses and of course by municipal and state politicians during the…
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Pipe Smoking Backwoods Women
1849 Letter from Hugo Reid to Don Abel Stearn A paragraph in a letter from Hugo Reid in Northern California to Don Abel Stearn in Los Angeles, speaking of the “backwoods women” he met at the gold mines in 1849. “However, by post I will give you an idea of life in the mines and…
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The Los Angeles Examiner Building. John Martyn Haenke.
The New Los Angeles Examiner Building. 1913-14J. Martyn Haenke, Architect. Associated with Miss Julia Morgan. John Martyn Haenke was a prolific German-English-American architect. He was a member of the Burlingame Country Club and friends with the Hearst family. Julia Morgan was employed by the Hearst’s as assistant architect for the Examiner building. The initial building…