Category: Los Angeles County
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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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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…