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I don’t post much on the 1920s (so many stories, only one Larry Harnisch) but I stumbled across this feature page when looking for something else and found several interesting pieces. The first is a long interview with Joseph M. Abrams, vice president and general manager of a tour bus line, who says the most popular sightseeing spots are:
1) Mary Pickford's house
2) Rudolph Valentino's house
3) Charlie Chaplin's house
4) Gloria Swanson's house
5) Will Rogers' house
6) Pauline Frederick's house
7) Milton Sills' house
8) Jackie Coogan's house
9) Tommy Meighan's house
10) William Desmond's house
11) William S. Hart's house
12) Eugene O'Brien's house
13) Pola Negri's house
14) Lois Wilson's house
15) J. Warren Kerrigan's house
16) The house on Dayton Avenue where Jim Jeffries was born. [Note: The home was at Dayton and Cypress Avenues, presumably 535 Cypress, according to the 1909 city directory, available online from the Los Angeles Public Library. A subtle reminder to budget-slashing civic leaders who think librarians only reshelve books. And yes, Jeffries’ father was a minister.]
“Most of the reservations for sightseeing trips about Los Angeles are made by the women. They constitute 80% of our patrons. Men want to go to the baseball game or to a prizefight or to the beach, where the bathing girls are. When they go to view the city they usually are hauled along by their wives,” Abrams says.
Then there’s a piece on old and vanished buildings of Los Angeles and the unusual home of “occultist” Ben Hansen (no address, alas). It is built entirely of eucalyptus and decorated with Egyptian/Assyrian/Persian/Aztec symbols. With a couple of Buddhas tastefully thrown in.
ALSO
Jim Jeffries and the “Fight of the Century”
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