1880 (1875) (1882) (1870-1880) (1880-1890) Table of Contents
Sources
James W. Lunsford The Ocean and the Sunset, The Hills and the Clouds: Looking at Santa Monica, illustrated by Alice N. Lunsford, 1983, 1943, 1942, 1941, 1940, 1933, 1921, 1913, 1912, 1880
Grant H. Smith The History of the Comstock Lode 1850-1920, Geology and Mining Series No. 37, University of Nevada Bulletin: Reno, Nevada, vol. XXXVII. 1 July 1943, no. 3, (revised 1966), Ninth printing, 1980. 305pp., 1880, See Note See Text
Les Storrs Santa Monica Portrait of a City Yesterday and Today, Santa Monica Bank: Santa Monica, CA, 1974, 67 pp., 1880 See Text
Betty Lou Young Our First Century: The Los Angeles Athletic Club 1880-1980, LAAC Press: Los Angeles, California 1979, 176pp., 1880, 1880s See Text
Notes
[p. 243] "After the first few years the number of foreign-born miners [on the Comstock] increased steadily. Lord (pp. 383, 384) gives statistics for the year 1880: 1,996 miners, of whom 394 were Americans, 691 Irish, 543 English, 132 Canadians, and the rest from everywhere. The average age was 35, average weight 165 pounds, average height 5 feet 9 inches. The majority were married." -Smith, 1943
"The 1880 census showed a population of only 417, and this included the entire township of La Ballona, now Ocean Park and Venice." Storrs, 1974, p. 287, 1908a
Documents
Harry Carr Los Angeles City of Dreams (Illustrated by E.H. Suydam), D. Appleton-Century Co.: NY, 1935, 402 pp.
Chapter XXVII The Athens of America
"The University of Southern California was an inspiration of two brothers-Robert M. Widney and Dr. Joseph P. Widney. The first named was one of the early gringo judges and built the first street-car line.
"The land upon which St. Vincent's was located at Sixth and Broadway was the gift of a Protestant-O.W. Childs, who also built th first real theater of the pueblo. The land for the University of Southern California (although it was a Methodist college) was given by a Jew, a Catholic and again O.W. Chillds. The donors were Isaias W. Hellman, a pioneer Jewish banker, Ex-Governor John G. Downey, a Catholic, and Childs, a Protestant. The university if still on the land they gave.
"The corner-stone was laid on September 4, 1880, the ninety-ninth anniversary of the founding of the pueblo. Its [p. 377] first president was Marion McKinley Bovard, a young graduate of De Pauw, who had come west to do missionary work among the Indian. Today it has sixteen colleges, not to speak of a football team of mighty prowess. The earnings from this prize-winning team have been so huge that the team not only supports the other athletic but has built a very handsome Student's Hall. E.L. Doheny supplied the money for a building that houses the work of the specialists in archeology-especially of the Mesopotamian period. With Dr. Rufus B. Von KleinSmid as president, this univeristy has done notable work in the field of international friednship and understanding. Dr. Von KleinSmid has been the recipient of more foreigh decorations than perhaps any other American.
Ingersoll's Century History Santa Monica Bay Cities (Being Book Number Two of Ingersoll's Century Series of California Local History Annals), 1908, 1908a, 1880
[p. 269] Chapter VII. Public Institutions: Schools; Post Offices
[p. 269] School Trustees of Santa Monica
[p. 270] Supervising Principals of Santa Monica Schools:
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[p. 282] PostOffice
. . . [p. 282] In 1880, M.B. Boyce was appointed postmaster and held office until 1886 . . .
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[p. 326, Abbot Kinney, 1908b]
[p. 327] Chapter XI Venice of America and Its Founder
Abbot Kinney [1850-1920] was born in Brookside, N.J., November 16, 1850, his parents being Franklin Sherwood and Mary Cogswell Kinney, both descendents of old colonial families. His boyhood was mostly passed in Washington where his uncle, James Dixon, represented the state of Connecticut in the United States Senate. Here the young man had advatntages of education and of contact with many of the prominent men of that time and thus retains memories of the men who made the history of that period. To complete his education, he went to Europe and studied at Heidelberg, Germany, and in France and Switzerland, perfecting himself in foreign languages and making a special study of political, economic and social problems.
On returning to Washington, he became interested in the tobacco business and after a couple of years practical experience, he decided to go to Turkey and make a personal study of their methods of manufacturing cigarettes. In 1877, he started on a three years' tour of the world, one year of which was passed in Egypt. His keen powers of observation and active intellect were devoted during these years to the study of the conditions as he found them in various countries, and the conclusions thus acquired have since been applied in many ways to the problems presented in our own country.
He reached San Francisco, on his return voyage, in the winter of 1880, and finding himself unable to proceed directly east on account of heavy snow blockades in the Sierras, he came to Southern California. Here, afte a few weeks spent in the old Sierra Madre Villa, he felt that he had found the climate for which he had sought the world over. He secured a large tract of unimproved land in the vicinity of Sierra Madre and at once set about creating a beautiful and profit-yielding home out of what had been a waste. He planted out a large citrus orchard and turned his mind to the solution of the many difficulties which seemed almost insurmountable to the pioneer horticulturists of this region. As a result, "Kinneola" became a fine example of the possibilities of citrus culture and is known as one of the most beautiful country homes in California.
Broad-minded and public-spirited, he devoted the knowledge gained through investigation and costly experiments to the public use and became one of the projectors of the Southern California Pomological Society and served as its president.
James W. Lunsford The Ocean and the Sunset, The Hills and the Clouds: Looking at Santa Monica, illustrated by Alice N. Lunsford, 1983, 1943, 1942, 1941, 1940, 1933, 1921, 1913, 1912, 1880
Santa Monica Pier-Arcadia Terrace
Grant H. Smith The History of the Comstock Lode 1850-1920, Geology and Mining Series No. 37, University of Nevada Bulletin: Reno, Nevada, vol. XXXVII. 1 July 1943, no. 3, (revised 1966), Ninth printing, 1980. 305pp., 1880
[p. 249] Chapter XXV Fire in the Stopes-Low-Grade Operations in the Bonanza Mines-The Comstock Milling Monopoly-The Last Washoe Process Mill-Losses in Tailings-Tailings Reworked
[p. 256] Losses in Tailings and Quicksilver
"The Comstock mines produced a little over $300,000,000 from 1859 to 1880, excluding returns from tailings, and it has been said repeatedly that an additional $100,000,000, or 25 percent, escaped in the tailings and were irretrievably lost. But that estimate appears to be excessive.
"The total loss up to 1880 is estimated at $70,000,000, and could not have exceeded $75,000,000. The total amount recovered from [p. 257] tailings saved up to that time is estimated at $23,000,000, including some that were reworked later. Hague, in 1870, estimated the average recovery from tailings as $5.50 a ton. Until the cyanide process was introduced the millmen did not expect to recover more than 50 to 60 percent of the values of the "tailings," or sands and the slimes. Some rich tailings were reworked twice, or even a third time after cyanide came into use.
Les Storrs Santa Monica Portrait of a City Yesterday and Today, Santa Monica Bank: Santa Monica, CA, 1974, 67 pp., 1880
"By 1880, . . . in a deep depression. The 1880 census showed a population of only 417, and this included the entire township of La Ballona, now Ocean Park and Venice. The bottom fell out of property values. . . .
"Residents blamed the Southern Pacific, and the Outlook led the way . . .
Betty Lou Young Our First Century: The Los Angeles Athletic Club 1880-1980, LAAC Press: Los Angeles, California 1979, 176pp., 1880, 1880s
" . . . By 1880 . . . in the fall, the circus came to town as it had each year since the 1840s . . . "Frank Gardner's famous double somersault over 3 elephants and 9 camels."
Page 15: Poster for W.W. Cole's Circus The Only Electric-Lighted Sun-Eclipsing Big Show That Ever Crossed the Great Divide "Cheer after cheer rent the air at each surprising feature." Nashville American. The Grandest and Best Circus Ever in California at Los Angeles Wedn'sday Sept. 15. Reproducing and Reflecting All Earth's Grandest Marvels! Under the resplendent glare of the Brush Dynamo Electric Light, used exclusively with W.W. Cole's Great Concorpation of Circus, Menagerie, Aquarium, and Congress of Living Wonders. "The best trained horse in the world"-Quincy Daily Herald The Only Show that Faithfully Keeps its Word. "A better show never existed."-Lincoln Daily Journal.
2. "The Best Young Men": The Arcadia Block
(Sept., 1880) Fifty-three original members formed "a purely American", as opposed to a Germanic, Los Angeles Athletic Club, renting Stearns Hall, on the second floor of the old Arcadia Block at the corner of Los Angeles and Arcadia Streets, built in 1858 by Don Abel Stearns and named in honor of his wife, Doña Arcadia Bandini. . . . "In recent years the rooms had been used for dancing classes and as a skating rink, while the ground floor was occupied by the firm of "Harris Newmark and Co., Wholesale Grocers and Liquor Merchants." Across Los Angeles St. from the Calle de los Negros. The three-story Baker Block, immediately to the rear, contained shops, offices and the . . . apartments of Arcadia Bandini de Baker herself. . . . By November the club had installed a trapeze, long horse, flying rings, parallel bars, dumbbells and Indian clubs, and turnverein trained teachers were teaching the beginners. Boxing was introduced.
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"[Ed] A. Preuss [a charter member of the Turnverein, and an accomplished athlete, served as the LAAC gymnastics instructor] was co-owner of the Preuss and Peroni Drug Store . . . which advertised . . . nostrums, "the Lion Malaria and Liver Pad, with body and foot plasters and three remedies in one, and only one dollar for all." The shop included a soda fountain . . ."