1909 (1908)(1908a)(1910)(1900-1910)(1910-1920) Table of Contents
236-An Avenue of Palms, California Post Card Edward H. Mitchell, Publisher, San Francisco, KR, 1909 See Image and Text
Anon. Ocean Park and Venice Timeline (1890-1909), Web Document, 2005b, 1909 See Text
Donald M. Cleland A History of the Santa Monica Schools 1876-1951, Santa Monica Unified School District, February 1952 (Copied for the Santa Monica Library, July 22, 1963). 140 pp., 1909 See Text
1520-General View of Highland, California, 1909 See Image and Text
Grape Fruit, 1909 See Image and Text
Valencia Hotel Where 70 Lives were Lost, San Francisco, Earthquake, 1909 See Image and Text
Official Portola Festival Postcard, 1909 See Images and Text
Frank McGarry*'s Candy Store and Band Plaza, located in Ocean Park between Pier Avenue and Marine Streets. Band Director of the Lincoln Park Band is Frank Gregory, 1909 See Image and Text
1909 California Birthdays, an anthology of quotes and poems, Benjamin Fay Mills 1909 See Text
Ocean Park Band Stand, 1910s See Image
A Cluster of Oranges, 1909 See Image and Text
Santa Monica Planning
Division Santa Monica Landmarks Tour,
2003.
33. Santa Monica Pier
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Text
The James D. Schuyler* Papers, SCHU, Water Resources Center Archives, University of California, Berkeley, 1961, 1909, See Text
Les Storrs* Santa Monica Portrait of a City Yesterday and Today, Santa Monica Bank: Santa Monica, CA, 1974, 67 pp., 1909 See Text
2602 Third Street, Craftsman bungalow built 1909 by A.B. Matteson*. (Third Street District). 1999, 1983, 1982, 1909 See Image and Text
2616-2618 Third Street Craftsman residence built 1909 by A. Wilmot*. (Third Street District) 1999, 1983, 1982, 1909 See Image and Text
2814 Third Street, Craftsman style residence built 1909. (Third Street Historic District), 1999, 1992, 1909 See Image and Text
Notes
Anon. Ocean Park and Venice Timeline (1890-1909), Web Document, 2005b, 1909
Documents
236-An Avenue of Palms, California Post Card Edward H. Mitchell, Publisher, San Francisco, KR, 1909
236-An Avenue of Palms, California Post Card Edward H. Mitchell, Publisher, San Francisco, KR, 1909
Printed in the United States This space for correspondence This space for address. Franked with a green Franklin One Cent, Cancelled Whittier Oct 16 12 M Cal 1909. Addressed to Mrs James Browder, Chicago, Ill. Forest Glen Sta. "Dear Folks how are you all any way and why don't you write, We are all about [sick] Post Office Box 136 Whittier Calif Regards to all.
Donald M. Cleland A History of the Santa Monica Schools 1876-1951, Santa Monica Unified School District, February 1952 (Copied for the Santa Monica Library, July 22, 1963). 140 pp., 1909
Special Services
Many special services have been introduced in the Santa Monica schools during the years, some of the earlier ones being these: [46: Martin, op. cit., p. 60.]
1909 A.W. Sherman appointed part-time Attendance Officer.
1520-General View of Highlands, California, 1909
1520 General View of Highlands, California
(Edward H. Mitchell, Publisher, San Francisco.) Franked with the green Ben Franklin One Cent. Postmarked Los Angeles Aug. 30 7:30 pm 1909. Addressed to Rex Roberts 297 So. Jefferson St. Grand Rapids Mich.
"How does this look Rex for a country to live in? This doesn't exaggerate in the least amount. You would like the climate." Uncle Alva
Grape Fruit, Cancelled Los Angeles, 3 pm Sep. 2, 1909. (Published by the Banham Co., Los Angeles, Cal.) Addressed to Mr. Rex Roberts, 297 So. Jefferson St,, Grand Rapids, Mich. "Trees loaded like this are a common sight-Grapefruit here doesn't taste as it does East. It hasn't that acrid pungent taste." Uncle Alva
Valencia Hotel Where 70 Lives were Lost, San Francisco, Earthquake, 1909
Valencia Hotel Where 70 Lives were Lost, San Francisco, Earthquake, Postmarked San Francisco, Cal. Sep. 10, 1909, 10? pm. (Published by Rosin and Co. Phil & New York Made in Germany No. 865)
Addressed to M. Rex Roberts, 297 So. Jefferson St., Grand Rapids, Mich. 9/10/09 Dear Rex:- (Four) holidays this week here-Two Sundays, "Labor day" and "Admission Day"- Labor day 55,000 in parade. "Admission Day" a work horse ( . . . ) with 2500 work horses all from wholesale ( . . . )-1,000 every one. Parade 2 hours in passing. Uncle Alva
Official Portola Festival Postcard, 1909
No. 9011 (Official) Post Card (Portola Festival), 1909
Addressed to Mr. Rex Roberts, Rural Route 5, Grand Rapids, Mich. Postmarked San Francisco Oct. 18, 1909, 5:30 pm. (Britton & Rey, Lithographers, S.F., Publishers of Pictoral Post Cards; No. 9011 A view of Chinatown showing the most typical section of the Oriental quarter. Copyright 1909 by Portola Executive Committee.)
"Leave for Los Angeles Thursday. Going by steamer on ocean"-Uncle Alva.
Robert Gottlieb and Irene Wolt* Thinking Big: The Story of the Los Angeles Times, Its Publishers and Their Influence on Southern California, G.P. Putnam's Sons: NY, 1977. 603 pp.
"San Francisco Special Prosecutor Hiram Johnson, a leader of the state's progresssive movement [1909] . . . duiring a mass meeting in Los Angeles's Simpson Auditorium, [in a response to a question about General Otis of the Los Angeles Times]:
"In the city from which I have come, we have drunk to the very dregs the cup of infamy; we have had vile officials; we have had rotten newspapers; we have had men who sold their birthright; we have dipped into every infamy; every form of wickedness has been ours in the past; every debased passion and every sin has flourished. But we have nothing so vile, nothing so low, nothing so debased, nothing so infamous in San Francisco, nor did we ever have, as Harrison Gray Otis . . .
"He sits there in senile dementia, with gangrened heart and rotting brain, grimacing at every reform, chattering impotently at all things that are decent, frothing, fuming, violently gibbering, going down to his grave in snarling infamy. This man Otis is the one blot on the banner of Southern California; he is the bar sinister upon your escutcheon. My friends, he is the one thing that all California looks at, when, in looking at Southern California, they see anything that is disgraceful, depraved, corrupt, crooked and putrescent-that is Harrison Gray Otis." p. 79
Esther McCoy Irving Gill 1870-1936 Five California Architects, 1960, Reprinted in Marvin Rand Irving J. Gill: Architect 1870-1936, Gibbs Smith, Publisher: Salt Lake City, UT, Design, Ahde Lahti; Photographs, Marvin Rand, 2006, 238 pp. pp. 219-227, 2006a, 1916, 1910, 1909, 1897,
"Before the [Holly Sefton Memorial Hospital for Children, San Diego] hospital and the Scripps building there had been evidences of Gill's initial gropings in architecture; now he had arrived at what was dominant. In . . . 1909, he used monolithic construction in three buildings-a Christian Science Church, Scripps Hall at Bishop's School in La Jolla, and Bishop's Day School in San Diego.
"At the same time Adolf Loos, in Vienna, was preoccupied with similar matters. [Since 1897, Adolf Loos] he had begun a crusade to strip ornament from buildings. In a series of newspaper articles he called down moral judgements on the Secessionists, a group of Viennese architects who had broken with the Baroque tradition but continued to use ornament. However, it is unlikely that these articles reached Gill in the small town of San Diego, although he may have heard rumors of Loos' crusade. While he was with Sullivan, Gill had learned the way the wind was blowing; he was aware of the work of Otto Wagner in Vienna, and Charles Rennie MacKintosh in Glasgow.
Frank
McGarry'*s Candy Store and Band Plaza, located in Ocean Park
between Pier Avenue and Marine Streets. Band Director of the Lincoln
Park Band is Frank Gregory, 1909 - B. W. Mc Garry
Subject: Frank Gregory Subject: Frank
McGarry Subject: Marine Street Subject: Ocean Park Subject: Pier
Avenue Subject: Bands Subject: Candy stores
Credit line: Santa Monica Public Library Image Archives/ Source:
donated to the Library Date: 1909 Image number: F69
1909 California Birthdays, an anthology of quotes and poems, Benjamin Fay Mills 1909
Contributors include:
Benjamin Fay Mills, b. Rahway, N.J., June 4, 1857. Evangelical Minister, 1878-1897. Liberal Minister, lecturer, writer and social reformer, 1897. Founded The Fellowship, representing "Religion Without Superstition," 1904. Lived in California 1875-6, 1899&emdash;. Author: God's World. The Divine Adventure. Twentieth Century Religion. The New Revelation. Editor Fellowship Magazine. Address: Los Angeles. Calif.
A Cluster of Oranges, Published by the Benham Company, Los Angeles, Ca., Made in America, Postmarked 1909.
Addressed to Mr. Rex Roberts, Rural Route 5, Grand Rapids, Mich. Postmarked Los Angeles, Cal. Dec. 22, 1909, 9 pm. Dear Rex:-Crack the nuts and hug the stove on Xmas, while I eat oranges and pick flowers and wish you a most happy day. Uncle Alva
"The Pier is California's oldest pleasure pier and has the only amusement park on a pier on the west coast. It was originally two separately owned, adjacent piers: the Municipal Pier built in 1909, and the Pleasure Pier, built in 1916 by Charles Looff. Looff said he chose this location because Santa Monica beach "is well-known as one of the finest on the Pacific Coast, it attracts the highest class of people, and transportation facilities are unequaled." Looff was a pioneer amusement entrepreneur who had built Coney Island's first carousel in Brooklyn, New York. In 1909, Looff moved his operation to Long Beach, after realizing the potential for amusement parks along the Southern Californian coastline.
"While the Municipal Pier was for strolling and fishing, Looff constructed amusement and food establishments on the Pleasure Pier, including the exotic Hippodrome building to house the Pier's carousel. Looff sold the Pleasure Pier in 1924 to a corporation which lengthened it that year and built the famed La Monica Ballroom, which soon became home of some of the earliest national radio and television broadcasts. Although the ballroom was demolished in 1963, in its heyday the massive structure could accomodate as many as 10,000 people.
"In 1953, the City took over the Pleasure Pier and leased it to a private operator. Since the 1970s, the Piers have been known collectively as the Santa Monica Pier. The entire Pier was named a County Historical Landmark in 1975. After the 1983 storms that destroyed the west end of the Santa Monica Pier, the structure of the Pier was strengthened."
"The Santa Monica Pier was originally two separately owned, adjacent piers: the Municipal Pier built in 1909, and the Pleasure Pier, built in 1916 by Charles I.D. Loof and privately owned. While the Municipal Pier was for strolling and fishing, Loof constructed amusement and food establishments on the Pleasure Pier, including the exotic Hippodrome building to house the Pier's carousel. Loof sold the Pleasure Pier in 1924 to a corporation which lengthened it that year and built the famed La Monica Ballroom. Although the ballroom was demolished in 1963, in its hey (sic) day the massive structure could accommodate as many as 10,000 people. The City has owned both Piers since the 1950's and, in 1970, assumed direct management. Since the 1970's the Piers have been known collectively as the Santa Monica Pier.
"The Hippodrome has housed three carousels over the years. The first carousel, installed by Loof, remained until 1939, when it was replaced by a carousel that had previously been located at the old Pacific Ocean Park Pier. The current carousel was built by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company in 1922 and was moved from Nashville, Tennessee to the Santa Monica Pier in 1947. The Hippodrome building was designated a National Historica Landmark in 1988. In addition, the entire Pier was named a County Historical Landmark in 1975.
"Other buildings of interest on the Pier include the Billiard Building, constructed on the the Pier in 1923, and the building know today as Sinbad's, originally constructed next to the Billiard Building in the early 1920s. The building remained there until 1929, when it was moved to its present location, adjacent to the site of the La Monica Ballroom. It served as the home of the La Monica Dancing Company and Hoyt's Chesapeake Cafe until the use changed in 1955 to "Sinbad's" restaurant."
The James D. Schuyler* Papers, SCHU, Water Resources Center Archives, University of California, Berkeley, 1961, 1909
Les Storrs Santa Monica Portrait of a City Yesterday and Today, Santa Monica Bank: Santa Monica, CA, 1974, 67 pp., 1909
"Unfortunately, this [the outfall, which was near Pier Avenue] was destroyed by a storm [1905?], and many problems ensued, so that the outfall ultimately was located under the present site of the Municipal Pier, at the foot of Colorado Avenue. This was the case from 1909 until the city of Santa Monica joined the city of Los Angeles in funding the Hyperion plant, now in use [1974].
2602 Third Street (Third Street District).Craftsman bungalow built 1909 by A.B. Matteson*. Photographed 1982-83 for the City of Santa Monica Historic Resources Inventory, 1999, 1983, 1982, 1909
http://www.smpl.org/archive/0246/IMG0026.JPG
2616-2618 Third Street (Third Street District) Craftsman residence built 1909 by A. Wilmot*. Photographed 1982-83 for the City of Santa Monica Historic Resources Inventory, 1999, 1983, 1982, 1909
http://www.smpl.org/archive/0246/IMG0028.JPG
2814 Third Street, Craftsman style residence built 1909. (Third Street Historic District). Photographed in 1992 for the City of Santa Monica Historic Resources Inventory by Leslie Heumann & Associates, 1999, 1992, 1909
http://www.smpl.org/archive/0246/IMG0035.JPG
