L.A. Family Photos 3

   

I've been calling this the L.A. Family Photo collection because I've got photos from Topanga Canyon and Los Angles itself.  White Oak Lodge, very likely from Tehachapi, a not very long drive from L.A., and now, the top photo in the column labeled "Camp 7 Yosemite."  Again, California, though a lot farther north.  But we also have the bottom photo in the column labeled "Toledo, Ohio."  Interesting two dates, May 1929, and June 1930.  Somewhat between those two dates is September 4, 1929, and the beginning of the great depression.  Were Ralph and Joy visitors to California who lived full time in Toledo, or were they making a visit to see family back home in Ohio?  I bought these photos in an L.A. area antique store, so I'd say that somehow or another, Ralph and Joy ended up as Californians.  

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L.A. Family Photos 2

 

Each one of these three photos is labeled "White Oak Lodge."  The top photo is also labeled "Paul, Clara, Joy, Ralph."  Needless to say, there are a lot of White Oak Lodges, Oak Lodges, and variations thereof in the United States.  I'm going with the one in Tehachapi, Kern County, just north Of Los Angeles.  For those who were wondering, the white "1929" on the front of the prints was made by writing it on the negative with a dark ink.  Click on LA Family Collection in labels to bring everything up. 

L.A. Family Photos 1

 

Not a very interesting start to this very brief, three-part series.  Written on the back of the top photo, "Topanga Canyon snap from speeding 35 miles per hr. Nov. 4, 1923."  I don't often drive in Topanga Canyon, but 35 miles an hour is no longer speeding.  Actually, it's a good way to have other drivers riding your tail, beeping their horns, and flashing their lights. 

The second photo, "Z.R. 3 going over L.A. St."  The ZR-3, named the Los Angles was a dirigible built by The Zepplin Company in Germany for the U.S. Navy.  Under the Treaty of Versailles, Germany was supposed to turn over its Zepplin fleet to the U.S. as war reparations, but their crews sabotaged them to the point where they weren't reparable, so new ones had to be made.  The Los Angeles was manufactured from 1923-24 and decommissioned in 1932, so the photo was taken sometime between 1924 and 32.  I'm sure if I had the time I could actually find out when the ZR-3 was over its namesake city, but I think I'm going to pass on that.  As far as L.A. Street, there is a Los Angles Street, though it could be an L.A. Street, generic.  The building front advertises Heider Tractors, a company headquartered in Iowa that was in business from 1903 to 1983 when they were sold to Wellbuilt, another Iowa business.  

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