Los Angeles via Hurricane, Utah 7

This is the last from this collection and it's a fitting end.  As I noted in the first post from this lot  these pictures from 1930s Los Angeles were found in Hurricane, Utah.  Now, photographs travel and I have no idea how this particular album page got from L.A. to Utah, a long way in the pre I-15 era.  However, this last row of images clearly are not from southern California.  The cold weather clothing is a dead giveaway.  A good guess, a family from Utah sent some photos to their family members who were trying their luck in Los Angeles. 

Click on LA Hurricane in labels at the bottom of the post to see both sides of the page.

Salty

Remember Michael Jackson?  No, not that Michael Jackson.  Michael Jackson the liberal, radio talk show host who spent years on KABC radio in Los Angeles.  Anyway, Jackson would often say that the art of talk radio was to sound unnaturally natural.  Well, that's the aim of hand tinted photographs.  On one hand, the only people who have skin tones like the lady above are in caskets.  On the other, this is one of the better tint jobs I've seen, and I'm sure that the lady was well pleased with the final result.

Stamped on the back, "When ordering ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHS please give the number appearing on this photograph. PHOTOGRAPH STUDIO AUERBACH'S SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH."  I did a little digging.  Auerbach's was a department store, no longer in business, at the corner of State St. and 300 South in Salt Lake City.  I found a store directory from the 1950s.  A photo studio wasn't listed, but the camera department was on the street floor.  When I was growing up, every Sears and J.C. Penny had a photo studio.  No appointment necessary, just drop in with the kids while shopping for school clothes.  Do department stores still have portrait photographers on staff?

Back to Michael Jackson.  When the other Michael died, access to his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was blocked  by a movie premier, so the fans left their tributes at the star of the still living talk show host.  

Frontier Day, Cheyenne, Wyoming, and the Bunch

I almost forgot I had this one.  It's been sitting in my files for at least six months, probably longer.  The fact is I put up lots of postcards, printed in ink and clearly not photographs, on this blog.  But, I do try and limit them to ones that I have a reasonable belief were originally photographs.  To make a long story short, I've gone  back and forth on this one.  Did this image start life as a photograph, or is it pure illustration.  In the end, the detail in the viewing stands, the clear separation of people in the crowd, an unnecessary bit of work that most commercial illustrators wouldn't have bothered with, tipped me towards photograph.

This card was mailed.  It was addressed to "Frank A. Brewer, 165 Nebraska St., Painesville, O."  The message, "3-22-13  Bro. Frank, We are having a fine trip.  Spent about 2 hrs in Cheyenne yesterday and went to the state capitol.  Saw a cowboy.  Will be in Ogden in a few minutes.  The Bunch"  The postmark is too faded to read.

Printed by The H. H. Tammen and Curio Company of Denver, Colorado.  They were in business from 1896 to 1953.

For more postcards from the well traveled Brewer family, click Brewer in the labels section.