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All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon. Walter L. Gordon, Sr., is in the very back of the photo, and E. J. Porter is in the front. The woman and other two men in the photo are unidentified. Walter L. Gordon, Jr.: "My father took a succession of jobs, each job seemed to be better than the previous one. He first started a shoeshine parlor in Santa Monica, 1906. Then he ended up becoming a mounted postal carrier in Pasadena and also a letter carrier in South Pasadena. But he was a very young man when he started and he was in his 20s. To retire from the Post Office in those days you had to go to a certain age. He was still in his 20s and he'd been with them a gang of years. It was regarded as a good job because he was a mounted carrier, had to take care of his horse and all that. But he then went into the real estate business, and he also started peddling those papers I told you about. Along the way, he finally got himself an office at Adams and Central (Adams and Central would be 26th and Central). There's a lovely shack of a building there, and he moved in there. He's sitting in this old office back there, these in the 20s. And that's my father's original first office. That's him in the back.This man's name is E. J. Porter. E. J. Porter became a pretty well fixed guy, and this is their office originally. And that's the beginning." Handwritten note on photo: "My Dad, in rear."
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