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W. Parker Lyon leans over the wishing well at the Pony Express Museum, Arcadia, 1939

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Title: W. Parker Lyon leans over the wishing well at the Pony Express Museum, Arcadia, 1939
Date Created and/or Issued: January 1939
1939-01
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Mr. Lyon leans over one side of the wishing well peering into a bucket attached to a rope. It is a large wooden structure that is several feet taller than him and displays a sign that says "TOSSING A COIN OVER LEFT SHOULDER INTO WELL WILL MAKE A WISH COME TRUE MABE".
Whoever it was that decided to rob the wishing well at the Pony Express Museum didn't receive much for their efforts of jumping into a well that is eight feet deep other than a few pennies, three nickels, one shiny prayer token and a set of false teeth.
Similar photograph appears with the article, "Wishing Well Raider Gets False Teeth, Coins and Bath," Los Angeles Times, 07 Jan 1939: 8.
Text from negative sleeve: 12999 - W. Parker Lyon Lyon owner, Pony Express Museum Museum wishing well robbed [stamped:] Jan 23 1939
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_11671
ark:/21198/zz002h8g99
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Signs (Notices)
Wishing wells--California--Arcadia
Robberies--California--Arcadia
Pony Express Museum
Lyon, W. Parker
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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