Mertie West, Eva Newquist, Rudy Newquist, Anna Newquist, Maurine Bacon, Tommie Newquist and "Punkie" Bacon pose while supping in the Bacons' backyard, Los Angeles, 1948
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Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. According to: California State Library; Sacramento, California; Great Register of Voters, 1900-1968, for the year 1948, accessed through the Ancestry.com database, the Bacons, Newquists and Robinsons were neighbors of H. H. and Mertie West on North Ridgewood Place. The Wests lived at 830 North Ridgewood Place and the Bacons, Newquists and Robinsons lived at 836, 832 1/2 and 832 North Ridgewood Place, respectively. Photograph of Mertie West, Eva Newquist, Rudy Newquist, Anna Newquist, Maurine Bacon, Tommie Newquist and "Punkie" Bacon posing while they take supper in the Bacons' backyard on North Ridgewood Place in Los Angeles. The group is situated in the near distance at center. The two children sit at a children's table in front of the larger dining table at center. Tommie Newquist sits at left and "Punkie" Bacon sits at the front end of the children's table. Both look to the camera. Beyond them, from left to right, Mertie West, Eva Newquist, Rudy Newquist, Anna Newquist and Maurine Bacon sit in a semi-circle around the far side of the dining table and look to the camera. The side of a house stands along the right edge and stretches back. The small yard is lined by a fence at left that extends behind the group and meets the house at center. Utility poles and the roofs of neighboring houses are visible in the background at left. Square patches of white dot the bottom edge and wide band of white extends upward along the right edge. Text from negative sleeve: 2385. 830 North Ridgewood Place Los Angeles, July 1948 [handwritten:] To Bacon 7/'55 [drawn line, circle around "1"] [end handwritten] 1 "Punkie" Bacon 2 L to R: Mrs Bacon, Mr Robinson, Mrs H.H.West with Tommie Newquist, Mrs Robinson 3 Mr Robinson after the weeds 4 Tommie Newquist 5 Bacon and Newquist working on lock 6 Supper on rear lawn of Bacon's home after the Shrine Circus. L to R: Mrs H.H.West, Mrs Newquist, Rudy Newquist. Mrs Newquist, Rudy's mother, Mrs Bacon, Tommie Newquist and "Punkie" Bacon
Type
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1998_2385_001 ark:/21198/zz002j3vjd
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Eating & drinking--California--Los Angeles Neighbors Backyards--California--Los Angeles Dwellings--California--Los Angeles Dinner parties--California--Los Angeles Newquist, Eva Astrid Marie Bjornstahl, 1907-1990 Bacon, Madeline Elizabeth, b. 1942 Newquist, Anna Maria Johnson, 1872-1958 Newquist, Thomas Rudolf, 1945-2008 West, Mertie Whitaker, 1875-1972 Bacon, Maurine E. Stover, 1917-2009 Newquist, Rudolf L., 1904-1960
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