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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, from left to right, of Maurine Bacon, James Robinson, Mertie West with Tommie Newquist and Gertrude Robinson standing in front of the Newquists' residence on North Ridgewood Place. A driveway spans the width of the bottom edge and stretches back on an angle to the right towards a detached garage. The garage stands in partial view along the right edge. The group stands in the near distance at center. Some stand on the lawn at left and some on the driveway at right. All but Gertrude Robinson (rightmost) face towards the camera. Tommie Newquist stands in front of Mertie West. Maurine Bacon, Mertie and Tommie all cast their gaze upwards and past the camera. James Robinson looks down to the left. Behind them, the Newquists' bungalow-style house stands in partial view. It is viewed at an angle from the front and the right side. A walkway is visible stretching back between the sides of the house and the garage. Opaque white patches occupy the lower left and lower right corners. 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_004 ark:/21198/zz002j3vnz
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Neighbors Dwellings--California--Los Angeles Robinson, James Archibald, 1878-1968 Newquist, Thomas Rudolf, 1945-2008 West, Mertie Whitaker, 1875-1972 Bacon, Maurine E. Stover, 1917-2009 Robinson, Gertrude H., 1879-1961
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