Valley's first supper club owner, Julia St. Cyr with Jeannette McKelvey at birthday party
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
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This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Julia St. Cyr and her husband arrived in the Valley in 1922 where they bought 30 acres of landed filled with walnut groves According to Mrs. St. Cyr "When prohibition was repealed we transferred our barn into a tavern called 'Bowling Green Ranch'....We were refused a license, though, on account of our being so far out and on a dirt road." The land on which the tavern stood later beame part of the Van Nuys Airport. Photograph caption dated September 1, 1959 reads, "Surprise Party. Mrs. Julia St. Cyr, seated in "queen's chair," was feted at surprise luau given by friends to celebrate her 85th birthday. At left is her sister, Mrs. Jeannette McKelvey, 83, who was visiting from Ohio at time of party."
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image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ; 26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
Birthday parties--California--Los Angeles Luaus--California--Los Angeles Restaurants--California--Van Nuys (Los Angeles) Older women--California--Los Angeles Van Nuys (Los Angeles, Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs
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