Bill DeJournett was the chief mechanic on some of the Morris cars. By any chance would he have been your grandfather?
Inside the homes of Hollywood Golden Age's rich and famous | Daily Mail Online ‘A faded gold star’: The glamorous hotel where Rudolph Valentino honeymooned with his first wife Jean Acker (though they never consummated the marriage) The Hollywood Hotel once played temporary home to celebrities such as Rudolph Valentino and Ethel Barrymore. Valentino honeymooned there with his first wife, Jean Acker. At the modern-day intersection of Highland Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard, the property featured 250 guestrooms. Its ballroom was decorated with literal stars painted with the names of celebrities. Its guest ledger, which has since been given over to the Smithsonian, reads like a laundry list of early 1900s A-listers. The HJ Whitley-designed property was bought by Almira Hershey, an heiress who lived in Bunker Hill, in 1906. She hired Margaret J Anderson to manage it. In 1912, Anderson left amid disputes with Hersey to manage the Beverly Hills Hotel, which still stands today. The exodus was somewhat dramatic, and caused the immediate one-day closure of the Hollywood Hotel. The Hollywood Hotel hosted silent film stars such as Rudolph Valentino in its heyday. The hotel had 250 rooms Today, the site of the Hollywood Hotel is occupied by the Hollywood and Highland Center
I think this is a spy photo of early Canadian war games aimed at the United States. As stated in the documentary film "Canadian Bacon" by the President of the U.S. (played convincingly and accurately by Alan Alda), "27 million Canadians are amassed along the border", ready to pounce! I'm not into conspiracy theories, but can we really trust a nation whose currency is "looney"? Hey... just askin'.. PS: British Columbia excluded... they wanted to become part of the U.S. until Montreal recognized them as a legit part of Canada... Wish they would have done it! Back to regularly scheduled programming...
My mother talked about how the streetlights were on in the middle of the day because of the steel mills. She was born in 1915, so that would have been a long time ago.
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