Monday, March 18, 2024

Ferry Steamer General Frisbie in Tow of the Rainier -- March 18, 2024

San Francisco Call, 27-December-1900

From the 27-December-1900 San Francisco Call. William A Coulter did many maritime drawings for the newspaper. Click on the image for a larger view.

The Hatch Brothers, originally from Monticello, New York, founded the Monticello Steamship Company to operate fast ferries from Vallejo to San Francisco. Learn more about it on my ferryboat site:
http://www.cable-car-guy.com/ferry/


Sunday, March 17, 2024

Happy Saint Patrick's Day, 2024 -- March 17, 2024

San Francisco Examiner, 18-March-1924

Happy Saint Patrick's Day, everyone. 100 years ago today, San Francisco was having a busy day. 


Saturday, March 16, 2024

Albert Bierstadt -- Yellow Butterfly -- March 16, 2024

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Albert Biersdadt created "Yellow Butterfly" about 1890. The colors are beautiful.

Friday, March 15, 2024

Kodak in the Home -- March 15, 2024

Photoplay, March, 1924

George Eastman's Kodak cameras allowed many people to take up photography. "A Kodak record of the children catches them just as they are and keeps them just as they were."

Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Time Magazine -- Eugene O'Neill -- March 13, 2024

Time, March 17, 1924

Eugene O'Neill was a realist playwright. 

Alta California, 15-June-1884

His father, James O'Neill, spent a significant portion of his career playing Edmond Dantes, The Count of Monte Cristo. James O'Neill played the part over 6000 times between 1875 and the early Twentieth Century. He grew sick of the role and felt that it stunted his growth as an actor, but the public demanded that he play the Count.

After Eugene was expelled from Princeton, he joined the merchant marine. He fought with depression and alcoholism, but he gathered material for many of his plays. He joined the IWW's Marine Transport Workers Union.

Topeka State Journal, 21-October-1922


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Struck by tuberculosis, he spent time ashore in a sanitarium. He began to write plays. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936. This gave him enough money to buy a house in Danville, California. Tao House is a national historic monument. I have never visited there.

Many of his plays were successes on stage and went on to become movies.

New York Tribune, 03-November-1921

Casper Daily Tribune, 21-December-1923

Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 16-November-1924

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Tuesday, March 12, 2024

All Kinds of Soda Water Including Dr. Pepper and Red Diamond Root Beer -- March 12, 2024

Columbia Star, 27-March-1924

I have been having trouble finding ads for Dr Pepper. I had a Diet Dr Pepper this afternoon. I'm not sure about Red Diamond Root Beer, but it may have been manufactured in Birmingham, Alabama.