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THE UNIVERSITY
OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELESCALIFORNIA WELCOMES YOU
 THE OFFICIAL SOUVENIR, BOOK OF ALMALAIKAH TEMPLE A• A• O N-M S
1923 IMPERIAl COUNCIL MEETING
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WASHINGTON
JUNE 4tk. TO 8tk.
REPRESENTATIVES to the IMPERIAL COUNCIL
GEORGE A. FITCH RECORDER
WALTER C.DURGIN
TREASURER
TOUIS M. COLE POTENTATE
(REPRE SENTATIVE)
DAVE SMITH CHIEF RABBAN
SIM CKABILL
ASS'T RABEAN
WM• RHODES HERVE! HIGH PRIEST AND PROPHET
KENNETH IL GILLETTE ORIENTAL GUIDE
LEO V YOUNG WORTH
MOTLEYH.FLINT
JAME$ W JUMPAL MALAIKAH’S NEW TEMPLE
ON January 11, 1920, a very disastrous fire destroyed the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, and since that date, while without a home, the Building Committee of A1 Malaikah Temple has been diligently at work financing and planning a newer and finer temple, which, when completed,, we believe will be one of the finest structures of its kind in the world. A1 Malaikah’s new home will be built on the
same site that the former building occupied, the excavation for this magnificent structure shown on the opposite page having been made and as this book goes to press plans and specifications are in the hands of the contractors for bids.
A few of the outstanding facts relative to the financing, planning and erection of what we believe will be Allah’s finest shrine in North America can be gained from this brief story. The building will cost $1,500,000.00. The main auditorium will seat 7000 people before a massive stage of 100 feet in width and 75 feet in depth, which can be increased to 95 feet depth for ceremonial purposes. The main balcony of the auditorium has a span of 192 feet, with no columns to obstruct the view of those seated on the main floor. Steel and reinforced concrete throughout, the building will represent the final word in modem structural engineering and planning.
Ventilation will at all times be׳ideal, the air being entirely changed every sixty seconds.
Wide aisles and exits on all sides permit the emptying of the building in five minutes.
About eighteen months will be required for the completion of the temple.
Ample dressing rooms are provided back stage for large theatrical attractions that would demand the use of the auditorium, making it the largest and finest equipped auditorium in Los Angeles. A large registration room and lounge for visiting nobles has been provided for, also well appointed locker rooms for band, patrol, chanters and divan.
The banquet hall, with facilities for seating about 10,000 at one time, will be a separate structure from the main auditorium, but adjoining it, and will have a floor area of over 100,000 square feet in basement, main and mezzanine floor, with kitchen.Ä.LXA1AXKAHS" TEMBLE Jù O -ÄJMC^OGUE S"
(jMOV? UNDEÍ( construction)SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TODAY
NATURE is a wise old dame, and all men are liars. With these two fundamental facts in mind it is easy to understand and to explain the remarkable situation
that exists in Southern California today.
That a remarkable situation does exist cannot be denied. Take the city of Los Angeles, for example. In 1870 that city had a population of about 6000 people. That was more than fifty years ago, and yet the population of Los Angeles today has reached nearly one million. And the same situation exists all through Southern California.
Every one who really knows Southern California knows that is a remarkable situation. He knows that if all the world realized what Nature has done for Southern California, and what man has done to aid Nature, there wouldn’t be standing room from the Mexican border to the tops of the Tehachipis. And why doesn’t all the world realize this—what’s the answer?
Ah, Brother, it’s because Nature is a wise old dame and all men are liars.
When Nature tucked away this little paradise by the western sea she knew very well that men often scoff at the tales other men tell, and she knew it would take a long, long time for the whole world to really believe what she had done out here in Southern California.
Suppose some Southern California native—either natural or adopted—becomes so highly charged with enthusiasm over the glories of his home land that he either has to sing or bust—what does he do ? He sings, of course. He sings out loud. He sings of a land ofmilk and honey and lotus blooms. He sings of azure days and balmy nights, of silvery moons and myriad stars of molten gold, of purple wavelets caressing palm-fringed beaches. He sings of mocking birds trilling in sunlight that dances on magnolia leaves; he sings of air that revivifies like mellow wine; he sings of geraniums at Christmas time, of orange blossoms culled at the base of snow-clad peaks, of gorgeous blooms whose riotous embrace transforms simple bungalows into fairy palaces.
And what happens when his song reaches the frostbitten ears of some hard-boiled denizen of Mikiwawa, Michigan? You know what happens! The hard-boiled one cocks a weather eye at the leaden clouds above him, buckles his galoshes, tightens his ear-muffs, and says: “All men are liars—but that nut out in California wins the fur-lined bath tub!’’
As a matter of fact, everyone who has ever been in Southern California knows the song rings true, except that it doesn’t tell half the story. But a lot of ’em won’t believe it. Nature is a wise old dame.
Which explains why Southern California is merely doubling its population every few years instead of being literally swamped by millions who would come here if they only could forget that all men are liars.
Of course there may be other reasons why only 100,000 new people are coming to Southern California every year. In these modem days, before a man decides to pull up stakes and pitch his wigwam in a new spot he wants to hear something about other things than azure days and balmy nights and silvery moons. Perhaps he wouldn’t know a mocking bird’s song from a tom-tit’s wail, and doesn’t even know that a geranium breaks all union rules when it blooms at Christmas time.
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Blake, Moffitt & Towne	Dan Murphy
Pacific Desk CompanyPerhaps we Southern Californians should sing of other things—but it’s so much easier to sing of these than to sing of business blocks, and banks and aqueducts and shipyards and concrete highways and woolen mills, and harbors and furniture factories and hundreds of other great industrial features that are making Southern California one of the busiest as well as one of the richest spots on the globe.
Speaking of wealth, some indication of the money that people are making in Southern California may be gleaned from the fact that Uncle Sam stepped into the Southern California Internal Revenue District recently and collected $ 13,000,000 in income tax for the first quarter of 1923, this being an increase of $3,000,000 over the same period last year. Incidentally, this equals the increase made by the Manhattan district of New York, with all its millions of people.
With all the money that has been made and is being made in Southern California there has naturally arisen a need for banks. There are still a lot of people who are prejudiced against keeping their earnings in an old sock, or a tomato can. In Los Angeles alone there are eighteen banks, maintaining eighty-seven branches within the city, and having aggregate deposits of more than $658,000,000. This is a little more than the combined deposits of all of the 1268 banks in Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada and New Mexico.
Lest you should think, from these figures, that Southern California hoards its money, let’s take a peek at a survey of the purchasing power of various cities, recently made by the Roger W. Babson organization. This shows that purchases made in the city of Los Angeles during January last amounted to more than $665,000,000, a gain of 347% over January of 1919, and by far the greatest gain of any city in the United States. In fact, Los Angeles
COMPLIMENTS OF Sun Drug Companypurchases nearly equalled the combined purchases of the entire states of Washington and Oregon. Taking the eight principal cities of Southern California, Babson gives them a combined purchasing power, based on purchases, greater than the purchasing power of New Hampshire, Delaware, Washington and Oregon, all combined.
There is no doubt that the people of Southern California like, and insist on having, the best that life affords. Take the matter of automobiles, for instance. There are more automobiles per capita in Southern California than in any other section of the United States —and they are not all made in Detroit.
The Automobile Club of Southern California, which was incorporated in 1900 with about 40 members, now has more than 79,000 members enrolled and recently built a new home in Los Angeles which cost, inclusive of the grounds, approximately $1,000,000. The club has twenty-six branch offices, has erected and maintains 94,000 road signs, and distributed more than fourteen million maps, not only to members, but to auto tourists from every part of the world.
To most people the mention of Southern California brings mental pictures of vast orange and lemon groves—and the picture is a true one. California’s citrus crop now yields more than $80,000,000 annually, and by far the greatest part of this comes from Southern California. Nine counties in the northern part of the state also grow oranges and lemons, but of the state’s total of 179,000 acres in bearing oranges, Southern California has 136,000. Los Angeles county leads in citrus production, with San Bernardino county a close second. California citrus fruits are now marketed not only in every state in the Union, but also in England and Continental Europe.
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Retail Dry Goods Association of Los AngelesAnd now Southern California gives promise of producing another great industry which may some day rival her great citrus industry. This is the growing of date palms.
Down on the southern edge of the state, about 100 miles from Los Angeles, there is a vast desert of 300,000 acres which holds forth a promise of rich rewards to the date grower. Already some 1500 acres have been planted in dates. Most of these are still seedlings, but some of the property has produced crops that netted a return of $4000 to the acre. It is estimated that one acre in dates has an earning capacity equal to five acres in oranges or twenty acres in walnuts.
Not so attractive as oranges or dates, and yet a highly important product of Southern California, is—oil. Last year Los Angeles and Orange counties alone produced more than 70,000,000 barrels of crude oil—enough to make a river 100 feet wide, 5 feet deep and 168 miles long. Just how much gasoline this would make the statistician doesn’t say, but it should be enough to keep several flivvers running a long time.
Naturally, so vast and wealthy an empire as Southern California must have a metropolis, and Southern California has a glorious one. Its name is Neustra Señora la Reina de Los Angeles. At least that was the name given it by the little band of colonists who settled there about 150 years ago. In the dulcet Spanish tongue that means “Our Lady, Queen of the Angels.” Since then, however, the queenly lady has been sadly overlooked, but most people will know what you mean when you merely say “Los Angeles.”
It is difficult to speak of Los Angeles without getting into superlatives, for the city’s growth and achievements during the past decade have been simply astounding. Statistics are usually tiresome things, but unless some statistics are given it is almost impossible to
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Retail Dry Goods Association of Los Angelescredit some of the things that Los Angeles actually has done. For instance, Los Angeles building permits during the war period averaged about $15,000,000 annually. In 1919 they jumped to $28,000,000, in 1920 to $60,000,000, in 1921 to $82,000,000, and in 1922 to more than $121,000,000.
They say liars can figure, but even the best of liars will have a hard time making those figures mean anything but a most remarkable development and growth.
The great Los Angeles Aqueduct, which supplies the city with an abundance of pure, cold mountain water, is in itself an achievement deserving a place in civic history. It is the longest aqueduct in the world, having a flow of 235 miles. Its cost was over $25,000,000 and its capacity is 258,000,000 gallons.
The Los Angeles school system is unsurpassed anywhere in the country. The city pays more, per capita, for public education than any other city in the United States. Los Angeles hotels will accommodate 150,000 people, the city has twenty-five public parks totalling 4100 acres, it has a wonderful public library with twelve branches and twenty-four sub-branches, it has splendid museums, art galleries, playgrounds and public baths.
And with all that, the Los Angeles debt, per capita, is half that of New York City.
More electric power is used by Los Angeles manufacturers than is similarly employed in any other city in the nation, and the splendid development of its interurban service renders it practicable for a man in business or employed in the city to engage in small-scale farming outside.
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De Moulin Bros. & Co. Swanfeldt Tent & Awning Co.Within a few minutes’ ride of Los Angeles by motor or swift electric trains are a dozen famous seaside resorts, including Santa Monica, Venice, Ocean Park, Redondo Beach, Long Beach, Hermosa Beach, Seal Beach and Manhattan Beach. And across a twenty-five-mile stretch of gleaming water is famous Catalina Island, which has attracted more internationally known sportsmen than any other spot on the globe. Here is where sportsmen come from all over the world to fish for tuna, yellowtail and other big game fish. On Catalina Island is the picturesque little city of Avalon, home of the Tuna Club, one of the most exclusive organizations ever founded, whose membership roster includes the names of men famous all over the globe.
And still the tale of Southern California is not half told—nor one-tenth told. For generations artists have sought to place the tale on canvas—but even their inspired brushes failed to give more than a fleeting impression of its magic. For generations writers have sought in vain to frame the tale in unresponsive type. If you would know Southern California you must first come under her spell. Then you’ll realize that Nature is a wise old dame. And perhaps you’ll forget that all men are liars.
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Myers, Darling & Hinton Co.	Lawson F. Utter
Westinghouse Electric Co.	Otto L. WuerkerSHIPPING IMPERIAL VALLEY COTTON FROM LOSANGELES HARBOR
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Klein-Simpson Fruit Co.	
National Cornice Works
Los Angeles Basket Co.GOOD ROADS MAKE MOTORING A JOY
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Western Costume Co.AEROPLANE VIEW-THOß.H.INCE ßTUDIOß . CULVER CITY, CAE.
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PRODUCTION CENTER. OF UNIVERSAL PICTUREALONG THE BEACH AT OCEAN PARK
Ralph Hamlin, Inc. Southern California Distributor Franklin Cars
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A. E. Little Company 432 South Broadway Los AngelesVIEWS OF LONG BEACH OIL FIELD
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Petroleum Commercial Club of Long Beach
Long Beach, CaliforniaSAN FERNANDO MISSION
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Angeles Mesa Land CompanyTHE TERRACED GROUNDS OF A SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ESTATE
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E. M. Smith Co.	Emsco Steel Products Co.ONE OF MANY GROUPS OF OIL WELLS
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C. Ganahl Lumber Company
Los AngelesCOMPLIMENTS OF
Barker Brothers
Complete Furnishers of Successful Homes
DIRECT STEAMSHIP LINES BETWEEN LOS ANGELES AND HONOLULUONE OF LOS ANGELES’ MUNICIPAL HYDRO-ELECTRIC GENERATING PLANTS
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Wreden Packing & Provision Co.SAN GABRIEL MISSION—FOUNDED 1771
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Pacific Electric Railway Company
Los AngelesA VIEW IN HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA
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North American Bond & Mortgage Co. Guaranty Building & Loan Association
Hollywood, CaliforniaA CALIFORNIA HOME—LOS ANGELES
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Milton G. Cooper Dry Goods Company
Wholesale Dry GoodsA MOUNTAIN CABIN RESORT
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California Glass & Paint CompanyRIDGE ROUTE ROAD—27 MILES OF CONCRETE MOUNTAIN HIGHWAY
COMPLIMENTS OF Western Machinery Company Manufacturers and Distributors of Gas and Diesel Engines for Every Power PurposeCOAST AT LA JOLLA, NEAR SAN DIEGO
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Platt Music CompanyA ROSE COVERED HOME—LOS ANGELES
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Royal Packing CompanyPINES IN THE HIGH SIERRAS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
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Los Angeles Creamery CompanyHOLLYWOOD BOWL-EASTER MORNING, 1922
COMPLIMENTS OF C. E. Toberman Company Hollywood, CaliforniaDRY DOCK AT LOS ANGELES HARBOR
COMPLIMENTS OF W. P. Jeffries Company Printers—Engravers—LithographersCOMPLIMENTS OF
Graham Reynolds Electric Co. Illinois Electric Co. Listenwalter & Gough
Pacific States Electric Co. Western Electric Co. Western Light Fixture Co.
ORANGE GROVES AND SNOW COVERED MOUNTAINSA HOLLYWOOD HOME
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Bruner Marble & Tile Co.	Newmarket CompanyHORSEBACK TRAILS ARE NUMEROUS IN THE MOUNTAINS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
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Crescent Creamery Company A. F. Gilmore Co.MOTOR BOATING A POPULAR SPORT
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Grand Central Public Market	Standard Market
Between 3rd and 4th on Hill and Broadway	314 South Hill StreetA SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BUNGALOW
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Brown & Pengily	Bishop and CompanyA FOOTHILL DRIVE
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W. L. Valentine	Sierra Paper Company
Italian Vineyard CompanyA VIEW IN HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA
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Taft Realty and Taft Development Co.
Hollywood, CaliforniaLAKE ARROWHEAD—A SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PLAYGROUND
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Arrowhead Lake CompanyCOMPLIMENTS OF
Banking Institutions of Los AngelesCOMPLIMENTS OF
Banking Institutions of Los AngelesCOMPLIMENTS OF
Greater Santa Ana Club
Santa Ana, CaliforniaLOS ANGELES SHIPS FROM HER HARBOR TO THE PORTS OF THE WORLD
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Western Lithograph Company
Engravers—Printers—LithographersCOMPLIMENTS OF
Silverwoods, Inc.
California’s Biggest Store for Men and Boys Long Beach—Los Angeles—BakersfieldCOMPLIMENTS OF
Ambassador Hotel CorporationCOUNTRY HOME IN VERDUGA WOODLANDS, NEAR LOS ANGELES
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Safety Electric Products CompanyCOMPLIMENTS OF
R. A. Rowan & Co. Owners and Agents Real Estate—Rentals—InsuranceWESTERN FACTORIES OF THE GOODYEAR TIRE AND RUBBER CO. AT LOS ANGELES. COMPLETED IN JUNE, 1919. OVER 2,250,000 TIRES PRODUCED THERE TO DATE.
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Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company of CaliforniaBILTMORE HOTEL, LOS ANGELES
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Los Angeles Biltmore
To be opened October 1, 1923
JOHN McENTEE BOWMAN, President JAMES WOODS, Vice Pres. CHAS. BAAD, ManagerBIG PINES PARK—LOS ANGELES COUNTY PLAYGROUNDS
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Times-Mirror Printing & Binding HouseBIG PINES PARK IN THE WINTER
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Los Angeles Gas and Electric CorporationALONG THE SHORE AT PALOS VERDES ESTATES
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Palos Verdes EstatesCLARK HOTEL—LOS ANGELES
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Clark HotelA VIEW OF THE OCEAN FRONT AT LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA
COMPLIMENTS OF Retail Merchants Association Long Beach, CaliforniaA SCENE AT LOS ANGELES HARBOR
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William E. Bush
Exclusive Dealer in Pierce Arrow Cars and TrucksA ROCKY POINT ON THE SOUTHERN COAST
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DON LEE
Cadillac Distributor for CaliforniaFISHERMEN’S PARADISE—ONE OF THE CHANNEL ISLAND BAYS NEAR LOS ANGELES
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Janss Investment Company
Los AngelesA MOUNTAIN LAKE RESORT IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
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Stewart Dawes Shoe Co.	City of PasadenaVENICE OF AMERICA
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Harris & Frank
Outfitters to Men, Women and ChildrenSPANISH ARCHITECTURE AT SAN FERNANDO
COMPLIMENTS OF Fraters Glass & Paint Co. Pacific Builders Supply Co.SANTA BARBARA MISSION—FOUNDED 1786
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Los Angeles Soap Company
Makers of White King SoapA LAKE IN THE MOUNTAINS
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Llewellyn Iron Works	Nelson & Price
TiresHOME AND IRRIGATION CANAL IN KERN COUNTY
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Kern County Chamber of Commerce
Kern County, CaliforniaREADY FOR ROD AND REEL-BEAR LAKE
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Terminal Refrigerating Co.	J. Y. Baruh
Pacific Coast Sales Book Co.BREAKERS OF THE PACIFIC APPEAL TO BATHERS
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Petroleum Commercial Club of Long Beach
Long Beach, CaliforniaNEAR THE HEADWATERS OF LOS ANGELES’ MUNICIPAL WATER SUPPLY
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M. H. Whittier	McComas Dry Goods Co.W. P. STORY BUILDING, HOME OF MULLEN-BLUETT CLOTHING COMPANY
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Mullen-Bluett Clothing Company
Men’s Clothing and FurnishingsSTORAGE OF WATER IN THE MOUNTAINS FOR IRRIGATION
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Frank Graves Sash, Door and Mill CompanyYACHTING IN THE WATERS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA THE YEAR ROUND
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Henry B. Day Company	B. L. Graves
W. I. HollingsworthA VIEW OF LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA
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Long Beach, Clearing House Association
Long Beach, CaliforniaPACIFIC MUTUAL BUILDINGS—LOS ANGELES
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Pacific Mutual Life Insurance CompanyOCEAN BATHERS
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Talbert Whitmore Company	Harry W. Brintnall
E. K. Wood Lumber Company Drake, Riley & ThomasALONG THE PALISADES—SANTA MONICA
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Rivers Brothers	Simon Levi Company
Johnson, Carvell & Murphy	E. Richard Just
Hartford Windshield CompanyNEW HALL OF JUSTICE AND CRIMINAL COURT BUILDING, LOS ANGELES
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Baker Iron WorksPRODUCE COURT AT LOS ANGELES UNION TERMINAL
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Los Angeles Union Terminal Company Union Terminal Warehouse Co.CONCRETE HIGHWAY BRIDGE OVER ARROYO SECO—PASADENA
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Young’s Market Company, Inc.ONE OF THE MANY TROUT STREAMS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
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Hammond Lumber CompanyROSSLYN HOTEL—LOS ANGELES
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Rosslyn Hotel—Hart Brothers