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Originally Posted by HossC
The caption for this photo from 'Compton' by Robert Lee Johnson claims to show Tom Mix's winter quarters in Compton.
I've studied the picture for a while, and discounted several buildings, but still can't decide which one belonged to Tom Mix.
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Here's an enlargement that might help.
There's a building at lower left that might be a possibility.
This one.
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. . .of course there are other possibilities as well.
Noir Noir, is the intersection of N. Wilmington and W. Palmer Street
(formerly TEREBINTH) visible in
Hoss' aerial?
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Originally Posted by Noir_Noir
May not be the location in your picture e_r but in 1935 the Tom Mix Circus winter quarters was in a Samson Tire plant.
archive.org - Variety - November 1935
I guess this means an old Samson Tire location in Compton - the company moved to the City Of Commerce in 1928.
The only address I can find for Samson in Compton.
rescarta.lapl.org
Terebinth is now W. Palmer Street. |
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