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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. |
October 26, 1935,
Los Angeles Times @ ProQuest via LA Public Library
Three ten North Tamarind was a little house, so maybe some circus staff lived there. The old factory was across the street.
Here is the site of the old tire factory as it has been redeveloped. Please note Arbutus St. at upper right, between Alameda and Tamarind:
Googlemap
May 1925 Compton Sanborn Map, showing the Samson Tire and Rubber plant and, in the lower right corner, the house at 310 N. Tamarind.
At upper right is Arbutus Street. Terebinth has not yet been renamed Palmer:
ProQuest via LA Public Library
September 1938 Compton Sanborn Map, with the old Samson plant now operated by U.S. Tire and Rubber:
ProQuest via LAPL
An article on Tom Mix in the February 21, 1937,
Los Angeles Times says, “At season’s end, the show retires to winter quarters at Anniston, Ala., and
Tom returns to Hollywood. . . . Next winter he may house the troupe here.” So the winter of 1935-36 may have been the last one in Compton.