e_r, Here's the back of the postcard . . .
odinthor collection
I believe that the newspaper article you noticed made what we call, in technical journalese parlance, a
boo-boo in referring to 2nd St., as I can't find any other references to Harlow having a rink on 2nd St. The cafe itself was being overhauled:
LA Herald, 2/22/1916
And Harlow had looked for local talent for the show:
LA Herald, 2/18/1916
Ice Rinks seem to have been all the rage at the time. Within a few months, there were no fewer than three:
At Harlow's Cafe, as we saw; and then . . . at the Alexandria:
LA Times, 4/20/1916
And the Bristol Cafe:
LA Times, 2/27/1916
And then there's . . .
LA Times, 4/26/1916
Harlow was feeling generous. He had just given a free Christmas dinner to 150 local children:
LA Times, 12/26/1915; Harlow smiling at right, wife Lulu Bell benignly presiding over the youngsters, and I suspect son Roy is the grinning young gentleman immediately next to Harlow. The young gent farther back, behind both Mrs. Harlow and Roy, seems to be having a moment of dubiety about the whole enterprise. (The partial pic at bottom concerns an unrelated event.)
The needy were selected, with the help of Harlow's son Roy:
LA Times, 12/26/1915