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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
I found these two interesting, but somewhat confusing construction postcards a while back.
1911
ebay
detail/Margaret Illington?
I googled a bit and found out there is a Brownstein Building at 722 S. Los Angeles Street built 1911 and a Louis Stores Building next door
at 724 S. Los Angeles Street built 1912. (both were designed by Arthur Angel)
Are these the buildings in the postcards, or did Brownstein-Louis Co. have a factory down in Vernon or some other locale?
http://www.you-are-here.com/downtown/brownstein.html
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I think Brownstein-Louis just had 716-22 S. Los Angeles. This portion of the 1914 Baist Map (west is at the top) shows the block bounded by 8th and 7th Streets on the left and right, and Los Angeles and Maple on the top and bottom, with Santee dead-ending just north of 8th. You can see the same relationship of the two B-L buildings -- parcels D and K -- shown in the postcard above:
HistoricMapworks: --
http://www.historicmapworks.com/Map/US/19056/Plate+001/
1913 LA City Directory @ Fold3.com
As for Margaret Illington,
Kindling was apparently one of her last good roles. August 1911 may have been fairly early in the play's run.
Kindling reviewed:
http://books.google.com/books?id=CeY...ington&f=false
She was first married to theater producer Daniel Frohman, one of whose friends may have written this in February 1909:
http://books.google.com/books?id=zDZ...ington&f=false
In November 1909, a week after she finally divorced Frohman, she married her second husband, who seems to have gotten his big break in show business by marrying her: the man "presenting" her in the poster, Edward J. Bowes . . . aka Major Bowes, of Amateur Hour fame.
I am pleased that Major Bowes was well before my time, but I do have a very faint memory of his replacement, Ted Mack.
More on Margaret Illington:
http://www.pantagraph.com/news/local...a4bcf887a.html
http://broadway.cas.sc.edu/content/margaret-illington
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg...&GRid=24229480