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Newspaper
Coronado Compass
Location
Coronado, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1947
Page
2
Readers recount historical scenes of Coronado including Pacific Beach trips to Hotel del Coronado in the 1890 era. The narrator recalls horse and buggy travel on Sundays and tents with palm roofs added later for cooling.
The item asks for the year the Volunteer Coronado Fire Department organized and the names and addresses of still living members in Coronado with pictures. It also asks when the Mitchell Art Gallery at Star Park and Flora Avenue was built or demolished and when Coronado bought acreage at the south end of Tent City including from whom the purchase was made and the acreage and cost.
A Santa Cruz letter recalls the Lubin Company of 1915 and its film The Slave of the Harem with Lee Schumway, plus notes on the U S S Colorado involvement and Coronado studio site near the old car barn. The writer mentions Lt Commander Harmon and hints at North Island drill history.
An airmail letter postmarked Coronado arrives to Mrs. William Ely care of The Compass. The note recalls old Coronado scenes including a museum near the hotel and bath house, the tennis courts by the street car station, and questions who was the champion woman player in Coronado.
Miss Helen M. Stevens wins a prize for correctly dating polo activity at Coronado Country Club. Scrub polo occurred in 1904 and 1905, first official match in 1906, popular years 1908 to 1917, and Army players kept polo alive during World War I. An attempted revival by Major Colin G. Ross occurred in 1919 or 1920 with visiting players.
The text recalls the final polo games at Midwick Country Club and soft ball polo at Coronado Riding Club in the 1930s. It notes newspaper delivery by Hugh Foster on horseback, a museum exhibit of a 50-foot whale skeleton, and Mary Pickford in a film with a bay shore boat scene near E Avenue around 1915. Alonzo de Jessop and the Jessop family are cited as early residents.
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