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Real Estate Boom Frights End With Rescue in San Francisco
Jacob Schmidt, a Brooklyn grocer, travels west during the 1887 Los Angeles boom. He is chased by aggressive real estate agents from Pasadena to San Francisco, narrowly escapes, and is saved by a detective who reveals Schmidt’s tale of fear and flight. The odyssey ends with Schmidt returning east, his mind preserved but his nerves frayed, his fate a cautionary tale of frantic California speculation.
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San Francisco
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Los Angeles
De‘tective
New York
Jacob Schmidt
California
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Frau Schmidt
Atlantic
Brooklyn
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Pasadens
Flepors
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Gretchen
Pasadena
Schmidt
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Jacob Sehmidt
San Diego
Old Bay
O'Brien
Thomas Bragg
O’brien
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Nopody
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Baldwin Hotel
Grant Avenue
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Franklin H. Austin
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Francisco Argonaut