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194012804San Francisco 1940. Printed handbill 8.5 x 6 inches illustrated. Minor handling wear horizontal crease. Very good. An unrecorded handbill advertising the Bay-Area radio broadcasts by Bishop Ezra Nero leader of the Landmark Spiritual Temple in San Francisco. The work includes a photographic portrait of Bishop Nero in his ecclesiastical garb. We could locate no other copies of this ephemeral broadside. unknown
19505277Los Angeles 1950. Good plus. 198pp. plus a folding panoramic photographic plate. Original green printed wrappers. Wrappers lightly soiled worn and detached with about a fourth of the spine perished. Minor thumb-soiling to first several leaves but otherwise clean. A rare edition of the annual meeting minutes and other proceedings of the National Negro Insurance Association for the year 1950 when the annual meeting was held July 18-21 in Los Angeles California. The work contains portraits of the officers of the association lists of officers and committees rolls of member companies and convention attendees and more. The preponderance of the work is comprised of a detailed record of the convention proceedings including the reports addresses and more presented in General Sessions Executive Seminars and an "Agency Institute." The panoramic photographic plate pictures the attendees of the convention and is described in the table of contents as "Group Picture of Convention in Los Angeles." OCLC records a smattering of issues at several institutions but very few record holdings for the present year. unknown
19774882Los Angeles 1977. Very good. 108pp. Original silver pictorial wrappers printed in white and gray stapled. Minor wear and dust-soiling. A profusely-illustrated souvenir program celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Las Fidelas Matrons of the Apostolic Faith Home Assembly a notable African-American Christian women's organization. The organization was formed in Los Angeles in 1952 comprised of the young married women of the Apostolic Home Assembly. The present work includes a history of the organization's founding portraits of founding current and past members numerous well wishes and congratulatory messages from a variety of local and national organizations ranging from sixteen-per-page to full page and a wealth of advertisements from local businesses. Material from the Las Fidelas Matrons is rare. We could locate no other copies of this work only a handful of records of the group's occasional cookbooks. unknown
19664071San Diego 1966. Good. 16pp. Oblong quarto. Original pictorial self wrappers stapled. Printed entirely in blue ink. Some staining and wrinkling to covers waterstain and minor chipping at bottom of gutter throughout occasionally affecting a few words. A seemingly unrecorded and ephemeral souvenir program published to coincide with the dedication ceremonies for the Refuge Church of God of the Apostolic Faith in San Diego California. The work contains a biography of the pastor Bishop John Harry Cannon along with portraits of him and his large family as well as a couple dozen photographs of fellow parishioners and the church itself. The final six pages of the work are comprised of advertisements for local businesses including gas stations auto shops a record store laundry services markets and more. The proposed date for the program comes from an ad for Ed Taylor Chevrolet who offers a 1966 Impala for the low low price of $2566. We could locate no copies of this informative program from an African-American church in San Diego in OCLC or elsewhere. unknown
19654885Fresno Ca 1965. Very good plus. 68pp. Original blue printed wrappers stapled. Minimal wear. Unrecorded program for the annual convention of the Most Worshipful Hiram of Tyre Grand Lodge Scottish Rite Masons which took place at Del Webb's Town House in Fresno in July 1965. The work includes a short schedule of events but is almost completely comprised of greetings and well wishes from dozens of Masonic and Eastern Star chapters across California. The program also includes numerous advertisements towards the rear of the text. OCLC reports no works at all from the Most Worshipful Hiram of Tyre Grand Lodge. unknown
19584140Oakland Ca 1958. Very good. 20pp. Quarto. Original blue wrappers printed in black stapled. Minor soiling and rubbing to wrappers. Top corner of one leaf torn away just touching one letter. A seemingly unrecorded program for the biennial meeting of an African American Masonic group at the Most Worshipful Golden West Lodge in California. The program includes the schedule of events a message from the Grand Matron Mrs. A.L. Washington and is profusely illustrated with photographs of the officers and members of the group supplemented with numerous advertisements from local California chapters often illustrated with portraits of both men and women involved in the organization. No copies in OCLC. unknown
19624881N.p. probably San Francisco 1962. Very good. 20pp. of mimeographed text on variously-sized and variously-colored paper stocks paper-clipped. Minor overall wear. A long and detailed compilation of notes compiled by the Northern California Negro Commission apparently overseen by the Communist Party of California between April and July 1962. The notes begin with an Introduction that provides context for the commission's activities. The Introduction begins: "After long discussion in this area it is our considered opinion that bold new program tactics and theoretical considerations must be developed on the Negro question in the coming period if the Communist Party is to contribute materially to the struggle for Negro liberation from this point on." The notes detail reasons that the position of African Americans must be reevaluated based on various cultural legal political and other developments. Other sections discuss the "national character of the struggle of the Negro in the U.S." the economic position of African Americans "Negro Suffrage in relation to the overall question" a long discussion of "The Muslim Movement" "Significant in respect to the role of the Negro in the working class is the rising black nationalist economically oriented Black Muslim movement" with discussions of Elijah Muhammad and some conclusions. We could locate no other copies of these notes but do not rule out the possibility they exist in some larger archives of African American and/or Communist material from 1960s California. unknown
19741406<p>70 pp. collection of stories illustrated throughout. 8vo. Accent of California International Writers Series 2 Very good. Illus. stiff wraps. 1406</p><p><i>The Kentucky-born Los Angeleno author's debut short story collection including "The Price of Dirt" "The Way of Shadows" "In the Dark" "Waiting for Mongo" and "Roman Times" which won the Gwendolyn Brooks Literary Award in 1972. In his preface to the work Jones explains that "most of the stories in this collection employ modern literary techniques as diverse as impressionism and surrealism and especially important is the experimental synthesis of fantasy/realism. Myths and mythical notions for example are sometimes utilized in a campy fashion. Black field hand dialect might end up in the mouths of the most educated aristocrats. Nevertheless all of this is not only plausible and appropriate to the situation but also creates effects which are organically natural to the stories in this book. THE PRICE OF DIRT is the collected stories of a people's reactions to a fantastic world designed to exclude them and their reality." Scarce in the marketplace and institutionally uncommon.</i></p> Accent of California
19715266Oakland: Marquette Press 1971. Very good. Photographically-illustrated handbill printed in blue ink 11 x 8.5 inches. Minor creasing. A seemingly-unrecorded handbill or flyer advertising a revival meeting at the Golden Gate Baptist Church in Oakland. The revival was presided over by Reverend James Coffee pastor of the Community Baptist Church in Santa Rosa. The flyer is illustrated with two different photographic portraits of Reverend Coffee. The text of the flyer states that "The Public is invited to worship with us each night in our Soul Saving Crusade For Together We Stand Divided We Fall." A former owner has used the verso of the broadside to record notes for some kind of medical class. We could locate no other copies of this ephemeral piece of African Americana from the West Coast. Marquette Press unknown
19554414Various locations 1955. Very good. 9 leaves illustrated with twenty-nine photographs various sizes between 3 x 2 inches and 9.5 x 7.5 inches with a manuscript index at front identifying the subjects. Later blue-green limp vinyl album with self adhesive pages. Minor wear and soiling. Photographs in generally nice condition. An interesting family photograph album assembled by a later-20th-century descendant of an African-American family with ties to Howard University Alcorn College and the West Coast. The photographs are mostly studio portraits of various kinds sepia-toned black-and-white hand-tinted featuring distinguished African-American men women and children. The photographs are arranged in number order and keyed to a handwritten list at the front of the album identifying each subject and occasionally including brief additional information about some of them. Most of the photographs also have a date written near them on each album page. The photographs seem to center on two woman probably sisters named Olga Williams Roby and Alma Williams Greene; the album includes two photos of Olga and multiple images of Alma and there are photographs inscribed to each of the women here. Olga apparently lived on the West Coast as the earlier of her two photographs is noted in California and the later in Seattle in 1940. One of Alma's photographs features her while at Alcorn College. There are also multiple images of Dr. Clifton Nelson one at Howard University. Four of the photographs are noted as emanating from the various subjects' time at Alcorn College now Alcorn State University in Mississippi. This combined with a final page of photographs featuring family friends one of which pictures a house in Greenwood Mississippi indicates the larger family probably emanated from Mississippi. The fact that several of the subjects attended college combined with Olga's life on the West Coast indicates at least part of this family participated in the Great Migration. unknown
1890List1301Bakersfield: C.A. Nelson 1890. Silver gelatin photograph measuring 5 ½ x 3 ⅞ inches on larger mount. Heavy wear to mount some staining to margin of photograph wear and creases and a closed tear to mat fair to good overall. An incredible image of a young African-American man finely dressed taken by the photographer C.A. Nelson around the turn of the century. No identification though someone has written “Romeo†on the verso. A remarkable and uncommon early portrait unfortunately not in the best shape. C.A. Nelson unknown
195957518Modesto CA: Stanislaus Cities -- County Advance Planning Staff Belt Printing & Lithograph Co. 1959. Oblong 4to. 11 x 8.5 in. 43 1 pp. Photo frontisp. photo illustrations colour maps some folding text illustrations throughout. Black illustrated boards photo illust. on front cover & back cover plastic comb binding as issued minor shelfwear slight bumping to couple corners still VG copy from the library of George Reed Volker 1925-2018 former World War II pilot and urban planner in California New York and Washington State. First edition of this scarce Mid-20th-Century urban planning housing report issued as a result of the 1945 California Redevelopment Act focusing on Stanislaus County including Modesto Ceres Empire Newman Oakdale Patterson Riverbank Turlock & Keyes CA. The study includes demographic and statistical maps with supporting photographs showing 20% slum housing in the Stanislaus County region higher percentage of African-American and Latino populations transient populations higher rates of Tuberculosis sexually transmitted Diseases and poor children’s hygiene and high juvenile delinquency rates all contributing to “blight.†This work outlines a number of steps and suggestions after surveying 37000 dilapidated dewellings with special impact of the construction of Highway 99 noted. Worldcat locates 7 copies; See: George Morrow The Homeowner Revolution: Democracy Land Use and the Los Angeles Slow-Growth Movement 1964-1992 2013. Stanislaus Cities -- County Advance Planning Staff, Belt Printing & Lithograph Co., hardcover
191362958Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co. 1913. 4to. 14 206 4 pp. Colour frontisp. with photo elevations and floorplans throughout. Pictorial brown publisher’s cloth cover art of California Bungalow in brown black & white white lettering chipping & lifting to lettering on front cover & spine minor darkening still VG- copy. Second edition revised & expanded of this excellent Arts & Crafts era catalogue devoted to bungalow house plans focused on the style developed to the fullest extent in California at the beginning of the 20th Century. This work showcases bungalows in Altadena Duarte Pasadena South Pasadena Santa Barbara Los Angeles and other cities in Southern and Northern California. Several of the homes also include those inspired by the aesthetic and constructed in Illinois Massachusetts New York Pennsylvania Florida and New Jersey. Of additional interest are the temporary canvas or tent homes erected and depicted as camping or summer homes. The author emphasizes the architecture of Arts & Crafts bungalow homes which merge and blend with the landscape as well as using material in the interior and exterior that appear rustic in appearance. John C. Winston Co., hardcover
196057519Modesto CA: Stanislaus Cities -- County Advance Planning Staff Belt Printing & Lithograph Co. January 1960. Oblong 4to. 11 x 8.5 in. 72 pp. With photo illustrations colour maps text illustrations throughout. Gray illustrated limp covers photo illust. on front cover plastic comb binding as issued minor shelfwear slight bumping to couple corners still VG copy from the library of George Reed Volker 1925-2018 former World War II pilot and urban planner in California New York and Washington State w/ ownership stamp on upper right corner. First edition of this scarce Mid-20th-Century urban planning housing report issued as a result of the 1945 California Redevelopment Act focusing on Stanislaus County including sections on the environmental characteristics of blight public-facility needs of blight health and welfare costs of blight police costs of blight and economic losses. This report encompasses a program to end blight. Worldcat locates 4 copies; See: George Morrow The Homeowner Revolution: Democracy Land Use and the Los Angeles Slow-Growth Movement 1964-1992 2013. Stanislaus Cities -- County Advance Planning Staff, Belt Printing & Lithograph Co., unknown
191557849Petaluma CA: Brainerd Jones Architect ca. 1915. Five linen-backed cyanotype blueprints. Oblong atlas folio. 20.75 x 12 in. floor plans and elevations w/ annotations w/in the image and embossed architect’s stamp at lower right corner of each drawing minor wear & creasing at fore-edges still VG bright exemplars. These original blueprints represent a stylish two bedroom Craftsman bungalow from noted California architect Brainerd Jones 1869-1945. This bungalow features a well appointed kitchen and pantry with built-ins and a screened porch accessible from the kitchen and bedroom. The blueprints also note that the attic was to be built as unfinished with studs framing a couple potential rooms while the built-in cabinets downstairs to frame the fireplace were to be fitted with mirrors as back-splash and sides. This Arts & Crafts home does include his distinctive flair of the roof with well defined roof line and decorative gables. Labeled by the Argus-Courier as “The man who built a city†it’s estimated that up to 80% of the historic homes and buildings in Petaluma were designed by Jones. Not located in Worldcat Sonoma County Library does have 3 similar blueprints for Craftsman home ca. 1912 & Walnut Park Utility Building; See: Dave Weinstein The Man Who Built Petaluma/ Brainerd Jones Designed Much of What is Now the City’s Historic Section SF Chronicle Jan. 13 2012; Jeff Elliott The Making of Brainerd Jones Santa Rosa History Oct. 21 2018. Brainerd Jones, Architect, unknown
193760547San Diego CA: Richard S. Requa Printed by Frye & Smith Ltd. 1937. 8vo. xiii 1 151 1 pp. printed on cream-coloured paper. With tipped-in photo frontisp. tipped-in photo plates all from photographs shot by Requa during the CPIE. Brown publisher’s linen gilt lettering front cover & spine rough-cut fore-edges as issued w/ d.j. cover art photo by Requa NF/NF copy w/ presentation inscription on ffep. from the San Diego Historical Society from the library of Prof. Marvin Nathan. First edition one of 1000 copies printed by Frye & Smith San Diego CA who were also responsible for the author’s spectacular volume on Spanish Architecture for Monolith Portland Cement Co. just 10 years earlier. Requa 1881-1941 famed San Diego architect was one of the founders of the very influential Requa & Jackson architectural firm and were the architects of choice in San Diego and Los Angeles during the booming 1920s who developed the “Southern California Architecture†style drawing upon the historical architecture of the Colonial Mexico the Pueblos of the Southwest and the Moorish features from Spain and North Africa. He later became the Master Architect for the California Pacific International Exposition of 1935-36 and preserved the buildings which are still evident in Balboa Park. Scarce in original dustjacket. Richard S. Requa, [Printed by Frye & Smith, Ltd.], unknown
195657912San Francisco: De Leuw Cather & Co. Engineers 1956. 4to. 5 ii 21 leaves 17 large folding maps vii iii ii ii ii 2 ii iv 11 leaves all on thick paper stock. Printed covers comb-binding as issued w/ presentation TLS from James W. Meyer to George Volker Director of Planning Merced California minor soiling edgewear light bumping to corners still VG- copy from the library of George Reed Volker 1925-2018 former World War II pilot and urban planner in California New York and Washington State. First edition presentation copy of this uncommon report exploring the impact of ongoing railroad lines and operations in Sacramento California following World War II by the Southern Pacific Western Pacific Sacramento Northern and the Central California Traction Company. At the time due to explosive growth in automobile ownership and poorly designed railroad crossings and roads there were many traffic delays and over 120 accidents at railroad crossings from 1950-1954. Coupled with the tremendous redevelopment plans passed by California legislature in the 1940’s and early 1950’s the solutions included relocating lines of track rerouting and rebuilding traffic and taking over blighted areas for other purposes. Worldcat locates 6 copies. De Leuw, Cather & Co., Engineers, unknown
192758420San Francisco: California Redwood Association 1927. Tall 8vo. 48 pp. Numerous colour illustrations 2 double-page colour spread of redwood stains & woods floor plans architectural renderings and more. Colour lithograph illustrated softcovers w/ colour illustration of house on front cover w/ Redwoods in the background minor soiling to foot of spine wear & minor tears to lower fore-edge some dustsoiling still G- copy stapled as issued. Second edition revised & enlarged of the designs originally selected by the Jury of Award from entries of 48 certified California Architects in Small All-Wood House Competition held by the American Institute of Architects. The elevation designs and floor plans feature redwood siding millwork and were featured as bungalows & small homes many with English Cottage and Norman Revival elements. California Redwood Association, paperback
191062002Chicago IL & Los Angeles CA: Henry L. Wilson The Bungalow Man 508 Byrne Building 1910. 4to. 159 1 pp. 100s of printed photo illustrations floorplans elevations. Red publisher’s cloth photo plate mounted front cover white lettering front cover some edgewear scuffing thumbing to fore-edges partially shaken still a G sound copy. Fifth edition of this surprisingly scarce Jazz Age brochure to southern California bungalow house plans. Wilson 1862-1953 called himself “The Bungalow Man†and published many different catalogues of bungalow designs from 1910 through the 1920s. He heavily marketed his “Wilson Bungalow†and was a significant architect in the development of the California bungalow through the influence of the Japanese aesthetic on the American Arts & Crafts Movement along with the development of the “dobe shacks†of early Californios into comfortable homelike bungalows. He also specifies in this catalogue that he would execute special plans for clients at $ 10.00 per home with a range of sizes. Of interest are the numerous illustrations of interiors Arts & Crafts inspired hardware doors and more included with the house plans. Although many institutional copies are located many of these appear to be microfilm e-version or reprint copies rather than original -- uncommon in the trade; See: Sunset the Pacific Monthly March 1913 p. 52; Los Angeles Herald Sunday Morning June 12 1910 Part III p. 2; Wilson California Bungalows of the Twenties. Henry L. Wilson, The Bungalow Man, 508 Byrne Building, hardcover
192658402Los Angeles: Rex D. Weston Architectural Designer 527 I. W. Hellman Building The Bungalowcraft Co. 1926. Oblong 4to. 11 x 8 in. 32 pp. With numerous colour plates photo illustrations floor plans. Colour-illustrated softcover w/ California plein-air style cover art of English Half-timber Tudor revival minor dustsoiling shelfwear still NF copy. First edition of this uncommonly rare and nicely illustrated architectural house plans for Southern California style two story homes drawing in Arts & Crafts Tudor & Norman Revival and cottage style elements. Weston 1884-1967 began his career as the storied “Bungalow†house designer after moving to Santa Barbara before 1908 when he opened an office with Fred Siren and established “The Bungalow Plan Co.†Later he works for the Bungalowcraft Co. which had the financial backing of lumber yard mogul Hermann August Eymann in between working as an architect and designer for the American Film Co. Weston would continue to operate the Bungalowcraft Co. plan books company until the 1950’s and his designs influenced architects designers and home builders alike. Some neighborhoods in Pasadena and environs have even applied for historic registry as part of the English Cottage Revival or Spanish Colonial Revival through extensive use of their plan books. Worldcat locates 1 copy Winterthur; See: The Bungalowcraft Company California Bungalow Homes Antique Home Style 2015; Steve Mermell Application to Designate a Portion of Annandale Road as a Landmark District June 21 2010. Rex D. Weston, Architectural Designer, 527 I. W. Hellman Building, [The Bungalowcraft Co.], paperback
19851000487Fresno: Armenian Relief Society Sophia Chapterdesigned and produced by AM/PM Publishing San Francisco 1985 First edition. Boards. Folio. Offsetting from a pressure-sensitive label on front free endpaper. Very good in price-clipped but otherwise fine d.j. Armenian English and French text. Includes bibliographical references p. 105. [Armenian Relief Society, Sophia Chapter,designed and produced by AM/PM Publishing, San Francisco, hardcover
2001LFA-126748644Une revue de 40 pages, format 165 x 235 mm, illustrée, brochée couverture couleurs, publiée en 2001, AIAPS, bon état
2000LFA-126748643Une revue de 32 pages, format 165 x 235 mm, illustrée, brochée couverture couleurs, publiée en 2000, AIAPS, bon état
190062411Los Angeles Costa Mesa Huntington Beach Fullerton San Jose Hollywood CA: Gene Sherman Leigh Peffer Briggs Cunningham Briggs Cunningham Museum Ted Wilson et al ca. 1900-1990. Five Vols. & 1 scale model. First four vols. are 4to. 82; 76; 64; 88 leaves all unnumbered. archival mylar sleeves holding 266 photographs sized from 4 x 5 in. up to 8.5 x 11 in. with over 90% sized 8 x 10 in. most are black & white silver gelatin nearly all w/ photographer’s imprint either within the negative or stamped on verso many w/ pencil & ink manuscript annotations on versos most in the bold hand of Leigh Peffer but also many w/ markings by Gene Sherman and a couple possibly Briggs Cunningham several colour negatives many colour photographs some studio others snapshot a couple 1944 Kodacolor shops of young Peffer in US Army uniform during World War II together with over 100 pieces of ephemera including racing forms postcards art brochures promotional materials Midget Car racing rules Auto and racing promotional packets ALS & TLS many on letterhead and more. Three of these 4 vols. with archival mylar sleeves held in 3-ring binders in gray and black cloth 4th vol. a flexible plastic portfolio archival mylar sleeves printed label at spine; Together with: Peffer’s “A Scrap Book of Motor Sports History. . . Peffer Collection†a Oblong folio. 13.5 x 10.5 scrapbook/photo album. 80 pp unpaginated. on thick tan paper with 150 original photographs tipped-in with corners and mounted including 12 original colour negatives many identfied additional ephemera either mounted or laid-in two colour slides several clippings laid-in at rear and mimeographed sales list. Contemporary blue board post-binder nickel-plated screw posts at gutter margin printed metallic gold label mounted front cover neat manuscript hand of Peffer on label front cover occasional edgewear toning to clippings still VG exemplar; Scale model 12 x 4 x 2.5 in. of the So-Cal Streamline racer by Gene Sherman rubber tires leather fittings for cock-pit painted as the original preserved in chamois bag NF exemplar all from the libraries of Leigh Peffer and Gene Sherman. This noteworthy and expansive archive captures the glories of automobile sporting culture in California during the first several decades of the 20th-Century assembled through the effort and passion by several significant figures in the auto-racing and sports car scene of Southern California. These include Gene Sherman 1944-2007 famed auto designer and builder Leigh Peffer 1918-2000 auto racing enthusiast sports car racer and collector and photographer Briggs Cunningham 1907-2003 famed American sportsman whose Cunningham Motors fielded race teams and built race cars for the 24 Hours of Le Mans and later the Briggs Cunningham Automotive Museum in Coasta Mesa CA which operated from 1966-1987 and finally the racing photographs of Ted Wilson famed photographer of California auto racing and race tracks during the 1920’s and 1930’s. Amidst the hundreds of photographs many pieces of ephemera race programs original letters and postcards the joy and energy of the West Coast automobile culture trace the development of automobile manufacturing and racing from the Hodge Brothers electric car manufacturing in Pasadena CA in 1900-1902 through the design and model building and car museums in the 1980’s. Peffer & Sherman sorted the photo collection into race car drivers action shots and miscellaneous which includes photographs from Ted Wilson Doinseau-Rapho Briggs Cunningham Museum Strother MacMinn Thomas Milana Studebaker Ford D.M. Woodhouse of San Diego as well as Peffer and Sherman themselves. The photographs include those of Carroll Shelby driving one of his early Cobra prototypes Rex Mays Dan DePaolao Stubby Stubelfield Bill Schuffler Johnny Parsons Bill Stepp Earl Mansell and Louis Meyer Jr. “Sonny†one of the most successful and accomplished engine builders in Indianapolis 500 history. Still others include veterans of the vaunted Legion Ascot race track in Los Angeles known as the “Killer Track†with such drivers as Howard Wilcox II Jimmie Miller Lon Webb the Robson Bros. Spider Webb Bud Rose Harris Insinger in the Miller Special Gus Schrader Roland Frost Babe Stapp in his Cragar Special April 2 1933 Tony Radeitch Woestman McDowell & Pintorelli. After the Legion Ascot became too dangerous and closed down and AAA racing moved out of the West Coast the dirt track and gritty midget cars moved elsewhere.The Southern Ascot Speedway was a racetrack located at Atlantic and Tweedy Blvd. and ran from 1937 to 1942 now site of the Legacy High School Complex. Other race tracks represented in these photos include the Gilmore Stadium Speedway including photos of the open wheel Krause Offy Offenhauser or Jimmy Miller in the pits in the Scheffler Offenhauser special at Oakland Speedway or Bill Reed and Spud Hinkley at the San Jose Speedway. The Oakland Speedway was in San Leandro CA and was a banked dirt oval built in 1931 operated through the Great Depression and featured roadster motorcycle Big Car Stock Car Midget Car races and was the “fastest dirt track in the Nation.†Another historic race track capturing racers and races was the Mines Field race track including Stubby Stubblefield in 1934 today the site lies under LAX airport. Amidst the hundreds of photos are images of the concept car U.S. Discovery speed model designed by Marshall Space Flight Center Boeing Rockwell Lockheed and Cobalt Boats engines such as the Miller-Ford Motor Ford Motor & Front End Bentleys along with a myriad of photos of famed race cars and spots cars. These automobiles include the Studebaker No. 34 driven by Tony Gulotta fitted with Stromberg carburetors mechanic Carl Rischingo placing 7th in the Indy 500 in 1934; Miller cars powered with 220 cubic in. motors; Allard Race Cars MG race cars Lester MG in 1994; 1948 MG TC 1937 Jaguar SS Bugatti 57C L.P. Breen’s 1926 Bentley the 1925 Lamda Roadster inscribed by Mark Shuttle to Briggs Cunningham the Spike Jones Special and even Peffer’s own Peerless GT at the start of a Southern California vintage sports car rally. Others capture Bill White’s Red Lion Special No. 1 Al Gordon in the Sparks-Weirick Gilmore Special No. 1 the 1934 Pacific Coast champion in Eddie Winfield’s Winfield Special 1949 Ferrari and Ralph De Palma in his Miler Special after winning the Italian Helmet Dash at the Legion Ascot Speedway in the 1920’s. Peffer’s “Scrap Book of Motor Sports History†opens with photos tickets and ephemera for the Brands Hatch Boxing Day Races Dec. 26 1959 which opened with the 10-lap Yuletide Trophy for sports cars up to 1100 C.C. and for all the races that day featured Threlfall Chapman Hill and Crab in Lotus Eleven’s and Seven’s Baillie in 3.4 Jaguar and others. He’s also included photos of his Little Riley restored in Dehham Engladnd with Cecil Cutton’s famed Bugatti next to him along with photos of the rare and famous MG Tigresse. Of particular interest amidst the many different ALS & TLS sent to both Peffer and Sherman is the lengthy and detailed 3 p. letter ALS sent to Gene Sherman at the Briggs Cunningham Automotive Museum June 26 1968 in which Sara J. Hodge of Solana Beach CA describes and explains the founding of the first and largest automobile garage West of the Mississippi by her father Nathaniel Hodge and uncle Arthur Hodge listed in the 1902 Pasadena City Directory. Later named the Hodge Brothers Co. they produced and sold electric automobiles and she has included four historic copy photographs capturing the Hodge Brothers machine shop & garage factory and even a whole bank of 1902 Hodge Bros. EV cars charging. Another letter to Sherman documents the life of Briggs Cunningham after he had sold his collection and museum contents to his friends the Colliers they moved to Naples FL and explaining how their “house is not finished as yet so I don’t believe we can move in until next year. . . I am busy with packing up the mags etc. ready to move. My new library will be larger tha the present one.†The scale model by Gene Sherman painstakingly recreates the famed So-Cal Speed Shop Streamliner. The car was built after Dean Batchelor a So-Cal Speed Shop customer sold his 1932 roadster to raise the capital and built by famed speed shop builder Alex Xydias who would take the body off the tank and subsequently build the Streamliner. Batchelor felt a small streamliner like the MG EX-135 was the best way to move forward on the design. The completed chassis was taken to Valley Custom in Burbank CA where Neil Emory one of the finest early custom craftsmen began working with aluminum to shape the Streamliner designed as a flattened oval with no compound curves. Early test runs at El Mirage ranged from 135 to 142 mph with a 156ci Flathead Ford and at the first Bonneville Nationals held in 1949 on the salt flats the So-Cal Speed Shop Special in iconic white and gold was the star of the show. In the midst of the runs they switched engines to an Edelbrock-built Mercury Engine and 190 mph. The car also achieved a 210.892 mph average a Class C Record and bagged the Hot Rod Magazine “Top Time†trophy. The next year after rolling in high winds Batchelor escaped serious injury and never raced again. Special note should be made of the Ted Wilson photographs although very little personal biographical information is known of him. He was inducted into the Sprint Car Hall of Fame shot historic racing photos during the 1920’s through 1950’s on California race tracks including Oakland Speedway Alviso Speedway San Jose Speedway at King Road mostly in a 4 x 5 format and was a pioneer in marketing his photos often running ads in racing and motoring periodicals at the time. He began purchasing other negative collections from other photographers and amateurs expanding his collection including Carroll Studio Roy Richer’s the Crest Collection and the Douthat Speed Photo collection. Eventually the entire collection was sold to Bruce Craig and Vincente Alvarez and subsequently to Jeannie Hinnershitz and Dale Snyder partner to the Florida-based Collier family which took the collection private. He maintained ongoing relationships with Leigh Peffer often writing and selling him photos Gene Sherman at the Briggs Cunningham Museum and Briggs himself. See: Lawrence Berman Kane Rogers The Cunningham Museum Briggs Cunningham 2023; Norm Bogan Ted Wilson National Spring Car Hall of Fame & Musuem 2023; Cunningham The American Dream at Le Mans Roarington Nov. 1 2023; Greg Sharp Racing History: Alex Sydias the Man Behind the Famous So-Cal Speed Shop In the Garage Media Oct. 3 2021. Gene Sherman, Leigh Peffer, Briggs Cunningham, Briggs Cunningham Museum, Ted Wilson, et al, hardcover
195053076Oakland CA & Hollywood CA: Lee’s Speed Shop; Hot Rod Magazine; Louis Hochman 3303 Cahuenga Blvd. Photographer 1950-1955. Oblong 4to. 24 leaves w/ 24 silver gelatin photos sized 7 x 10 in. up to 8 x 10 in. 4 w/ photographer’s stamps on versos 6 w/ red grease pencil markings & a couple with whiteout preparing camera-ready copy a few w/ annotations on versos still VG photos preserved in archival mylar sleeves. Recent limp black cloth post-binder gilt lettering stamped on front cover an excellent exemplar. This historic photo album records the construction and racing of Lee Chapel’s “Tornado Special†in 1952 at the Bonneville Salt Flats. Lee’s Speed Shop was one of the original members of the Dry Lakes Racers Bonneville 200 MPH Club who held their first meeting in September 1953 at the Bonneville Nationals. The “Tornado Special†was a Class C Streamliner which driven by John “Sonny†Rogers achieved a two-way average speed of 224.144 mph at Bonneville in 1952 featuring an unsprung front end torsion bars at the rear with a novel trunnion arrangement for pivoting the engine fitted with a 295 cubic in. Mercury engine equipped with a Lee’s Speed Shop “Tornado†overhead valve conversion. The front end was built from a 36 Ford and had split radius rods mounted to a tubular frame and the rear end was a reworked 1932 Ford Model A. The Tornado Special crashed in 1953 and the body was left at Bonneville while many of the parts were salvaged. Chapel 1905-1966 opened his first speed shop while sharing space with a junkyard in 1928 at 3263 San Fernando Road in LA which he later moved to 4557 Alhambra Ave. from 1933 to 1937. In 1937 he closed the shop to tour the country racing open wheel midget cars until he reopened his Lee’s Speed Shop at 1143 East 14th St. in Oakland CA. He served during World War II as a TEC4 until discharge in 1945 whereupon he resumed his Speed Shop in Oakland. Lee’s Speed Shop was a pioneer in the southern California Hot Rod scene who along with George Wight blazed the used hot rod parts trail. See: Hot Rod of the Month Man Made Tornado Hot Rod Magazine Sept. 1953 pp. 34-38; Daniel Strohl Lost Speed Shops: Bell Chapel Orr Hemmings Daily Nov. 23 2009; David Lucsko Junkyards Gearheads and Rust: Salvaging the Automotive Past p. 37; Lee Chapel Origin of a Speed Shop In: Hot Rod Magazine June 1928 p. 13; Kinne & Warner Bonneville 200 MPH Club History -- Links in a Chain 2010. Lee’s Speed Shop; Hot Rod Magazine; Louis Hochman, 3303 Cahuenga Blvd. (Photographer), hardcover
