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Monrovia Planet Building

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Artist
Edna Lenz
Description
Monrovia "Planet" Building -- The Monrovia Townsite Committee offered E.L. Buck the landsite if he would start a newspaper. Buck built this structure on East Lemon, between Myrtle and Ivy Avenues; he used the first floor as a publishing plant and lived upstairs. The first issue of "The Monrovia Pla…
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Edna Lenz
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Monrovia "Planet" Building -- The Monrovia Townsite Committee offered E.L. Buck the landsite if he would start a newspaper. Buck built this structure on East Lemon, between Myrtle and Ivy Avenues; he used the first floor as a publishing plant and lived upstairs. The first issue of "The Monrovia Planet" was printed on Saturday, November 10, 1886.
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46L
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Sierra Madre. Le Grifon Antique Shop

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Artist
Edna Lenz
Description
Antique Shop (Sierra Madre) -- On what is now the southeast corner of Baldwin Avenue and Sierra Madre Boulevard, Martin Olsen, a cobbler, opened a shoeshop in 1887. Before being torn down in 1956, it had also reportedly been a print shop, a Red Cross Headquarters, the residence of Orson Wells, a m…
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Artist
Edna Lenz
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Antique Shop (Sierra Madre) -- On what is now the southeast corner of Baldwin Avenue and Sierra Madre Boulevard, Martin Olsen, a cobbler, opened a shoeshop in 1887. Before being torn down in 1956, it had also reportedly been a print shop, a Red Cross Headquarters, the residence of Orson Wells, a mortuary, and Le Grifon Antique Shop.
Item ID
60L
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