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Kate
10:36 PM on October 20, 2009
A beautiful site, literate and imaginative. I was born and raised in Los Angeles (born 1955) and am now living in Portland, Oregon, where many of us Angeleno ex-pats have fled. When I was 17 I used to drive around the Hollywood hills, imagining it was 1915 instead of 1972. Your site evokes a similar ache.
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Fred Cleman
12:24 PM on September 27, 2009
Wow, very interesting. I enjoyed reading the journal very much.
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Jo Anne Moore
06:11 PM on September 08, 2009
Delores, I so enjoyed your taking the time to come to Tucson yesterday and speak to the Postcard Exchange Club about Mabel Normand. I enjoyed your talk immensely and this web site is a storybook in itself that has warmed my heart. Keep up the good work.
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Donnie
10:54 PM on July 24, 2009
A lovely portrait of the land of dreams and of sweet Mabel. Thank you.
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Debbie P
01:29 PM on July 04, 2009
My writer-pal, Vickey, sent me a link to your site. You have done a wonderful job paying tribute to not only the unqiue history of the area, but also the fascinating Mabel Normand. As a writer myself who has done a lot of work on the early days of Hollywood, I am always happy to find someone else who treasures the memories.
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Vickey
10:09 AM on July 04, 2009
Great fun--I love the old postcards! It is amazing, when you look at the time frame, how quickly everything changed. I think you saw Los Angeles just before the postwar boom--must've been idyllic!
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Patricia Mechling
10:19 PM on February 19, 2009
Mother was in So.Calif.with her father, who pioneered as a showman with show shops-featuring slide and silent films-in California, the price of admission to the cinema, usually 5 cents, included olio. He made a fortune and spent it In the early 1900's. Mother remembered So.Calif.as a paradise and saw all of your wonderful postcard sights then. Also, her father was the only man to create and present a genuine Mexican bullfight performance in the U.S., at the 1904 St. Louis (World) Fair.
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Stephen Normand
01:20 AM on February 19, 2009
This site honouring my great-aunt Mabel Normand is absolutely delicious!!! Mabel would be so pleased and touched I am certain....it's almost like she did it herself....you really have done a most beautiful thing in remembering Mabel Normand in this clever , elegant way. The prose and each card accompanying are simply exquisite. Thank you and bless you. With my love and Mabel's too ! Stephen Normand - Great-Nephew of Mabel Normand
