California Here We Come... Travelogue, June 19-July 7, 1938

Summary

Abstract:

Typescript manuscript, photo album, and scrapbook chronicling the automobile trip of four women "to attend the Supreme Council, Order of Amaranth, at Los Angeles, California."

Extent:

1 volume

Language:

English .

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], California Here We Come... Travelogue, MC318, Archives and Special Collections, UC Davis Library, University of California, Davis.

Background

Scope and content:

Typescript manuscript, photo album, and scrapbook chronicling the automobile trip of Lillian E. Wickline Dalziel, Frances Elizabeth Richmond Hurlbut Ostrom, and two other women in Frances's 1937 Plymouth Special "to attend the Supreme Council, Order of Amaranth, at Los Angeles, California."

This detailed manuscript recounts the automobile adventures of four Oregon women in the summer of 1938 as they trekked to the Order of Amaranth Convention in Los Angeles, California. The four women, with Frances Hurlburt (1886-1963) as driver along with Maude, Anny serving as treasurer, and Lillian as the trip's documenter, set out from Peacock Lane in Portland, and began with a trip past Mount Hood. They picnic in a Bend at the Deschutes River Park, pass through the Klamath Indian Reservation, Crater Lake Junction and visit Crater Lake National Park, and spent the night at the Link River Auto Camp in Klamath Falls, OR. The four had to stop in Alturas "at the Department of Motor Cars for our permit to drive in California." On their way to stay at Pomin's Tahoe Park Cabins at Lake Tahoe, they stopped "to sort of scare our husbands, we mailed them cards which would bear the Reno post-mark."

After stops to visit relatives in Sacramento, driving through miles of vineyards and wineries on the way through Stockton, Manteca, and Modesto, they headed to Yosemite. They enjoyed their visit to the Winona Indian Village, Bridal Veil Falls, El Capitan, drove past the Mariposa Grove Museum, and finally onto Fresno and Bakersfield. Lillian writes about the lemon and walnut groves along Sepulveda Blvd. in Los Angeles, the Pepper Trees near the National Soldier's Home on Wilshire, and enjoyed their dinner at the Marcie Bernardino's Cafe with a ship's interior for decor.

The group continued on South to San Diego, and Tijuana, Mexico, with stops at the Madam Schumann-Heink's Townhouse restaurant, and remarks that "Reno has nothing on Mexico for divorces. One can obtain his freedom here for $ 1.00, and the divorce is granted while one waits." After staying at the Five Points Auto Court, they return onto Los Angeles. Their stay in Los Angeles includes sleeping at the Biltmore, attending "services at the Angelus Temple, conducted by Aimee Semple McPherson." She also writes about dining at the El Encanto, Catalina restaurant, tours of Hollywood & Beverly Hills, and included her ribbon as delegate to the 41st Annual Assembly. She also recounts eating at La Golondrina Casa on Olvera St. in Los Angeles, and an account of visiting the Amaranth Home for Girls in Los Angeles, founded and operated by Lady Della Weibers, providing vocational training. The foursome return home via a long drive along the Pacific Coast route, where they spend three nights in San Francisco, visited Golden Gate Park, the Zoo, and again set out with stops in Crescent City, drove the Redwood Highway, and eventually to Portland again.

Dalziel (1870-1957) was a longtime Portland area dressmaker and seamstress, whose husband William Dalziel (1871-1956) was a machinist, Union rep, and later local Portland politician. The manuscript concludes with an expense account of the trip, beginning with $ 100.00 detailing gas, lodging, Yosemite Park entrance fee, and finally finishing with a balance of .22¢ left over after 3166 miles.

[Description provided by Zephyr Books]

Acquisition information:

Purchased from Zephyr Books, 2021.

Processing information:

Liz Phillips created this finding aid with information supplied by Zephyr Books.

Physical location:

Researchers should contact Archives and Special Collections to request collections, as many are stored offsite.

Physical facet:

142 pages (assorted pagination and numbering), including 25 leaves of typescript manuscript, the remainder including 8 tipped-in snapshot photographs, 20 postcards, 3 real photo postcards, several color drawings, and numerous carefully trimmed travel brochures and clippings. Contemporary flexible black cloth 3-ring binder, tissue guards to first and last leaves (some tape reinforcement to a few leaves at gutter margin, reinforcement to hole punches, minor toning, a couple of the thick leaves w/ minor closed tears). 8vo.

Rules or conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Women -- California -- History

Places:

California -- Travel

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

All applicable copyrights for the collection are protected under chapter 17 of the U.S. Copyright Code. Requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Regents of the University of California as the owner of the physical items. It is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], California Here We Come... Travelogue, MC318, Archives and Special Collections, UC Davis Library, University of California, Davis.

Location of this collection:

UC Davis, Special Collections

University of California, Davis, Special Collections, UC Davis Library

100 NW Quad

Davis, CA 95616-5292, US

Contact:

(530) 752-1621

speccoll@ucdavis.edu

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