People-Local Groups & Visitors :
Accession#:
2000-168
Title:
The Farlons
Date:
ca.1940s
Catalog Date:
04/26/2008
Category:
8: Communication Artifact
Classification:
People
Neighborhoods
downtown
Collection:
SBHS Photo Collection
Copyright:
SBHS
Description:
This black and white photograph is a group photo of 25 people facing the camera and one person turned away from the camera hiding his/her face behind a coat collar. A tinseled Christmas tree is in the left background. The ceiling light is decorated and there are snowman figures hanging from the ceiling at the back of the room. The venue is the Breakers Cafe which later became the Sand Dollar Restaurant. For identification of the people see the numbers on image 2000-168-02.
Event:
Christmas Party?
Film Size:
35 mm
Medium:
Photographic Paper
Negative #:
89E-3
Notes:
Breaker's Restaurant-present Sand Dollar Restaurant, not the new Breaker's on south side of Highway One.

David Rieger who lives in Washington State called and talked to Kerry Livingston, the librarian.
His grand father R. T. Brosheat owned the Breaker's Restaurant till 1962. He bought it from Johnny Walker and Jim Mar in 1950's. His parents, Frans and Adrian Rieger built houses on first left of Seadrift. His Mother, Frans, ran 5 times between 1957 to 61; father, Adrian, ran Dipsea once.

(TA 11/23/2010)
Object ID:
2000-168-01
Object Name:
Print, Photographic
Orig/copy:
Copy
People:
Courier, Norman
Farlon, Elsa
Harman, Harry
Hartman, Gloria
Hartman, Nancy
Helfrich, Earl 'Shadow'
Helfrich, Gertrude
Jewell, daughter?
Jewell, Mr.
Jewell, Mrs.
Lacaze, Hank
Smith, John
Steel, Bill
Steele, Arlene
Steele, Todd
Switzer, child
Switzer, Ira
Switzer, Marie
Place:
The Breakers Cafe, Stinson Beach
Print Size:
5" x 6 1/2"
Source:
Helfrich, Gertrude
Subjects:
People-Local Groups
Neighborhood-Downtown
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