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(Photo: Below, the Coastside madam, Maymie Cowley, posing in front of her other place, today known as the Miramar Beach Inn.)

From the Half Moon Bay Review, 1923

“Jose Antone Azevedo and Mary B. F. Azevedo, his wife, have filed an eviction against [Coastside madam] Maymie Cowley, A Picchi, et al, former and present operators of hotel property at Granada, alleging that they have failed to pay the plaintiffs in accordance with the terms of their contract. The complaint recites that the defendants purchased the property under a contract on September 21, 1921, to a total price of $3000. After making a payment down, the balance was to be paid in monthly installments of $100 each.

“It is alleged that no payment has been made since October 1, 1922. payments for succeeding months belng allowed to lapse.

“In addition to an order of eviction th eplaintiffs demand $500 attorney’s fees. The complaint was filed in the Superior Court by Attorney Vincent W. Hallinan of San Francisco.”

Yep, I was there.

Are these celebrating folks looking at the lone house in the background? Is the second photo the same house? And is it the “Wheeler House?”

In 1992 I received snail mail from Marjorie Borda. “Is the ‘Wheeler House’ still standing in Montara,” she asked me. “And, if so, who lives there?”

The area was called Farallone when Marjorie Borda was born in the Wheeler House in 1912. Marjorie’s dad, Williard Scott, was the Ocean Shore Railroad’s Farallone station agent and Scott wanted to buy the home.

As a little girl, Marjorie played with the Abbott children who lived in the “Abbott House.” She wondered, “Are any of the Abbotts still living in Montara?”

There’s more to this story, and it involves a strange coincidence as well as lives that overlap. Continue reading “……..Montara: Look Closely……..Is this the Wheeler House?”

Legendary fruit from Frog Hollow Farm, click here

See it for yourself at the Ferry Building in the City……

We just rented an “on demand” movie (“Flawless” with Demi Moore/Michael Caine) and were shocked/stunned to see it cost $10.99!!!! That’s DOUBLE the PRICE that it was just a few days ago.

(Courtesy Leon Kunke)

…..Look hard, they are fishies…..

Meet Watercolorist Carole Brehm

at M Coffee on Main Street, HMB: Friday, March 14…at 6 PM

650.726.7136

That’s what I was told. (The photo was definitely taken in Moss Beach: everything is embraced by the fog.)

Notice, also, the way the chairs are made, the arts & crafts look, and compare them with the photo in the post below about Fanny Lea & Frank Torres. In the first photo of that post, the woman stands in front of a fence that strongly resembles the chairs in this post occupied by Mr. Wienke and his dog friend. Who made the chairs and the fences?

Feed & Fuel in the 1970s. Photo by Jerry Koontz

Purissima

Doherty Richard, postmaster and saloon

Lammle F. & Co., blacksmiths

Rhode & Co., general merchandise

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San Gregorio

Is 26 miles by stage from San Mateo, on the Southern Pacific Railroad.

Day D. C., blacksmith

Keep E., saloon

Levy, postmaster

LEVY BROS, general merchandise

Moore Mrs., saloon

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