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Chautauqua
Years Home | Museum Home
Birdseye
View of Pacific Grove | City
Departments | Chautauqua
Early
Businesses | The
Faces of Chinatown | Feast
of Lanterns
Growing
up in the Grove | Grand
Army of the Republic | Gardens
in the Grove
Hazards
of the Rocky Shores | A
City of Homes | Hopkins
Seaside Laboratory
Mammoth
Stables & Horses | Hotel
to Holman's | Lovers
Point
RLS'
Old Pacific Capital Quote | Pacific
Grove People
The
First Pledge of Allegiance | Pacific
Grove on Track | C.K.
Tuttle
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Photo by C.W.J. Johnson, from the Museum's collection.
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The Mammoth Stables, located between Laurel
and Pine at Grand, was built in 1884 by Joseph O. Johnson, one
of the town's earliest residents. He came to Pacific Grove in
the late 1870s, and became one of its most active businessmen,
serving as the superintendent for the Pacific Improvement Company.
He purchased the only livery stable in town from the PI Co.,
and replaced it with one of California's largest livery businesses.
The tower stood 80 feet high, and the building could accommodate
nearly 100 horses. In 1888, Johnson sold the business to H.E.
Kent. On February 19, 1909, the stables burnt to the ground,
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Stable employees pose for a group portrait.
c. 1890. From the Museum's collection.
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PI Co.'s real
estate agent T.W. Cook holds bridle of gray speckled horse at
Lighthouse & Grand.
White building in background is the PI Co.'s office, replaced
by an eyebrow-windowed building at the same location around 1900.
c. 1890. #20.1-078-AP, from the Museum's Tuttle
Collection.
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Two young women
pose during a carriage drive.
c. 1908. #13.0-420-PAL, from the Museum's Tuttle
Collection.
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Looking up Grand
Avenue towards the stables.
The El Carmelo Hotel and its cottages are in the foreground.
c. 1890. From the Museum's collection.
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These two views
of Lighthouse Avenue were taken 15 minutes apart by C.K. Tuttle
on June 4, 1901.
The photograph at the left (#25.1-382-BPA), was shot at 9:05
a.m., and shows Fred Cope's white
horse & wagon in front of his plumbing shop on the south
side of Lighthouse (1).
The photo on the right (detail from #25.2-383-BPA) shows the
same horse, still
attached to the driverless wagon, across the street, drinking
from the horse
fountain in front of the Pacific Improvement Company's office
(2).
Both images are from the Museum's Tuttle Collection.
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Bronze statue
by Pacific Grove artist Jesse Corsaut of livery & stable
owner J.M. Gardner,
whose business was at 212-216 Fountain Avenue (courtesy of the
Pacific Grove Public Library).
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Page created August 24, 2005. Last updated September 7, 2005.
Page copyright 2005 by the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History.
Photos from this online exhibit may not be used without permission
of the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History. |