"Big Apple" antedating

[Joel S. Berson]

At 1/25/2008 04:02 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>Los Angeles was
>pretty much still a backwater, in the 'Twenties.

Good point.  When an uncle went to Los Angeles as one of Bob Hope's
gag writers in the 1840's, they remarked how it was all orange groves.

Joel

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