Word: shores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which creep away up into the Santa Lucia Mountains. Five miles up one cañon is a large lime kiln deserted for more than 30 years. No wagon road ever went to it. The lime was brought down from the mountain to ships at the shore by a mile-long steel cable. The trail over which I suppose burros could travel is obliterated most of the way. We first explored this cañon a dozen years ago-the kilns and a score of houses are deserted and overgrown with poison oak and empty save for bats and snakes...
...John Downey Harvey, son of Society Leader Eleanor Martin and San Francisco's chief dandy in the early 1900s. Like Dr. Roberts, he in his day cast his eyes shoreward, conceived a passenger railroad to link San Francisco and Santa Cruz, 80 mi. south. Downey Harvey incorporated Ocean Shore R. R. in 1905. Big sums were subscribed by prominent San Franciscans and construction soon began at both ends under great engineering difficulties. Then came the 1906 earthquake. Most of the subscribed money was never put up, real estate operators grabbed land. By 1909 at least...
...Legal squabbles beset the reclamation at once, the biggest coming when the State Highway District claimed the right-of-way to link it into the Carmel-San Simeon Highway. Civic clubs, chambers of commerce and the like have joined forces with the State to wrest the road from Ocean Shore R.R. Last week the battle still raged in court. Meanwhile, Downey Harvey, hav-ing lost $5,000,000 and been forced into bankruptcy, never entered business again. Convicted of fraud in 1913 for transferring $100,000 in stock to his wife before bankruptcy, Downey Harvey was cleared...
...England, and close to the top of summer theatricals, stands the Lakewood Theatre near Skowhegan. Me. Lakewood was established in 1901 to bolster up a trolley line. Herbert L. Swett had just taken charge of the five-mile line between Skowhegan and an amusement park on the shore of what was then called Hayden's Pond. On the grounds was an auditorium in which were held spiritualist meetings. Mr. Swett thought that a company of actors would encourage a larger volume of traffic for the carline, and he was right...
Also within smell of the sea are the Rice Playhouse on Martha's Vineyard, the South Shore Players at Cohasset. Inland Massachusetts offers the summer playgoer the famed Berkshire Playhouse at Stockbridge. The big show at Stockbridge this summer opened this week with experienced little Helen Ford (No Other Girl, Dearest Enemy, Peggy-Ann) in the title role of Director William Miles's new adaptation of Sacha Guitry's and Oscar Straus's musical, Mariette. Mr. Miles expected heavy attendance from Miss Ford's nearby hometown of Troy...