Can you ID these gents?

Old photo
Are they:


  1. Early L.A. stage actors
  2. Elected officials
  3. Caltech scientists
  4. Reporters at the L.A. Record, circa 1905

Answer follows.

Meet the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for 1887:
(top) T.E. Rowan, Jacob Moss, J.W. Venable (bottom) W.T. Martin, Charles Dunsmoor, Oscar Macy

Compare them to the straight-laced group from 1958.

Photo: L.A. County Online

12:55 AM Friday, July 14 2006 • Link
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