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861 E. Leadora. Chris and Dorchen. 1937?
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Blow-Up
of Above 1937?
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Observatory at 861 E. Leadora 1939
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A telephone conversation with Dorchen on June 6 revealed the following memories of hers.
Heinz may have been an amateur astronomer, but he was quite studied and serious. He really wanted to be one. He would take her up a dirt road to Mount Wilson and talk with astronomers up there and she thinks he could keep up with them and talk at their level.
She says Glendora was a magical place to live during the 30s and 40s. It was absolutely dark and you could see to the ocean. They could see the Milky Way. She would sleep in an iron bed on the roof of the observatory all summer as a girl. Her parents were always out and would come home at 2 or 3 in the morning from some party and to unwind they would come up to the roof to look through the telescope. He would be dressed in a tuxedo and her mother in a sequence gown and they would bring a box to Dorchen and say, "Here darling, I've brought you a taste of squab (or some such thing she had never tasted before)."
Apparently Heinz was able to obtain the telescope for free or very little because there was a flaw in the mirror, but Dorchen cannot remember the brand name. She thinks she remembers it was a 12 or 14 inch.
Heinz had always wanted to get a clock on it for tracking and Dorchen remembers how quickly the moon would leave the field of view because they didn't have one.
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861 E. Leadora 1939
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The picture is of Heinz Rubel (right) with George Brace, who used to run the Silent Ranch in Glendora, is one of my favorites. They're aboard George Brace's power boat in Los Angeles Harbor. -Chris Rubel
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Blowup of above over Heinz' left shoulder
for purposes of recognition of the area.
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Chris, Michael Dorothy, Dorchen Rubel 194?
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Dorothy and Michael 1943?
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Michael Rubel 1941?
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Glendora 193?
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#9:
Heinz Rubel Obituary Dec.
4, 1946
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#10:
Pastor's Wife Dances Nov. 24, 1928
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#11:
Pastor's Wife is Ex-Show Girl Jan.
29, 1936
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#12:
Minister in Tin Pan Alley, Sept.
15, 1933, The Newark Advocate & American Tribune
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#13: Berwyn, Illinois 1930 Census
Dorchen
must not have been named yet as she is listed as Dorothy D.
also.
In the "value of house" column, other houses were worth $6,000 to $17,000, but Heinz wrote "rectory."
Rubel, Henry S., 32, white from Ohio, Father: Illinois, Mother: Penn. Eps. Priest. "Are you a veteran?" Y "What war or expedition?" NW
Rubel, Dorothy D., 25, white from Colorado, Father: Nebraska, Mother: Wisconsin, teacher private school
6732 34th St.Heinz was in the Navy in WWI, a radio operator, first aboard a submarine and later a mine-layer, The U. S. S. Shawmut (later the Oglala, which was sunk at Pearl Harbor). And at the end of the war, he was on the Shawmut doing mine-sweeping, all in the North Atlantic. He had the fastest code speed in the Navy for a time in 1917-1919, I think, but I can't find records of that. The bug he used is up at the Pharm. I think that's where I last saw it. --Chis Rubel
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