Showing posts with label Solomon Lazard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Solomon Lazard. Show all posts
Friday, July 17, 2020

Next Webinar 8/2: French Angelenos and Early LA's Water Struggle

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Every Angeleno knows William Mulholland is credited with bringing water to Los Angeles. Few, if any, are aware that for about forty years,...
Friday, April 26, 2019

Leon Loeb and the City of Paris

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Leon Loeb was born in Alsace-Lorraine around 1845. After a stint as a bookkeeper in Switzerland, he arrived in Los Angeles in September of 1...
Friday, April 5, 2019

Behind the Scenes: Jeannette Lazard Lewin

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Jeannette Lazard - one of Solomon Lazard and Caroline Newmark Lazard's six surviving children - was born in 1866. Sixteen-year-old Je...
Friday, March 22, 2019

Eugene Meyer: A Nameplate, a Cemetery Plot, and Old LA's Best Department Store

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Eugene Meyer - another cousin of Don Solomon Lazard - was born in Alsace in 1842, and came to Los Angeles at age 21 to work for Lazard's...
Friday, March 15, 2019

Four Decades of Service: Maurice Kremer

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We've met "Don Solomon" Lazard . Today we'll meet his cousin and onetime business partner. Maurice Kremer was born in Fr...
Monday, April 9, 2018

The Most Trusted Citizen in 1850s LA was a Jewish Frenchman

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Don Solomon Lazard Imagine, for a moment, that it's the 1850s and you've just arrived in Los Angeles. Los Angeles has only be...
Monday, January 1, 2018

Excerpts from "Frenchtown! The Musical": Part 2

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If you read my first installment of this theatrical theme, you know there isn't *really* a musical about Frenchtown. My short-term obje...
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Wednesday, June 14, 2017

We're Still Here, Part 3: The San Fernando Valley

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Continuing my series on surviving places linked to Southern California's forgotten French community, we come to a place that hits close ...