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Friends of the Project

We are happy to share some of the pictures submitted and taken by the editors of the Los Angeles Flower Market history book project. Click here to see a few of the historical photos, visit our About page to view a slideshow of people we've interviewed or met during our research phase, or just scroll below to see some of the people we've interviewed.

Bob and Bud Berry selling flowers in 1934.   Mailing updates about the project

Above left, Bob and Bud Berry selling flowers in 1934.

  Mailing book project updates, August 2007

Victor Levy, well known florist, 2007

Victory Levy, 2007
Los Angeles area florist

Click here to see historical photos submitted for the project.

Los Coyotes Country Club meeting

Above, an informal lunch with (from left) Hardwig (Harvey) Prechtl,
Jon Prechtl, Bob and Stella Berry, Johnny Mellano in July 2007

Edgar Engert, 2007   Joe Franciosi, 2007

Above left, Edgar Engert with one of several floral industry photo displays
he created at the Flower & Garden Show, 2007 San Diego County Fair;
on the right, Joe Franciosi with bonsai tree.

Maria Mellano, July 2007   Paul Ecke III and project manager Peggi Ridgway, 2007

Above left, Maria Mellano, whose husband Giovanni founded today's Mellano Company.
On the right is Paul Ecke III of Ecke Ranch with book project manager Peggi Ridgway

 

Above, left, Sylvia Foltz, daughter of C.J. Groen (founder of Groen Rose Company),
meets with project writer Jan Works. Above right, Sylvia Foltz, her grandson and his children
(descendants of C.J. Groen) beside C.J. Groen's original truck used to haul flowers from his
greenhouses to the Market. Spring 2007.


 

Left, Nick and Flora Mae (Gorin) Gandolfo, in their home in Artesia, 2007. Above, John and Norman Amling in a field of stock at their Desert Grown Cut Flowers (Amling Brothers), 2002, in the Coachella Valley, CA.

 


Left, book project manager Peggi Ridgway conducts research in the publications archives of Branch Smith Publishing, publisher of the now inactive Southern Florist and Nurseryman magazine, Fort Worth, Texas, May 2007.
     

 

 

 

 

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