People & Places Tours: Anna's Company
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People & Places Tours:
Rogues or royals? Historical legends or misfits? Landmarks with secret stories? Historian Carol Olten explores novel and unfamiliar stories about some of La Jolla’s distinctive people and places in a new series of guided walking tours presented by the La Jolla Historical Society.
Tour participants will meet Olten at each of the sites for visual programs and discussions of singular – and often surprising! – looks at some of the people and places shaping La Jolla history from dubious guests at the Green Dragon Colony to a female aerialist who regularly descended to the beaches from the skies with a pet monkey in the late 19th century. Visit the LJHS website for tickets, $10 for members and $20 for non. Each tour will be about an hour and a half.
Details:
Duration: Approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes
When: Thursday, February 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Where: Meet in front of Eddy V’s, 1270 Prospect Street
Anna’s Company
Green Dragon Colony founder Anna Held was known for gathering a boho amazement of artists, writers and actors around her rustic clutch of cottages at the corner of Cave and Prospect streets in the 1890s. We revisit the site around the memorial sign in front of Eddy V’s and even visit a surprise ruin! Get ready for gossip of more than you might want to know about Madame Modjeska, Ellen Terry, Rose Hartwick Thorpe, Lord Huberon and a pair of antique Parisian dolls named Olive Haps and Mishaps.