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Historian Skip Sommer has restored many historic properties
in Marin and Sonoma Counties
including The Great Petaluma
Mill, The Riverhouse Restaurant
and Larkspur’s famed Lark Creek
Inn. Skip is an honorary member
of Heritage Homes of Petaluma
and has been the History Editor of The Petaluma Post for
20 years. He is a Realtor with
CPS/Golden Land Realty in
Petaluma. E-mail Skip at skipsommer@hotmail.com
ONE PICTURE IS WORTH 1,000 WORDS
O
n e h u n d r e d eminent eye, ear and throat
years ago, the surgeon, will visit Petaluma
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Daily
Courier
carried
an ad
of homes
had
a
bathtub
(zero
Start planning
backyard
barbeques
with
Angelo’s
A meal your
of Angelo’s
smoked
sausages
Openhis
7 days
homemade
and
tri-tip
and
New
York
steaks.
for
Lydia
Pinkham’s
Vegetable
showers)
and the sausages
average
U.S.
Lunch
Mon-Sat
11:30-2:30
is forget
welcome
any
day
of the
week!
varieties!
ourcents
homemade
or our12
catering
services.
Dinner
Mon-Sun
5:00-9:00
Compound,
which
would
wage Don’t
was just
22
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something
to do with those
num. In
Petaluma,
theRoad,
3 lead-Petaluma,
ing causes of death were 1. new attitudes.
Here are a few more exPneumonia 2. Tuberculosis 3.
amples of quick cures of the
Diarrhea.
In 1909, canned beer day: Doan’s Kidney Pills were
had not yet been invented available at Clarks Drug Store
-- but marijuana, heroin and (phone Main 1) for “dull back
morphine were all available pain, headaches, dizzy spells
over the counter! In fact, or a tired, worn-out feeling."
one Petaluma pharmacy ad- Halls Catarrh Cure offered a
vertised: “Heroin clears the “$100 reward for any case of
Complexion, Gives buoyancy catarrh that can not be cured."
to the mind and regulates the And Burdick’s Blood Bitters
Bowels.” 95% of local births “makes the blood rich, thick,
occurred at home, but The red and pure." Oh yeah!
Doctors and dentists had
Petaluma General Hospital
(ph. Main 102) provided “A no ethics problem advertisfirst class operating Room” ing their services in 1909. Dr.
and had actual “licensed phy- H. Lorentzen, on Kentucky
sician care for maternity @ Street, offered: “Special attention given to diseases of
$25 Per week.”
Dr. H. Ehrlick, “the women and children includ-
Angelo’s MeAts
through Saturday
Medical PracticeMonday
inOpen
Petaluma,
1909
at 11:30 am
by History Editor Skip Sommer
same time.
These
In New YorkSunday
City, the Open
ing electric treatment and
at 4
pmboats had
beams
of
25’
+
and there was
infamous
Harry
Thaw
was
thermal light ray." (“Thermal light ray?“) And Dr. R E. undergoing an examination No Turning Basin in 1909. It
his sanity. Thaw claimed would have been fascinating
Perking was both a “Veteri- forTM
nary Surgeon And Dentist”. the “jury acquitted him of to see those maneuvers. BackOne would hope he cleaned the murder charge on account ing-up was not an option.
Lastly, this tidbit from
his instruments well between of their belief that Stanford
1909: “Dr. Smith
McMullin
White deserved his Beautiful
fate." You Downtown
patients.
2nd floor–Overlooking
Petaluma
Meanwhile, the City of see, Mr. Thaw’s wife, the beau- is moving his furniture from
Petaluma was very busy. The tiful actress Evelyn Nesbitt 418 Washington to 28 Main
Steamer Resolute ran from was having an affair with Mr. Street, where he is fixing himPetaluma to San Francisco White, the architect who de- self up very cozily. He likes
daily. The Pacific Gas Com- signed Madison Square Gar- to have things Right.” One
den. Mr. Garden
Thaw, who knocked
panyMini
was laying
a gas line
on Fresh
Pizza
and
Saladhopes that some of the things
English St. “with a large force off Mr. White with 3 shots, the doctor had just “right”
(Deep Dish)
of men” and the Daily Cou- was subsequently committed were his skills. Those practicYour
Choice ofto 3anRegular
Toppings
insane asylum.
The case ing physicians and dentists, at
rier Newspaper
was conducthad
made
international
news that time, were just as busy as
ing a “Petaluma
ThinPopularity
Crust add $.90
the physicians are today, but
Contest" -- the Grand prize for months.
For Italian Salad
Locally again, L.H. Stone, they made their calls by horse
being a REO automobile with
Lisa lamp
Iskin-- a who “for many years has and carriage and, to facilitate
genuine acetylene
been
filling aadd
position
$750 Value." or
After
a spirited
Blue
Cheese
Wedge
$.50at the that, they had to maintain
McGuire
Pharmacy,
left for stables at their offices, as well
7 weeks, the grand prize was
awarded to Mrs. W.F. Bach- Berkely to enter a course for as at their homes.
good Monday-Saturday
1909 was a great turnmedicine."
And, “P. Sweed,
elor and the runner-up was Offer
11:30
am to Contracted
4:00 pm ing point year for the MediMrs. E.W. Young. Interesting the local capitalist,
in that, there were only 7 au- with Brainerd Jones“, the lo- cal Profession to move to the
tomobiles in town then, and cal architect, for “the creation automobile and most of the
NO women drivers as yet. In of a modern brick building first auto owners were, in fact,
other news, The Hill Opera at Main and 4th for the Rex doctors. That those early drivHouse was offering “High Mercantile Co." Meanwhile, ers also had to be good meClass Vaudeville” and J. Cory “12 loaded lumber schooners chanics was an added probwas arrested for “selling liquor are laying in wait in the stream lem. Often, the cry of “GET
to the Indians” and the “3 to berth at Camm & Hedges A HORSE!” was heard from
drunk Indians were arrested yard." I can’t imagine 12 of anxious patients, awaiting a
doctor no-show.
schooners
anchored in
for
the peace
of these
ADisturbing
PIZZA SO
GOOD
THEY
NAMED
A CITY
AFTER IT!
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wider MON-SAT,
focus, the 7first
7 AM-3PM
oyster bedsSUNDAY
were planted
in
The
Tomales
Bay
by
C.
Idleman
Now at 23 Kentucky Street of
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and
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don had just returned to Glen
Ellenis
after
2 years of travel.
provided
to It
was noted the “he has abanWhile Dining Enjoy A Beautiful View of the
you of
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a round the
T WO
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Sonoma Mountains. Deck Seating
world trip on such
a vessel
as
by
our
The Snark." (High seas, small
Available for Plane Watching. See Antiques
boat). advertisers.
Meanwhile, for the first
and Warbirds Fly In! See Helicopters, too!
time, “oil production actually
outstrips
gold
production in
Please
patronize
California!” and The Bank of
them
in the
Santa Clara
Valley
was robbed
•
Biscuits
and
Gravy
at gunpoint
of Year!
$7,000 in gold
New
• Great
Burgers
and “they
escaped
in an Auto
machine
at
full
Speed
• Eggs Benedictdown
Open Tues-Sun, 8 AM to 3 PM
the road.” “Full speed” was
•
Club
Sandwiches
probably 20 mph.
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Petaluma, CA
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April 17, 6:30 PM
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by the fountain in Petaluma’s Theater Square
BREAKFAST &
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• Omelettes
• Fish and Chips
• Full Soda Fountain
• Steak and Much More!
Be sure to bring Dad
to the airport for breakfast or brunch
on Father’s Day, June 21st!
561 Sky Ranch Drive at the Petaluma Airport – (707) 765-2900