The Hartley House in San Diego, California, corner of 4th and Nutmeg on 2720 Fourth Ave, probably in the early 1940's. from my personal collection |
Saturday, January 11, 1969, San Diego Union (San Diego, CA), p 34, GenealogyBank.com |
Some of the groups who used the Hartley House facilities included a large array of local social groups (a sample of mentions in the San Diego Union follow, searching GenealogyBank):
Nov 1940
- Catholic Boy Scouts attended the annual diocesan Scout meeting
- American Legion San Diego Post 6 Women's Veterans' luncheon (there was a dance later in honor of Armistice Day in the War Memorial Building, including several combat divisions and a large navy group)
Dec 1940
- Lioness Club meeting for "holiday entertainment and inexpensive gifts" as well as an officers' election
Feb 1941
- Mt. Hermon-Northfield club (Mt. Hermon school for boys alumni) annual dinner
- Author Judy Van der Veer was speaker for the San Diego Writers club luncheon meeting
Apr 1941
- Mr. and Mrs. Will G. Cook, who split their living between San Diego in the winter and a lake home near Oshkosh, Wisconsin, were sent off by a group of their Unitarian church friends before they drove off
May 1941
- Tau Eta Gamma had a Mother's Day Dinner
Jun 1941
- Last supper of the year for the Literature department of the Ocean Beach Women's club
Nov 1941
- Members of the San Diego Speakers club gave 5-6 minute talks at a meeting
Dec 1941
- A luncheon for the Woman's auxiliary to the San Diego County Dental society
Jan 1942
- 60 delegates from 15 chapters of the Federation of State Societies held annual session and election
- Speakers for the California Business Educators' associaton on the education needs of county, city, and federal civil service
Mar 1942
- A "Dutch lunch" for the book review section of the San Diego Women's Club
Apr 1942
- Retirement party for an employee Mrs Lutie J. Stoppleman of the San Diego county auditor's office (likely a co-worker of George)
- "Life in Samoa" lecture from Mrs. J.E. Sanner, who had lived in Samoa 2 years, at the San Diego Business and Professional Women's club dinner
May 1942
- Gamma Xi sorority held a Mother's Day luncheon
- San Diego County Chaplains association, Order of Eastern Star luncheon
Aug 1942
- Round Table Group listened to Mrs. Robert Harris, who gave "glimpses of high spiritual aims and atmosphere pervading" camps at Idyllwild and Oxford University
Oct 1942
- Luncheon of the Ladies auxiliary, Painting and Decorating Employers association
Nov 1942
- The president of the California Educators' association of San Diego county presided over a meeting that included a discussion, "Wartime TRaining for Commercial Position," by a US employment official, Miss Ruth Kenoffel
Newspaper ad for a waitress (Thursday, November 12, 1942, San Diego Union (San Diego, CA), p 23, GenealogyBank.com) |
Jan 1943
- Katherine E. Corbett, San Diego State college faculty, lectured the Writer's Club about "Trends in Children's Literature."
- Dinner for the San Diego branch of the California Fraternal Congress
Feb 1943
- Monthly luncheon and board meeting of the San Diego P.E.O. Reciprocity bureau
Mar 1943
- Luncheon, discussion "Problems of Young Women in Industry," as well as a short musical for the San Diego Alumnae chapter of Alpha Phi International sorority
- Lecture by Ben Rogers on "Bolivian, the Roof Garden of South America" for the San Diego Speaker's club
Jun 1943
- Clothing donation drive campaign center for the "hard-pressed Russians" with a goal of 60,000 lbs (the donations were only up to 14,000 lbs as of Jun 16), run by a daughter of the US ambassador to Russia. Donations could be left at "Shell, Standard or Associated gasoline stations," or at the Hartley House
Going out of business: newspaper ad for selling restaurant equipment (Monday, July 26, 1943, San Diego Union (San Diego, CA) p 16, GenealogyBank.com) |
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