Marilyn Slagle sent this.
Here's a little bio about my dad. I don't know the exact year my parents bought the house on 112th, but they did live there during WWII. Many friends and relatives stayed with them during the war, including Jack and Ella Linard, because of the housing shortage in L.A. at that time. They were able to pay off the mortgage on the house with tips Dad earned as a bellhop. My parents and I moved from 112th in 1959.
Marilyn
After arriving in Los Angeles in the 1920s, John B. Slagle took a job with the Los Angeles Steamship Company as the orchestra leader onboard a ship going between L.A. and Honolulu. He played the tenor banjo and steel guitar. It was an exciting time for him and he always talked about how great traveling by ship was. Later he was a bellhop at the Biltmore and San Carlos Hotels in Phoenix, Arizona and at the Stillwell Hotel in L.A. He also worked as an elevator operator at the Jonathan Club in L.A. In the 1950s he was manager of a gas/service station in L.A. near his home at 1101 W. 112th St. In the early 1960s John and his wife, Mary, had a franchise with Gingham Girl Donuts. There were two locations -- one at the SE corner of Garey and Foothill in Pomona, the other at the SE corner of Indian Hill and Arrow in Claremont. It was hard work with long hours. When the company filed for bankruptcy, they lost everything they had put in. They did manage to keep the recipe book for the donuts though. John then went to work for long-time friend, Bill Harris, who owned a music store in Ontario, California. He gave banjo lessons and repaired electronic organs and other musical instruments.
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