Los Angeles June 30, 1936 - Irvin Wineland

 Los Angeles CA

June 20, ‘36

Dear Bro and All:

I rec’d your letter this morning and as I’m down with a terrible cold in fact, I’ve walked the floor from 2 o’clock on. It’s in my head and I’ve just used everything, but I’m going down to our Dr. today and have some light infra Red Ray treatments that’ll help dry it up.

So you’re in Ore – I was wondering why you hadn’t answered my letter and was also sent a present to the Babe, have you gotten it?

Well compress put through the bonus finally. I’ve 633.00 coming. We’d better get it now, for if we wait till ’45 we’d have less than a hundred coming – of course we won’t be able to cash them till June 15^th –

Well Archie, as I wrote you that work was pretty slow here on the coast – that if one is lucky and can land a job, all well and good but it’s tough if on can’t. I took several civil service examinations – one in the US Postal Service, if I get on, I’ll certainly be glad as it starts out with from 150 to 170- a month. Now if you are planning on being up there this Summer I’ll sure come up and possibly we can take a jaunt fishing.

Well we have been fortunate here as to liquir as we have a broker friend who gets us any kind of whiskey or Gin or Rum as wholesale price for instance we and some friends got a case of Old Quaker Whiskey at $1.49 a qt. and it retails as 2.08 so our drinks don’t cost a great deal. I got a bottle of Teacher’s Highland Cream Scotch for 2.70 a fifth that’s 8 years old.

But we don’t dink a great deal, and I think one is better off not to, too much I had sort of planned on taking a trip back to the Grand Mesa Country in Colo with a friend here – he’s been all over Colorado – he’s a great fly fisherman and dess that in the back country there, it can’t be beat.

I have also another friend here in LA who might get a proposition from a party who has just made $40,000 on a deal to go up in Idaho and operate a placer claim that has been offered him and he wants me to go with him, if he gets the job said he pay me wages and expenses so if he does I’ll sure get you on if you want me to. It’ll pay around 5 or 6 dollars a day. I have a very good friend in Walla Walla who works in the Post Office there, that I knew in the Army – he possibly might be able to get or know of something for you.

I suppose that all the folks were well when you saw them?

I thought about getting a new car, but I’d rather have a little bit laid away for a rainy day than a new car. We have a Wilys (?) Knight 30 model it gets us anywhere with a minimum expense and I’ve had it repainted, so it doesn’t look so bad.

How did the babe and Mabel stand the trip, I suppose that you hit some cold weather, or Maybe that cold spell was after you got out to Ore.

Now don’t wait to write, as long as you did the last time please.

Her’s hoping you can land a good position of some kind soon, Archie – and hope that you folks all keep well –

 

Your loving bro

Irvin

1726 – 7^th Ave LA

Irvin Wineland 1933

 

326 ½ So Spring St
Los Angeles

Mar 12, 1933

Dear Bro and wife:

Well I expect that you’ll be somewhat surprised to hear from me but I have been moving around quite a bit the last few years. I came down from Portland the Spring of 1930 and worked in Oakland and San Francisco till last fall I came down her to L.A. I have been trying to get something steady but things have been bad here too.

I suppose you have heard about the big earth quake we had here Friday evening at 5:55 PM I was on a street car but it rocked like a boat about a dozen towns from 4000 population to 100,000 like Long Beach are all laid to waste approximately 50 million dollars damage – stores 6 to 8 stories just crumbled and people are living in tents – but LA didn’t get the blunt of the shock but still large plate glass windows were broken and lots of bricks and stones came off buildings here.

How are everybody and how have you and Mabel been – how is grandfather White? Also all the rest of the folks?

I tied up all my money two years ago in a gold mine and I sure have been short of cash, but I manage to get along and one of these days I’ll be sitting on top yet. I have just located an old lost mine here in So California that the early Indians took lots of gold out of and finally they and the mine disappeared but I have located an old hill Billie living like a hermit way up in an out of the way place about 125 miles North of LA in the coast range and he’s sure enough located it – I am just waiting till the snow gets off so we can pack up to it and stake out all that ground and we’ll file on it and proceed to develop or sell it as I have several mining co’s who would grab it in a minute, so I am just waiting for time and I have an hunch, Archie, that I’ll come out OK so if I manage to get my hands on plenty of money, why you’ll probably will see me sometime this summer or Fall as I would like to drive on through to see the Chicago World’s Fair.

Now write folks and tell me all the news and lets try to keep in touch with each other, I know that I wrote a letter to you and I never did get any answer – I couldn’t quite understand?

To ever Your loving bro

I G Wineland

326 ½ So Spring St

Los Angeles