1 A RICHARD WOLFFERS (above) The Pacific Grove Hotel, formerly the El Carmelo, was on Lighthouse Avenue in Pacific Grove where Holman's store is now located. The photo was taken about 1895. The hotel wos constructed in 1884 and torn down in 1918-it had 100 rooms. a huge dining room that seated 1800 people, a small winter dining room and a large bakery. Copposite) A horse drawn bus awaits passengers in front of W. O. Johnson's lovely white house, Charles K. Tuttle's first drug store and a tobacconist's shop in Pacific Grove on a sunny day in 1890. activities at one time. If you did not belong to the Methodist church, you did not belong. That attitude has changed. It had to. . . ."The advent of the Army and Navy - taking the place of the fish industry is something to really think about because so much has been invested in real estate." Carrie Georgina had come to Pacific Grove with an invalid husband in 1924. He died shortly after, as a result of an auto- mobile accident, leaving her with a small boy, Lionel, to support. First, she thought she might start a nursery school but she abandoned those plans when the opportunity to work at the Pine Grove sanitarium presented itself. Her husband laughs: "She wanted to take care of children, so I gave her the opportunity with my four." Of her former employer, Dr. Hart, Mrs. Ryan speaks with fondness: "He and Mrs. Hart used part of their house at 649 Lighthouse Avenue to help out folks, from young babies up, who needed medical attention for a few days and could not get to the county hospital which at that time was not very attractive." It was Dr. Hart, too, who with W. R. Holman was respon- sible for the Pacific Grove cut-off, the road to the Carmel hill. "Dr. Hart and Mr. Holman," Mrs. Ryan recalls, "walked that way every day, to establish the route for the road from Pacific Grove to Carmel hill." She might look up, still with those sparkling delphinium blue eyes, from a letter that she is writing to a relative in England, and continue on her reminiscences of Pacific Grove: "Another old house which is so much a part of Pacific Grove to us 'oldtimers' is the more formal home of Judge Jorgenson whose son is now our city attorney. It must have been built by the late Judge about eighty years ago-a grand family home, compared to the little old houses built on the tent sites for summer renters. "Recently it seemed to disappear into thin air. Another blank space for awhile-now another modern professional building is on the way-a neighbor to the Canterbury Woods retirement homes. "They, incidentally, are built on the site of what once was a retirement home for Episcopalian ministers. I believe it *was called Tennant home after its donor. The Jorgenson home had POSTAGE STAMP SHOP THE MALL --- SAN CARLOS STREET CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA Now Playing "MISTER ROBERTS" RESTAURANT and THEATRE LUNCH DAILY EXCEPT MONDAY DINNER 6:30-7:30 - SHOW 8:30 ON FRIDAY, SATURDAY Dolores Bet. AND SUNDAYS ONLY ... Oce,3 n & 7th Reservations please - 624-1661 Carmel aeee;e©*e@eepee@***r<:*@*2**@22*04*22.2******¢% FLY on YOUR SCHEDULE CHARTER PHONE 372-8048 DEL [TIOOT{ AVIATIOn, inc. SERVING THE PENINSULA FOR TWO DECADES STUDIO .'92!ft-'1. .1 . .., , OCR Text: 1 A RICHARD WOLFFERS (above) The Pacific Grove Hotel, formerly the El Carmelo, was on Lighthouse Avenue in Pacific Grove where Holman's store is now located. The photo was taken about 1895. The hotel wos constructed in 1884 and torn down in 1918-it had 100 rooms. a huge dining room that seated 1800 people, a small winter dining room and a large bakery. Copposite) A horse drawn bus awaits passengers in front of W. O. Johnson's lovely white house, Charles K. Tuttle's first drug store and a tobacconist's shop in Pacific Grove on a sunny day in 1890. activities at one time. If you did not belong to the Methodist church, you did not belong. That attitude has changed. It had to. . . ."The advent of the Army and Navy - taking the place of the fish industry is something to really think about because so much has been invested in real estate." Carrie Georgina had come to Pacific Grove with an invalid husband in 1924. He died shortly after, as a result of an auto- mobile accident, leaving her with a small boy, Lionel, to support. First, she thought she might start a nursery school but she abandoned those plans when the opportunity to work at the Pine Grove sanitarium presented itself. Her husband laughs: "She wanted to take care of children, so I gave her the opportunity with my four." Of her former employer, Dr. Hart, Mrs. Ryan speaks with fondness: "He and Mrs. Hart used part of their house at 649 Lighthouse Avenue to help out folks, from young babies up, who needed medical attention for a few days and could not get to the county hospital which at that time was not very attractive." It was Dr. Hart, too, who with W. R. Holman was respon- sible for the Pacific Grove cut-off, the road to the Carmel hill. "Dr. Hart and Mr. Holman," Mrs. Ryan recalls, "walked that way every day, to establish the route for the road from Pacific Grove to Carmel hill." She might look up, still with those sparkling delphinium blue eyes, from a letter that she is writing to a relative in England, and continue on her reminiscences of Pacific Grove: "Another old house which is so much a part of Pacific Grove to us 'oldtimers' is the more formal home of Judge Jorgenson whose son is now our city attorney. It must have been built by the late Judge about eighty years ago-a grand family home, compared to the little old houses built on the tent sites for summer renters. "Recently it seemed to disappear into thin air. Another blank space for awhile-now another modern professional building is on the way-a neighbor to the Canterbury Woods retirement homes. "They, incidentally, are built on the site of what once was a retirement home for Episcopalian ministers. I believe it *was called Tennant home after its donor. The Jorgenson home had POSTAGE STAMP SHOP THE MALL --- SAN CARLOS STREET CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA Now Playing "MISTER ROBERTS" RESTAURANT and THEATRE LUNCH DAILY EXCEPT MONDAY DINNER 6:30-7:30 - SHOW 8:30 ON FRIDAY, SATURDAY Dolores Bet. AND SUNDAYS ONLY ... Oce,3 n & 7th Reservations please - 624-1661 Carmel aeee;e©*e@eepee@***r<:*@*2**@22*04*22.2******¢% FLY on YOUR SCHEDULE CHARTER PHONE 372-8048 DEL [TIOOT{ AVIATIOn, inc. SERVING THE PENINSULA FOR TWO DECADES STUDIO .'92!ft-'1. .1 . .., , Heritage Society of Pacific Grove,Historical Collections,Names of People about town,Q through R File names,Ryan,RYAN_016.pdf,RYAN_016.pdf 1 Page 1, Tags: RYAN_016.PDF, RYAN_016.pdf 1 Page 1