Magnum Mania!

Steve wrote:Again, RG your are a treasure on this site. I did some quick research on Edward S. Shepard and from what I could find in the little time I had is that he was a railroad baron in Chicago. If he lived on Sheridan Road around the turn of the century he was probably in the neighborhood I lived in for 5 years when I first moved to Chicago from Minneapolis in 1983. I was in a high rise located where one section of the famous Edgewater Beach Hotel was situated.
http://www.edgewaterhistory.org/ehs/loc ... each-hotel
Sheridan Road is the street that runs on the west side of the hotel, Lake Shore Drive now runs on the east side of where the "X" shaped building still stands as apartments (for you football fans, Papa Bear Hallas lived in that building until he died). There were mansions along Sheridan road all the way up to Evanston where Northwestern University is located. Wow, how would you like to have Ms. Anderson's lineage!

Rembrandt's Girl wrote:For any interested history buffs, here's a bit more of Eve's history...


This is Eve's grandmother Julia Shepherd Grossman (later Wall) holding Eve's mother Eva. (Society column from the Honolulu Star Bulletin, March 14, 1914)

Part of the caption reads, "Mrs. Grossman was recently hostess at a large and very beautiful tea at the Country Club".



A few years later they would move to the home on Nuuanu Ave. (I posted about above), but not before it burned to the ground just before completion:

(Thrum’s Hawaiian Annual 1915)
"FIRE RECORD.

Honolulu has been favored with another year of comparative
freedom from disastrous fires, the most serious being that of
Dr. Grossman's fine new residence in upper Nuuanu, undergoing
its finishing touches, April 25th, which was gutted by fire, pos-
sibly from spontaneous combustion. Loss about $15,000."


But as we know they rebuilt it, and held a lavish housewarming party:

(Honolulu Star Bulletin February 10, 1917)



(Honolulu Star Bulletin February 17, 1917 - in the paper the very next day!)






The home is very close to the Oahu Country Club, where they were members (http://www.oahucountryclub.com/club/scr ... DN=HISTORY)

Today that portion of Nuuanu Ave. is the Pali Hwy.:



Here's a pic of Eve's grandfather, Dr. Moses Grossman, we haven't seen before...




They also had a Kahala home "in the country":

(Honolulu Star Bulletin December 29, 1917)

Work The Lock wrote:Wow, Amazing research finds, RG!

Rembrandt's Girl wrote:I knew you would find that interesting, KENJI!

I remember she used to have get-togethers at Pahonu with a group of friends/swimming club (?), and they'd swim to Rabbit Island & back for fun.

I also just saw a comment on social media (Lenkov's Instagram account actually) and a tourist/fellow MPI fan said that during a visit to Pahonu in 2012 she saw Eve climbing her coco palms to get coconuts!

Sam wrote:

Rembrandt's Girl wrote:I knew you would find that interesting, KENJI!

I remember she used to have get-togethers at Pahonu with a group of friends/swimming club (?), and they'd swim to Rabbit Island & back for fun.

I also just saw a comment on social media (Lenkov's Instagram account actually) and a tourist/fellow MPI fan said that during a visit to Pahonu in 2012 she saw Eve climbing her coco palms to get coconuts!

I'm sure you know there is a photo or two of her trimming a coco palm somewhere on this forum.

Rembrandt's Girl wrote:(Honolulu Star Bulletin December 29, 1917)