[3940dxer]

We've seen a few posts about South Pasadena's Ostrich Farm, but I don't think this weird shot ever turned up before...



"Carving a roasted ostrich, c. 1923."

http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/photography/all/05705/facts.los_angeles_portrait_of_a_city.htm

Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_zXN_GwdMYMo/TS...76/cawston.jpg


http://lh5.ggpht.com/_zXN_GwdMYMo/TS...80Wo/p198a.jpg


http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb....lton/voor5.jpg


People must have once been ostrich-crazy in northeastern L.A. Not only was there Cawston's--there was also the Los Angeles Ostrich Farm at 3609 Mission Road, across from Eastlake-now-Lincoln Park:

LAPL http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics16/00007632.jpg

LAPL http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics02/00010702.jpg

LAPL http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics21/00045189.jpg

LAPL http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics21/00045190.jpg

More here: http://www.lincolnheightsla.com/ostrich/