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Chatsworth Celebrities - Julius Fried (pronounced "Freed")
Julius Fried with his borzois, holding a
goat, on his ranch in Chatsworth
1910-06-12 Photo from a
Lakeview Gusher article
Los Angeles Times NOT the inventor of
Orange Julius
Fried Citrus Ranch
11110 Canoga, circa 1922
Words at top of photo:
"Fruit trees planted by Reuben Ahlstrom on ranch
north of Devonshire at the end of Canoga Avenue…"
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Presentation Overview
This presentation will cover the following topics:
Julius Fried (pronounced "Freed") (1872-1958) was born in Healdsburg, Sonoma, CA. His father Heinrich was born in 1831 in
Bavaria and immigrated to California in 1849 during the gold rush.
Early Career: Worked in the Coalinga California oilfields from 1901 to 1905, then pursued other oil ventures.
Lakeview Gusher (1910–1911): In 1909, Fried purchased land in Kern County and formed the Lakeview Oil Company. Before
the well struck oil in 1910, Julius sold 51% of the company to Union Oil; On March 15, 1910, the Lakeview #1 well, drilled to
2,265 feet, erupted, producing 9 million barrels over eighteen months, the largest oil gusher in U.S. history. Julius was
instantly wealthy.
William W. Orcutt, geologist of Union Oil (of Orcutt Ranch on Reseda in Canoga Park), became the president of Lakeview Oil.
Chatsworth Citrus Ranch (1922): Julius and Dorothy purchased a 50-acre citrus ranch at the north end of Canoga in
Chatsworth, Los Angeles County. Managed by Harry Misumi (1930s) and later the Vargas family (late 1940s–1962). The
property was sold in 1962 and later subdivided. The Vargas family ran a produce stand at Tulsa and Topanga.
Archaeological Discovery (1939): A Southwest Museum excavation on Fried’s Chatsworth citrus ranch found evidence of
Prehistoric Native American presence.
Post-gusher, Julius and Dorothy lived in Santa Monica, then Beverly Hills. They regularly visited the Chatsworth ranch.
Orange Julius Clarification: Lakeview Gusher Julius Fried did not invent Orange Julius, it was created by Butte Montana Julius
Fried. They both lived in Los Angeles at the same time. A fun story in our Sept 2020 newsletter.
This presentation will be posted at our website, chatsworthhistory.com, Digital Archives, Presentations.
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March 15, 1910 Lakeview Gusher
"Lakeview is Biggest Yet" 1910-03-18
LATimes
(three days after the Lakeview Gusher hits)
Timeline (from articles in this presentation, referenced):
1908-05 Parker Barrett and John Dunn locate 340 acres in
Section 25-12, southwest of Bakersfield (1910-06-12 Big Winners)
1908-06 Julius Fried agrees to finance the development of the
property and acquired an interest in all of their holdings. (1910-
06-12 Big Winners)
1908-11 - Drilling begins (1910-08 Sunset Magazine Calif. Black Gold pg 176
and 1910-03-18 Biggest Yet)
1909-06 A.E. Hodgkinson purchases an interest in the land
holdings. (1910-06-12 Big Winners) Other investors are FP Wells, G.
Safford, Dr. White and C. Leonardt (1910-03-18 Biggest Yet)
1909-08 Stockholders spent $70,000 getting down 1,900 ft, ran
out of funds. Union Oil buys 51% of Lakeview Oil Stock and
keeps drilling. (Union Oil wanted the land for a pumping
station) (1910-03-18 Biggest yet)
1910-03-15 The Lakeview #1 Gusher Hits! The well had reached
a depth of 2,200 ft, but headquarters gives orders to stop
drilling, and to perforate the casing at the first stratum of oil
sand. Drillers disregard the order and drill another 65 ft. (1910-08
Sunset Magazine Calif. Black Gold pg 177, 1910-06-12 Big Winners, 1910-03-18
Biggest yet)
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Big Winners from Unequaled Spouter - Lakeview Gusher
1910-06-12 Big Winners
Los Angeles Times
Quote from the article at right:
"At this time Messrs. Fried, Dunn, Barrett and Hodgkinson own the land on
which the Lakeview well is located, Mr. Fried holding five-eighths and the
other men one-eighth each. By the terms of the lease they receive a one-
sixth royalty on all the oil produced by the Lakeview Oil Company, and are
enjoying themselves on the shady side of Broadway. All, naturally, are great
believers in the future of California’s oil industry and are interested in many
properties which will be developed.
Julius Fried, who has profited in a larger measure from the Lakeview gusher
than any of the others, because of his large holdings, is a native son having
been born in Sonoma County, California, in 1875. He was educated in the
common schools of Healdsburg and took a course in a San Francisco
business college. After serving as assistant cashier of a bank in Healdsburg
for four years, young Fried went to San Francisco, bought a seat on the
stock exchange and later organized several oil companies. In this line of
endeavor he was successful, and it was a natural sequence of environment
for him to join the oil men who located the property that produced the world’s
greatest gusher. Mr. Fried is unmarried and makes his headquarters at the
Sierra Madre Club."
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OIL - article on Julius Fried
1910-04-11 OIL
The Pomona Daily Review
Quotes from the article at right:
"The story of the Lakeview gusher, the greatest well ever
drilled in the world, is indicative of the "slip betwixt the
cup and the lip" in the oil fields. It also shows that the
world will always step aside for the man who
understands his business and knows whither he is
going."
"The details of the drilling of this well are interesting
mainly because of the number of people who got "cold
feet" before it was completed. One after another quit,
but Fried stayed with it. Finally, when funds ran low, the
Union Oil Company was induced to complete the well
for a majority of the stock then issued."
"The drilling of the Lakeview gusher started other
developments so that today the Midway-Sunset has
more sensational wells than any other district in the
world."
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August 1910 - Sunset Magazine article on the
Lakeview Gusher
California's Black Gold - The Romance of the Oil Gushers By Walter V. Woehlke
1910-08 Sunset Magazine
California's Black Gold pg 176
Quote from the 15-page Sunset Magazine article at right:
"Fried was the man with the money -- the angel with the needed supply of
manna. Locating a claim in the arid sagebrush plain is no child's play; but
compared with the effort required to locate the cash for its development it is
a soft snap, a task no harder than lying in a shady hammock with the
lemonade within reach of the right hand.
Fried could supply the sinews of war, having gathered them in the Coalinga oil
field during an up-and-down career of eight years. He had entered the oil
business through the doors of the San Francisco stock exchange in 1900,
leaving railroad employment to invest his savings in petroleum shares during
the first boom, with such success that he opened a brokerage office which
left him as bare as a burnt-over hillside when the bubble burst.
Nevertheless he stuck to the business and won out, and the same
determination that induced him to stay in the oil business after the bottom
had dropped out of it, helped him to become the father of the Lakeview
gusher."
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Words on this marker:
California Historical Marker
Lakeview Gusher No.1
America's most spectacular gusher blew in here on
March 14, 1910. Initially 18,000 barrels per day, the
flow later reached an uncontrolled peak of 100,000
barrels per day, completely destroying the derrick. This
Union Oil Company well between Taft and Maricopa
produced nine million barrels of oil in 18 months.
Dedicated
Feb 3rd, 1952
Marker Placed by
Miocene Parler No. 228 N.D.G.W.
Kern County Historical Society
Kern County Museum
State Historical Landmark No. 485
California Historical Landmark # 485 at Lakeview Gusher Monument Site
Lakeview Gusher, Petroleum Club Rd, Maricopa, CA 93252
Google Maps Dec 2023
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Sign at Lakeview Gusher Monument Site
Lakeview Gusher, Petroleum Club Rd, Maricopa, CA 93252
Google Maps Dec 2009
Words on the sign at right: Lakeview Gusher #1
On March 15, 1910, at a depth of 2,225 feet, Lakeview #1 blew in.
Union Oil was the Producer. Flowing at an estimated rate of 18,000
barrels a day, the oil demolished the derrick. Sand covered the
engine house and bunkhouses.
Men worked around the clock building a barricade of sandbags
surrounding the well while teams and scrapers built 20 huge sumps
covering over 60 acres. This was not only for recovery purposes,
but to keep the oil from flowing into Buena Vista Lake, a source of
irrigation water for Miller and Lux Farms, 8 miles away.
At its peak, the uncontrolled flow reached an estimated 90,000 barrels
a day. It flowed for 544 days.
Lakeview #1 produced an estimated 9 million barrels of oil, a record not yet equaled by any other well in California. The
rescue operation recovered more that 4 million barrels, the remainder was lost.
Julius Fried, a local grocer (ed. note: Julius was an oil man), started the Lakeview Oil Company, but it was undercapitalized.
Neighboring Union Oil Company agreed that for 51% of the capital stock and 4 of 7 seats on the board of directors, Union
would drill the well when their crews were available, for they wanted the property as a site for storage tanks for the
Producer’s Pipeline then being built.
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Huell Howser visits the Lakeview Gusher site
Up Next:
Huell Howser visits the Lakeview Gusher site on California's Gold, as a part
of his visit to the West Kern Oil Museum in Taft, CA, on November 11,
1995.
Up next is a 6-minute clip of their visit to the Lakeview #1 Gusher site. It is
available at https://youtu.be/E9Km__H20Vw
The full 27-minute visit to the West Kern Oil Museum is available at
Chapman University, Oil – California’s Gold (609)
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Huell Howser visits the Lakeview Gusher site
Up Next:
Huell Howser visits the Lakeview Gusher site on California's Gold, as a part
of his visit to the West Kern Oil Museum in Taft, CA, on November 11,
1995.
Up next is a 6-minute clip of their visit to the Lakeview #1 Gusher site. It is
available at https://youtu.be/E9Km__H20Vw
The full 27-minute visit to the West Kern Oil Museum is available at
Chapman University, Oil – California’s Gold (609)
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Connection to William W Orcutt (Orcutt Ranch, West Hills, HCM #31)
W.W. Orcutt, geologist of the Union Oil Company, and
president of the Lakeview Oil Company, stated yesterday
that the great gusher on the company's property in the
Midway district had completed its twenty-ninth day, and still
is flowing at a rate that is undiminished.
The gusher is flowing at a minimum of 30,000 barrels a day,
and the company has saved over 1 million barrels of oil.
At least 15 percent of the production has been lost through
evaporation and percolation.
1910-04-14 Lakeview is Still Going
W.W. Orcutt
LATimes
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Connection to William W Orcutt (Orcutt Ranch, West Hills, HCM #31)
W.W. Orcutt, president of Lakeview Oil, reported that the gusher is still giving forth
oil at an undiminished rate, but for the first time the well is under absolute
control.
The big oil cushion at the base of the derrick is doing its work well.
Some humor in the last paragraph…..
The men employed at the Lakeview have formed the theory that the oil comes
direct from China, as several Chinese coins have been picked up near the well.
They intimate that these coins were ejected from the gusher along with the
shark's teeth and other objects…
1910-04-27 No Let-up to Well
WW Orcutt president Lakeview Oil Company
The Los Angeles Times
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Connection to William W Orcutt (Orcutt Ranch, West Hills, HCM #31)
Orcutt Ranch was the vacation and retirement estate of William Warren Orcutt, an early
pioneer of oil production in California and the discoverer of one of the first prehistoric
skeletons at the La Brea Tar Pits.
The March 25, 1910 Oil Age Weekly identifies the Lakeview Oil Company as organized in
1908 with Julius Fried; at the present time the president of Lakeview Oil is WW Orcutt
of the Union Oil Company.
Orcutt was born in Dodge County, Minnesota on February 14, 1869. His family moved west
and settled in Ventura, California, when he was 12 years old. After graduating from
Stanford University with a degree in geology and engineering in 1895, he was employed
as a civil and hydraulic engineer and as a United States Deputy Surveyor until 1899.
That year he joined the Union Oil Company of California as superintendent of its San
Joaquin Valley Division; he would stay with Unocal, eventually becoming a Vice-
President and a member of the board, until he retired in 1939.
Orcutt discovered fossils embedded in the asphalt deposits on the Hancock Ranch shortly
after he moved to Los Angeles in 1901. Fossils found in the La Brea Tar Pits had been
mentioned in the scientific literature as early as 1875, but it was not until Orcutt collected
saber-toothed cat, dire wolf, ground sloth and other fossils from the site that the
scientific community recognized the value of the La Brea Tar Pits in understanding the
late Pleistocene fauna and flora of North America. Orcutt eventually gave his fossil
collection to John Campbell Merriam of the University of California.
The La Brea Coyote
(Canis latrans orcutti)
Skeleton from the La Brea Tar Pits
named after William Orcutt
William Orcutt
(1869-1942)
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Recap of Julius Fried Timeline
Julius Fried (1872-1958), born and raised in Healdsburg, Sonoma
1898 - Julius marries Maud (Mary) Gorman at the age of 25, and is working as a clerk at the railroad
pass office in Oakland in the 1900 census.
1902 - The Philadelphia-San Francisco Oil company is starting on its second well in the Coalinga Field.
Julius Fried, the company's superintendent, has also purchased 40 acres on Sec. 6. (article at right).
1908-1911 Lakeview #1 drilling begins, March 1910 the gusher hits, oil flows for 544 days, until Sept
1911.
1910 Census, May 4th. Two months after the Lakeview gusher, at the age of 37, Julius is renting at the
Brunson Mansion, 347 South Grand on Bunker Hill, Los Angeles.
The residence known as the Brunson Mansion was built in the
early 1880s by Judge Anson Brunson.
It was “a dark red house, large, compact, dignified, in the center
of sloping lawns walled up above the level of three streets.”
The house was so large it had a Bunker Hill Avenue and a Grand
Avenue address, before settling on 347 South Grand as its official
label.
By 1917, the automobile had come to Bunker Hill and the owners
of the property at 347 South Grand decided that a two-story brick
garage would be more lucrative than a hotel.
1902-02-20 Coalinga Field
LA Herald Examiner
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Recap of Julius Fried Timeline
1910 - Four months after Lakeview #1 hits, Julius (age 37, who is divorced from his first wife Maud) marries
Dorothy (Dot) Cramer (age 22). They travel to Monterey by train, get married, have a quiet wedding
dinner at the Hotel Del Monte, and return to Los Angeles on the evening train (article upper right)
1910-07-26 Julius and
Dorothy married in
Pacific Grove
Monterey Daily Cypress
Hotel Del Monte and its
Spacious Grounds,
The Most Noted Resort
in California, Monterey.
Stereograph Card
1913 Julius Fried
Who's Who on the
Pacific Coast
1913 - An entry in Who's Who (article lower right). Julius and Dot are now living at 451 S.
Manhattan Place, in Los Angeles.
Julius' office is in the 1895 Byrne Bldg, northwest corner of 3rd St and Broadway, today's
LA-HCM #544. (a side note, the first Orange Julius stand, owned by Butte Montana Julius Fried,
opened in 1926 on Broadway and 8th St.)
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Recap of Julius Fried Timeline
1915 - Julius and Dorothy create the Comique Film Company with John E. Breman
(article at right) Note: "Comique" is French for Comical.
John E. Brennan (1865-1940) became popular on vaudeville in the 1890's, and was one
of the most well-known silent comedy stars of the early 1910's. He began his film
career with the Kalem Film Company in Santa Monica in 1912 and was often teamed
with actress Ruth Roland until 1915. He appeared in 150 one-reel comedies (10-12
minutes) between 1912 and 1915, filming 67 in 1913. 1915-02-16 Comique Film Company
Los Angeles Express
Irene Boyle,
John E.
Brennan, Ruth
Roland, and
Juanita
Sponsler in
What the
Doctor Ordered
(1913)
A curious/perhaps related side story/unsolved puzzle…
John Brennan made one movie in 1916, The Devils
Needle, with Norma Talmadge, released August 13th.
Norma Talmadge married Joseph Schenck on
October 20, 1916.
A 1916-09-27 article announces that Fatty Arbuckle will
quit Keystone to form the Comique Film Corporation
with Schenck in New York City. From 1917 to 1919,
Joseph Schenck produced a series of Comique
comedies starring master movie comedian Roscoe
"Fatty" Arbuckle and featuring an apprentice, Joseph
Frank "Buster" Keaton.
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Chatsworth Citrus Ranch, 11110 Canoga
In 1918 Julius' draft card (at right) had him living with Dot at Santa Monica Beach at 115 Hart
ave, Ocean Park, Santa Monica
In 1922 (below) Julius is registered to vote on Canoga St in Chatsworth as a farmer, he is 50
years old. He never registered again to vote in Chatsworth, voting instead at his homes in
Los Angeles.
It is surmised that with the 1922 registration he wanted to "plant the flag" so to speak on his
50 acre citrus ranch in Chatsworth.
Note: In 1922, 171 people were registered to vote in Chatsworth, including Minnie Hill and
Alfred Palmer. 1918-09-12 Draft Card 115
Hart Santa Monica
1922 Chatsworth Voter Registration
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Chatsworth Citrus Ranch, 11110 Canoga
The photo at right was donated by the Ahlstrom
family. Reuben Ahlstrom (a descendant of the
Johnson homesteading family), lived on the
southwest corner of Lassen and Topanga in 1920,
that included the Graves/Hill Store area.
Reuben was 37 years old in 1922.
The trees were planted symmetrically on the 10-acre
plot below the 2-story house.
Based on the mature eucalyptus trees planted west
of the house, we assume that the house was built
by someone else earlier, and Julius purchased
the property as an investment /vacation home.
Fried Citrus Ranch, 11110 Canoga, circa 1922
Looking north
Words at top of photo:
"Fruit trees planted by Reuben Ahlstrom on
ranch north of Devonshire at the end of Canoga
Avenue…"
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Chatsworth Citrus Ranch, 11110 Canoga
The 1928 aerial at right is the earliest aerial of the
Fried Ranch (circled in red), 6 years after the
photo below.
Notice Julius could drive north on Canoga to Twin
Lakes and Deerlake Highlands, which began
selling lots in 1927. The Mayan road entrance
arch to Twin Lakes is above the hairpin turn just
north west of Stoney Point. Twin Lakes & Deer
Lake Highlands History
1922 Fried Citrus Ranch
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Chatsworth Citrus Ranch, 11110 Canoga
The 1934 article below right provides more information on the Julius Fried Ranch. It describes a cluster of 35 oranges on one
twig, picked from a 12-year-old tree, which would calculate to a grove planted in 1922, the same (and only) year that Julius
registered to vote in Chatsworth.
It also mentions that H. Misumi is the caretaker of the Fried grove, and Fried has a 50-acre citrus ranch.
1934-08-25 Los Angeles Times
The 1940 census lists Harry Misumi (63 yrs old), born in Japan,
living at 11110 Canoga. His occupation is farm manager,
industry is citrus groves. He lived at the same place in 1935.
Also living at 11110 Canoga is Syoki Tanaka (50), his wife Yalio
(43), both born in Japan, and son Siyao (23), salesman at a
vegetable market, and daughter Siyaki (19), both born in
California.
Across the street in 1940, at 11105 Canoga, was Alfred and Clara
Brandt, with daughter Ingrid. Ingrid would marry Ray Johnson
Jr. in 1943, he was the son of Ray "Kelly" Johnson and
Katharine Johnson. The Johnsons lived on today's Bee
Canyon Road, and the first meeting of the Chatsworth Historical
Society was held at their kitchen table.
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Julius Fried and the Docia Conley Fig Cannery
In 1928, Julius is president of the Los Angeles Fig Cannery in Chatsworth. (article at right). The article
describes that 75 tons of figs have been prepared for market in 33 days.
The story of Docia Conley, Kadota Figs, and the Paradise Gift Shoppe is told in our presentation on our
website.
To summarize, in 1924, 148 acres of figs were planted at Devonshire and DeSoto by WG Loomis. In
1926, Docia and George Conley, who had been processing/canning fruit since 1908, buy a 2-acre fig
farm in Chatsworth. They build The Paradise Tea Room and Gift Shoppe, and a $10,000 preserving
plant on their 2-acre property.
The $10,000 preserving plant at the Kadota Fig Farms on Devonshire is discussed in a 1926-01-28 LA
Daily News article (pg. 42 of the presentation). Julius no doubt was involved in the formation or
funding of the Fig Cannery/preserving plant as President.
1928-11-02
The Van Nuys News
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Walker’s Chatsworth Cairn Site
In January of 1939, Mrs. Julius Fried of Chatsworth called at the
Southwest Museum and presented a soapstone artifact which
had been unearthed by a plow at the Fried citrus ranch in
Chatsworth.
A team of archaeologists and volunteers led by Edwin Walker
documented and excavated artifacts over 23 days. It was
called the “Chatsworth Cairn Site”, and was determined to be
ceremonial in nature.
The Fried Ranch was at today’s northeast corner of Canoga and
Celtic, 1/3 mile east of Stoney Point. Today it is single family
homes built in 1980 and 1984.
The Cairn Site was in the northwest corner of the Fried 10-acre
citrus orchard.
Steatite Beads
Chatsworth Cairn Site, CA-LAN-21
Autry Collection Online
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The cairns were underground, and
comprised mostly of broken stone
bowls and pestles, manos and
metates.
Also found were atlatl points, sandstone
bowls, and some fragments of
cremated human bones that indicated
the sites were mortuary in character.
The artifacts ranged from 1,000 B.C. to
A.D. 1,000.
Walker’s Chatsworth Cairn Site
Left: Ceremonial sandstone bowl and pestle
Right: gorget/pendant and disc-shaped object
Chatsworth Cairn Site, CA-LAN-21
Autry Collection Online
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Chatsworth Citrus Ranch, 11110 Canoga
Moving forward in time, in the 1940's to 1962, the Vargas family were caretakers of the Fried Ranch. Frank Vargas shared
photos of Julius and Dorothy Fried at their Chatsworth Ranch, which will follow.
But first, a backstory of Frank Vargas contacting Joanne Mello, a relative of Julius Fried, and Frank also contacting Virginia
Watson of the Chatsworth Historical Society.
And then, sharing the photos of Julius and Dot at the Ranch.
Followed by some history of the Vargas family in Chatsworth.
Backstory of Frank Vargas contacting Joanne Mello, a relative of Julius Fried, and also
Virginia Watson of the Chatsworth Historical Society
In November 2020, we were contacted by Joanne Mello through Ancestry.com. Joanne is Julius' 1st cousin twice
removed. Julius' father Heinrich Fried and Joanne's great-grandmother Margarethe Fried (md. Egli) were brother
and sister. She had accumulated a large file of research material on Julius and Dorothy, including their probate
files. Joanne mailed her research material to us for our use in telling this story.
In 2005, Joanne corresponded with Frank Vargas, who grew up on the estate of Julius Fried in Chatsworth.
In 2010, Frank Vargas contacted Virginia Watson of the Chatsworth Historical Society, and shared photos and
stories of the Fried Ranch. Ann Vincent corresponded with Frank to gather slides to produce the best copies
available.
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Julius and Dorothy Fried photos at the Chatsworth ranch
2-story house, looking east Ranch and house looking north
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Julius and Dorothy Fried photos at the Chatsworth ranch
Stoney point looking west Julius and friend resting on a pile of dirt
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Julius and Dorothy Fried photos at the Chatsworth ranch
Niece with Borzoi, looking north to Twin Lakes
(see house at top of hill)
Julius and Dot cooking outdoors
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Julius and Dorothy Fried photos at the Chatsworth ranch
One-story house with borzoi and small goat
One-story house with snow
The one-story house was east of the two-story house
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Julius and Dorothy Fried photos at the Chatsworth ranch
Julius with two other men and borzoi
Frank Vargas created this logo in 2011, with some help
from a friend Dana
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Julius and Dorothy Fried photos at the Chatsworth ranch
Dorothy on rock formation
road to house, looking east
barn in back
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Julius and Dorothy Fried photos at the Chatsworth ranch
Canoga snow on the mountains looking north
Canoga view of ranch and house snow on mountains
Looking north
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Julius and Dorothy Fried photos at the Chatsworth ranch
south-facing side of one-story house east of
two-story house shed and barn beyond with
snow
south-facing side of one-story house
Dorothy with borzoi. Trees around house are bigger
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Julius and Dorothy Fried photos at the Chatsworth ranch
Julius, Dorothy in wheelbarrow
trees facing south maybe from 2story house
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Julius and Dorothy Fried photos at the Chatsworth ranch
prone gunman pumpkins shed or barn in back
Julius and friend unique rock formation in back
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Julius and Dorothy Fried photos at the Chatsworth ranch
Julius holding goat with borzois
Julius in barn with goats
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Julius and Dorothy Fried photos at the Chatsworth ranch
View west Stoney Point
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Julius and Dorothy Fried photos at the Chatsworth ranch
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