{"id":549,"date":"2014-03-09T15:39:18","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T22:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/?p=549"},"modified":"2014-03-09T19:55:07","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T02:55:07","slug":"1911-cement-work-and-perris-becomes-a-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/2014\/03\/09\/1911-cement-work-and-perris-becomes-a-city\/","title":{"rendered":"1911 Cement work and Perris becomes a City"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Perrishouse-fireplace--maybe\"<\/p>\n

I can only locate two mentions of the Almquists in 1911. \u00a0In January, the Riverside Daily Press mentions Gus Almquist building a cement block garage<\/a> for S.V. Gates. S.V. Gates was a trustee who helped with the\u00a0incorporation of Perris<\/a>\u00a0into a\u00a0city<\/a>\u00a0in 1911. There is no\u00a0mention of Gus’s partner from earlier years, L.O. Whitlock, perhaps they parted ways in 1910?<\/p>\n

In the Perris city directory<\/a>s\u00a0in 1911-1915\u00a0G. Almquist is listed as a miller. \u00a0There is also a carpenter by the name of A. Almquist. \u00a0I wonder who the A.\u00a0Almquist was, they aren’t a near relative of Gus, could it be Gus himself if using his full name Agustav to get two listings in the directory?<\/p>\n

After 1911 we don’t see the Almquists in the papers again until 1916. \u00a0I am tentatively chalking this up to poor OCR (optical character reader) performance and perhaps poorly scanned newspapers and assume after some improvements we’ll see something pop up from this period some day. \u00a0During this time Daniel Almquist was born, July 7, 1913, but I scanned through the birth announcements in the papers at this time and didn’t see his name.<\/p>\n

I’ve included the picture above of the fireplace as I haven’t been able to find any clues to where it might have been taken. \u00a0I am guessing it is the Perris home, does anyone see anything on the mantelpiece that looks familiar?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":563,"href":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions\/563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blackenedroots.com\/natasha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}