Newhall Old Timers Reunion
July 4, 1934

Newhall's eldest citizens got together once a year in the 1930s in a park adjacent to Newhall Elementary School, where houses stand today, for an Independence Day photograph. This is the "Old Timers Reunion" of 1934. Fourth of July festivities kicked off with highly popular "patriotic speeches" and included a barbecue, greased pole and greased pig contests, and baseball games that lasted until sundown.

Shown here are:

FRONT ROW (SEATED): Mrs. Mayhue, Grandma Emmons, -?-, Sara Gifford (wife of train stationmaster John Gifford), -?-, -?-, -?-, Mary Rivera (wife of Saloon keeper Nick Rivera).

BACK ROW (STANDING): Mr. Mayhue, Mrs. Dill, Lily Mayhue, Armantha Thibaudeau, Pearl Pardee Russell, Mabel Taylor, -?-, -?-, -?-, Harriet Young, -?-, -?-, -?-, Walton Young.

Photograph from the collection of Betty Houghton Pember. Identifications provided by Gladys Thibaudeau Laney (daughter of 1930s socialite Armantha Thibaudeau), and by Rosie Luce, granddaughter of Nick and Mary Rivera.