A delightful email today from Oskar Thurnher, who with his brothers Bertram and William, were sons of the admired and respected San Marino florist Erna Thurnher and her husband, nurseryman Armin Thurnher, both now deceased.
I'd asked Oskar if he knew of the "Thurnher House" in his hometown of San Marino, a Los Angeles suburb near Pasadena, to which he replied that the family had lived there "all during our childhood." The Mediterranean style house, built in 1929, was later designated an historical building and named after the boys' father, who "built Lacy Park." Since 2004, it has served as home to the San Marino Historical Society. Naturally, this was the centering place for our darling florist Erna Thurnher, who bought her flowers downtown at the Los Angeles Flower Market like hundreds of others.
I'd asked Oskar if he knew of the "Thurnher House" in his hometown of San Marino, a Los Angeles suburb near Pasadena, to which he replied that the family had lived there "all during our childhood." The Mediterranean style house, built in 1929, was later designated an historical building and named after the boys' father, who "built Lacy Park." Since 2004, it has served as home to the San Marino Historical Society. Naturally, this was the centering place for our darling florist Erna Thurnher, who bought her flowers downtown at the Los Angeles Flower Market like hundreds of others.
There's more information about the house and the Society at http://www.smnet.org/comm_group/historical/ - and I'll include some of this local color in my July 12 slideshow at San Marino's Crowell Public Library (see https://www.flowermarkethistory.com/asp/presentations.asp ).
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