Vintage Jonathan Club Los Angeles Logo Etched Wine Glass Social Business
The Jonathan Club is a private social and business club in Los Angeles, California founded in 1895
Elegant stemmed clear wine glasses with etched club logo and multiple round knops on stems, our estimate of age is ca. 1930s to 1950s
Rare
Measures about 8-1/4" tall
Pre-owned, good condition, no cracks or chips
Item location: Back warehouse, Center Right, 3rd Bay, Bottom Shelf, U35
From Wikipedia: Prominent members of the Jonathan Club include:
John D. Bicknell, founder of law firm that became Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Herman Wolf Hellman, founder of Farmers & Merchants Bank; real estate investor
Henry Huntington, railroad builder; land developer; rare art and book collector
James Boon Lankershim, land developer
John D. Spreckels, sugar and steamship entrepreneur
Meredith Pinxton Snyder, banker; Los Angeles police chief, city councilman and mayor (three times)
Peter Janss, developed East Los Angeles communities; philanthropist
Edward Laurence Doheny, oilman
Maurice Newmark, family built merchandise and grocery business into largest firm in Los Angeles
Harry Chandler, publisher of the Los Angeles Times
Mericos Hector Whittier, oil industry pioneer; land developer
William Wrigley Jr., chewing gum magnate
A.P. Giannini, founder of Bank of Italy (later Bank of America)
Edgar Rice Burroughs, adventure and science fiction author
Robert A. Millikan, experimental physicist; recipient of the Nobel Prize; longtime president of California Institute of Technology
Admiral C.C. Bloch, commander of 14th Naval District during Dec. 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor
George Pepperdine, founded Western Auto Supply; philanthropist; endowed George Pepperdine College (later Pepperdine University)
Jesse Louis Lasky, created first permanent feature film company in what would become Hollywood; a founder of Paramount Pictures
Tom Mix, early Western movie star
Gordon Bernie Kaufman, prominent architect
Rear Admiral Isaac Campbell Kidd, career U.S. Naval officer who perished aboard USS Arizona in 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor; posthumously received Medal of Honor
El Warren, governor of California; chief justice of U.S. Supreme Court
Buster Keaton, silent screen star
Hal Roach, comedy writer, director and producer; created Hal Roach Studios
Harold Lloyd, comedy movie star in silents and talkies; founded own studio
Edmund G. Brown, lawyer and politician; governor of California
Paul Gray Hoffman, automobile executive; president of Ford Foundation; received Medal of Freedom for work as first administrator of Marshall Plan after WWII
John A. McCone, industrialist; head of Atomic Energy Commission; director of CIA; headed McCone Commission to investigate causes of 1965 Watts riots and propose cures to avoid future outbreaks
Ronald Reagan, movie actor; governor of California; president of the United States
Arnold O. Beckman, prolific chemist and inventor; industrialist; funded first transistor company and fueled creation of Silicon Valley; philanthropist, including to Caltech where he studied and taught
Peter O’Malley, owner and president of Los Angeles Dodgers