Bishop took his share of photos of well-known politicians and celebrities. All of the people shown here were famous at the time, although some have faded from modern memory.
Franklin D. Roosevelt speaking at Balboa Stadium in San Diego on October 2, 1935. Interestingly, it was called “the stadium” in news reports; it wasn’t until 1939 that the name “Balboa Stadium” was in general use.Harry Truman, making a campaign speech at Lane Field on September 24, 1948.Two undated photos of Albert Einstein visiting San Diego.Actor Clark Gable.Newspaper editor, speech writer, and orator Arthur Brisbane, whose “Today” column was read by millions of Americans.General John J. “Black Jack” Pershing, hero of World War I, and Congressman Phil Swing, instrumental in getting the Boulder Dam built.Col. William “Billy” Mitchell, early advocate of a powerful air force, on arrival to San Diego July 15, 1925, after being court-martialed by the U.S. Army board for saying that air power would be decisive in warfare.Popular evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, discussed in this chapter.Harry captured Ganna Walska and Harold McCormick, something that the East Coast papers failed at for six months.Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby (in uniform), June 8, 1922.James Rolph, Governor of California and mayor of San Francisco for 19 years.Boxer Jack Dempsey and movie star Estelle Taylor get married in San Diego.Jack Dempey, Jim Coffroth, and race car driver Barney Oldfield at the Tijuana race track on March 28, 1926.Harry Bishop wrote on the back of this photo: “Barney Oldfield, famous auto racer, married Mrs. Hulda Rae Braden recently in San Diego, just a few hours after a final decree of divorce in favor of Mrs. Rebecca Oldfield was signed in Los Angeles. It is the third matrimonial venture for both.”
Another U.S. President, Herbert Hoover. The story behind this photo.Harry writes: “Recovering from an operation I was so weak I could hardly climb up the base of a light standard when then-President Dwight Eisenhower visited San Diego. In car with Eisenhower is Gov. Earl Warren of California.”Babe Ruth duck hunting on Sweetwater Lake, January 14, 1927.Actress and dancer Ann Pennington.Charles Lindbergh honored at Balboa Stadium after his non-stop flight across the Atlantic. Left to right: B. F. Mahoney (airplane builder), Charles Lindbergh, Will Rogers.Opera singer Ernestine Schuman-Heinke dons western attire to publicize an American Legion rodeo in 1925. The story of this photo.Helen Keller, ‘listening’ to Mrs. Anne Sullivan Macy’s description of the reception held for her on April 16, 1925.Jesse Grant (left) and U. S. Grant Jr., sons of President (and General) U. S. Grant, meet on the 103rd birthday of their father, April 27, 1925.Navy Secretary Edwin Denby stops in San Diego, before boarding the USS Henderson to Japan.Heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey (left) at the Tijuana race track, with track owner Jim Coffroth. March 23, 1923.The wedding dinner of Dempsey and Taylor.More boxers: Current heavyweight champion Gene Tunney referees an exhibition bout between two old-timers: James Jeffries (aka, “The Great White Hope”) and Tom Sharkey.Jeffries, Tunney, and Sharkey, March 25, 1927.
