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Chronicle of a Del Mar Beach House, 1885 to Now

Juliana Maxey-Allison

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Dayton Publishing LLC
17 August 2017
Juliana Maxey-Allison's easy style makes this ""bite-aize"" California tale very readable and entertaining.

In the mid-1880s Jacob Taylor sized up the scrappy brush-covered site known then as Weed, and gambled that trains would bring people to this spot on the San Diego County coast of California. He envisioned an extravagant tourist destination, then built it, and awaited the new arrivals. The house at 227 Tenth Street was part of Taylor's dream made manifest.

Julie Maxey encountered the sagging, slouching, peeling ""old Victorian beach cottage"" almost a century later and set about rehabilitating it. After several years away in New York City and then a return to Del Mar in 2004, she began to investigate the history of the house and the people who had lived in it.

Edelweiss: Chronicle of a Del Mar Beach House brings Del Mar's first century alive and introduces some intriguing mysteries: How did the Edelweiss house acquire its name and its Swiss chalet details? Why were so many of the house's owners women? Was the cottage really the 1920s hideaway of the famous Hollywood couple Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks? How did the racetrack and Psychology Today magazine shape the character of this unique Southern California town?
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Imprint:   Dayton Publishing LLC
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 5mm
Weight:   163g
ISBN:   9780997003208
ISBN 10:   0997003200
Pages:   82
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Julie Guenther grew up in West Los Angeles, graduated from UCLA and moved to New York City, where she got her first job at a magazine and met David Maxey. The Maxeys moved to and from New York City, first to Washington, D. C. and back, and then to Del Mar and back. When David Maxey died, Julie and her children stayed in New York City, where she wrote for newspapers and magazines - among them Ladies' Home Journal, New York, The New York Times Magazine and Self, and then sold Manhattan real estate. She returned to Edelweiss with her husband Brad Allison in 2004. Her children, Brian and Elizabeth, both live in Seattle.

Reviews for Edelweiss: Chronicle of a Del Mar Beach House, 1885 to Now

Julie Maxey-Allison has provided a wonderful addition to the written history of Del Mar. Her easy style allows the telling of an intriguing story to be very readable. Even more important, thank you, Julie, for restoring Edelweiss for us instead of subjecting it to the omni-present California bulldozer and demolition. -- Larry D. Brooks, President, Del Mar Historical Society Anyone who has had the pleasure of visiting the perfectly restored Edelweiss house must wonder about its history. Julie does a great job of telling the story, not only of the house itself, but also how it is inextricably linked to the unique history of Del Mar. It's a great read! -- Bob Gans, President, Del Mar Foundation


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