Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website These silent black and white home movies dated 1928-1930 from Arthur A. Friestedt and family open with a visit to Southern California (continued from Reel 1), then proceed to a history buff’s tour of the United States’ Civil War battlefields and national landmarks. The film concludes in Havana, Cuba (TRT: 57:22). Friestedt was the owner of the United States Music Company, a leading publisher of piano roll music for player pianos. His father Luther Friestedt was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution and an inventor who held patents for steel sheet pilings, among other things. A U.S. destroyer, the USS Mervine (DD-322), the scout cruiser USS Omaha entering San Diego Bay. Submarines in the channel. Rockwell Field (0:09). La Jolla, CA. A panorama reveals a garden, palm trees, the family automobile, coastal shoreline. A Pacific vista (1:21). Mission San Luis
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