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ELSIE A. SOLOMON & HELEN E. TODD
THE MODEL HAT
SHOP
A thoroughly up-to-date concern,
whose enterprise has also stimulated other firms, is the millinery shop located
15 West Elm Street, Lodi, known as the Model Hat Shop, owned and operated by
the Misses Elsie A. Solomon and Helen E. Todd, thoroughly experienced in
designing and trimming hats. This shop
was founded by Mrs. Vassar, who conducted it for eight years as a parlor
millinery shop, one of the first in Lodi.
It was then sold to Miss E. M. McLachlan and successfully conducted by
her until it was sold to the present owners in 1919, and they have built up a
fine, well-paying business. Miss Elsie
A. Solomon is a San Joaquin County girl, born seven miles from Stockton on the
Linden Road, a daughter of Gustave and Agnes Solomon. Gustave Solomon came to California in an
early day, and for many years conducted a winery. He passed away in 1910, and her mother is now
residing in Berkeley. Miss Solomon
received her education in the Delphi district school, then
attended the Washington school and the Stockton Commercial College in
Stockton. She took up millinery work in
Stockton and spent nine years in shops in San Francisco and Stockton previous
to locating in Lodi.
Miss Helen E. Todd was born in
Diagonal, Iowa, a daughter of Edgar P. and Laura Todd. In 1901 Miss Todd accompanied her parents to
California and settled at Selma, where her father is engaged in the real estate
and insurance business. Miss Todd
attended the Selma grammar and high schools and learned the millinery trade in
Fresno and San Francisco, and she, too, had nine years’ experience before
locating to Lodi.
In 1919 Misses Solomon and Todd
purchased the business conducted by Miss McLachlan, and their enterprise and
industry have been rewarded by increasing patronage and the Model Hat Shop is a
credit to the city.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Page
1637. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2011 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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