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95:"As soon as the two German musicians began to sell their wine successfully, they saw that they needed a larger supply of grapes than Los Angeles yet afforded; they also saw that the empty spaces of Los Angeles County might be quickly and cheaply developed into vineyards. The catch was to find people willing to do the work; the answer was the German population of San Francisco, a population that Kohler and Frohling, of course, already knew and understood. There was a considerable colony there by 1857, all of them drawn by the Gold Rush." 173:. While Frohling was in Southern California, Charles Kohler opened Kohler & Frohling Wines in San Francisco in 1854.They established the first commercial winery in California. {Reference USPTO Registration # 3142150 Today, Bert Sandman, the great-great-grandson of Charles Kohler, are once again producing wines at Treasure Island Wines, Treasure Island, San Francisco, CA. 103:
The Los Angeles Vineyard Company garnered a reputation nationally, as it was the first wine brand to ship its wine from the west coast to the east coast — as early as 1860. In 1862, a member of the exclusive Farmer's Club in New York City said regarding the wine: “I think the samples shown today
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And so, Anaheim was born in 1857, when 50 German-American families from the San Francisco area were convinced to invest $ 750 each to invest into the newly formed Los Angeles Vineyard Society (the name given to the venture by Frohling and Kohler). Founders Frohling and Kohler hired George Hansen, Los
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As the story goes, in 1853, "inspired by some delicious Los Angeles grapes at a picnic lunch," John Frohling, Charles Kohler, and a German musician named Beutler decided to enter the wine business, despite having "never even seen a vineyard."
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compiled under direction of Municipal Reference Library, City Hall, Los Angeles (March 1938, reprinted 1966). "Prepared ... as a report on Project No. SA 3123-5703-6077-8121-9900 conducted under the auspices of the
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prove that America is capable of producing its own wine, and that we are really independent of the wine countries of Europe."
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Judi Gerber, "Laying the Foundation: How Los Angeles Became the Commercial Wine Capital of America,"
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In Anaheim's first wedding, November, 1859, Frohling was married to Amelie Hammes, the daughter of
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Angeles County's assistant surveyor, to purchase and lay out the new wine-making colony.
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who was in a San Francisco band "that later became famous as the
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Chronological Record of Los Angeles City Officials,1850-1938,
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on May 4, 1857, for a term that ended on May 10, 1858.
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Cultural Resources of Jack London State Historic Park,
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Index

Anaheim, California
Los Angeles, California, Common Council
Prussia
flutist
Germania Society
Philips Hammes
Los Angeles Common Council


Los Angeles Marriages, 1851-1870
Archived
Wayback Machine
Mary Praetzellis, Allan Bramlette, Dell Upton and Adrian Praetzellis, Cultural Resources of Jack London State Historic Park, Sonoma State University, January 1987, reprinted 2007


Anaheim history, Orange County Register
AnaheimColony.com
Archived
Wayback Machine
Alice Grimshaw, Orange County History Series, 1931
Friis, John Frohling: Vintner and City Founder (1976), cited at "A History of Wine in America," UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004
Works Progress Administration
"A History of Wine in America"
"A History of Wine in America "d0e7753""


Dinkelspiel, Frances
"Top California Winery Killed by Prohibition Is Reborn"
Judi Gerber, "Laying the Foundation: How Los Angeles Became the Commercial Wine Capital of America," Los Angeles Agriculture, February 26, 2011
Victor W. Geraci, "Fermenting a Twenty-First Century California Wine Industry," Agricultural History, Autumn 2004, pages 438–465

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