The depression has not really been felt in San Dimas, which has a thriving little business district, eleven miles of newly paved streets, complete with curbs, sidewalks, and street lights. We have probably 2,000 residents, four or five churches, several fraternal organizations and social groups.
Some families have the new-fangled radios, but there are few cultural opportunities.
Enter Edward Ewald, called home to San Dimas by the illness of his widowed mother. 115 W. 5th St. Mr. Ewald built an exact replica of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, but in miniature - a scale of four inches to six feet. The ornate proscenium arch was also built to scale, and the stage was hung with crimson velvet, with an asbestos curtain with a scene from Othello. There were even two dimunitive opera-boxes hung with crimson and gold at the sides. There was a wide bench around three of the walls, and with chairs in the middle, the seating capacity was fifty.