Georgetown: an artist's view

Elbert Webster Price is my mother's "kid" brother. Uncle Elbert is a professionally trained artist who, after putting four kids through college while toiling away as, among other things, a stock broker and United Way executive, now lives in Santa Barbara, California, where he "works" full time on his painting and sculpture.

Way back when, he and the entire Price posse (see photo below) would come to the hacienda Fullerton to, among other things, visit his sisters Sybil and Marian (aka my mother and my aunt) plus assorted in-laws and his two favorite nephews.

During these family get togethers, he usually managed to get in a little painting. His frequent partner in these artistic pursuits was Georgetown's own, Stanley Pollard.

While most of the originals have been sold or now hang in my home, I've bugged him so much, he's agreed to try and dig up some prints of those Gerogetown paintings. What follows are the first two of what he promises will be many more.

Those interested in prints and/or seeing more art by the talented member of the family are advised to check out, Art by Elbert Price at: http://www.elbertprice.com/

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DEAN'S OLD STORE

The "old" Dean's Grocery Store was located just north of Georgetown near the Maxwell property. The last time I checked, the building was still standing and being used for storage. Whether the people in the painting are members of the mighty Maxwell tribe is not clear.

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THE LA CAVINIA

This is a view of Georgetown facing south from the Louisiana Midland RR crossing. To the right are what was then the Missouri Pacific RR tracks. To the left of the road is the old La Cavinia Hotel. At the time of this painting, the old depot had been demolished and the hotel was the "new" site of Dean's Grocery in addition to being the home of Stanley Pollard and family.