Vintage Jonathan Club Los Angeles Tile coasters Rare lot of three Measures about 4-1/2" square Pre-owned, good condition, some signs of aging and wear, possibly actual well tiles that were repurposed as coasters Item location: Back warehouse, Center Right, 3rd Bay, Bottom Shelf, U35 From Wikipedia: Prominent members of the Jonathan Club include: John D. Bicknell, founder of law firm that became Gibson, Dunn Crutcher Herman Wolf Hellman, founder of Farmers Merchants Bank; real estate investor Henry Huntington, railroad builder; land developer; rare art and book collector James Boon Lankershim, land developer John D. Spreckels, sugar and steamship entrepreneur Meredith Pinxton Snyder, banker; Los Angeles police chief, city councilman and mayor (three times) Peter Janss, developed East Los Angeles communities; philanthropist Edward Laurence Doheny, oilman Maurice Newmark, family built merchandise and grocery business into largest firm in Los Angeles Harry Chandler, publisher of the Los Angeles Times Mericos Hector Whittier, oil industry pioneer; land developer William Wrigley Jr., chewing gum magnate A.P. Giannini, founder of Bank of Italy (later Bank of America) Edgar Rice Burroughs, adventure and science fiction author Robert A. Millikan, experimental physicist; recipient of the Nobel Prize; longtime president of California Institute of Technology Admiral C.C. Bloch, commander of 14th Naval District during Dec. 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor George Pepperdine, founded Western Auto Supply; philanthropist; endowed George Pepperdine College (later Pepperdine University) Jesse Louis Lasky, created first permanent feature film company in what would become Hollywood; a founder of Paramount Pictures Tom Mix, early Western movie star Gordon Bernie Kaufman, prominent architect Rear Admiral Isaac Campbell Kidd, career U.S. Naval officer who perished aboard USS Arizona in 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor; posthumously received Medal of Honor El Warren, governor of California; chief justice of U.S. Supreme Court Buster Keaton, silent screen star Hal Roach, comedy writer, director and producer; created Hal Roach Studios Harold Lloyd, comedy movie star in silents and talkies; founded own studio Edmund G. Brown, lawyer and politician; governor of California Paul Gray Hoffman, automobile executive; president of Ford Foundation; received Medal of Freedom for work as first administrator of Marshall Plan after WWII John A. McCone, industrialist; head of Atomic Energy Commission; director of CIA; headed McCone Commission to investigate causes of 1965 Watts riots and propose cures to avoid future outbreaks Ronald Reagan, movie actor; governor of California; president of the United States Arnold O. Beckman, prolific chemist and inventor; industrialist; funded first transistor company and fueled creation of Silicon Valley; philanthropist, including to Caltech where he studied and taught Peter O?Malley, owner and president of Los Angeles Dodgers