Santa Clarita Valley History In Pictures

W.C. Fields At Home
Newhall, California

Actor W.C. Fields in the doorway of his 8th Street home in Newhall, c. 1935.

Vaudevillian Charles "Charlie" Mack built this gingerbread house around 1924, along with two smaller cottages in the same style up the street. Mack died in 1934; Fields occupied the main house for the next year or two.

Further reading: 8th Street Home Popular with Vaudeville Greats.


LW2125b: 9600 dpi jpeg from book page ("W.C. Fields by Himself," W.C. Fields Productions Inc., 1973 | Reprinted by permission)
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Newhall 1935

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Newhall 1935

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