Fred Fisher was a German-born American songwriter and Tin Pan Alley music publisher.
Charles Tomlinson Griffes was an American composer for piano, chamber ensembles and voice.
Faxon Dean Atherton (1815–1877) was an American businessman and landowner, and was a prominent citizen of San Mateo County, California. He is the namesake of Atherton, California.
Jack Caddigan was a Boston lyricist who is credited with the words to over fifty songs written between 1911 and 1922.
Jean Paul Kürsteiner was an American pianist, pedagogue, music publisher, and composer of piano pieces and art songs.
Surprise was a California clipper built in East Boston in 1850. It initially rounded Cape Horn to California, but the vessel's owners, A. A. Low & Brother, soon found that the vessel performed well in Far Eastern waters. From that point onward the vessel spent much of her working life in the China trade, although the vessel also made three trips from the East Coast of the United States to California.
Witchcraft was a clipper built in 1850 for the California and China trade. She made record passages from Rio de Janeiro to San Francisco, and from San Francisco to Callao, Peru.
Abe Olman, born Abraham Olshewitz, was an American songwriter and music publisher. He composed a number of successful ragtime and popular songs including "Red Onion Rag" (1912), "Down Among the Sheltering Palms" (1915), "Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh!" (1917), and "Down By the O-Hi-O" (1920). He was later director of ASCAP, and a founder of the Songwriters Hall of Fame which, in 1983, named the annual Abe Olman Publisher Award in his honor.
Al Piantadosi August 18, 1882 New York City – April 8, 1955 Encino, California) was an American composer of popular music during the heyday of Tin Pan Alley. He started out as a saloon and vaudeville pianist and rapidly flourished as a songwriter. For about ten years — from 1918 to 1928, he was an independent music publisher.
Robert Levenson was a lyricist active in Boston in the late 1910s.
Vincent Charles Plunkett was an American composer and illustrator of popular songs active in Boston and Los Angeles between 1915 and 1925.
Albert Lincoln (“Bert”) Potter was a composer of popular songs active between 1904 and 1917.
Oliver E. (“Chick”) Story was a composer, publisher, and performer active in Boston from 1910 to 1925.
Roger A. Graham was an American lyricist, composer, singer, and music publisher who flourished from 1906 to 1920 — a period that included World War I, the golden age of Tin Pan Alley, the dawn of the Jazz Age (circa 1914), and the silent film era. Graham was a proponent of vaudeville and burlesque songs. But as a lyricist and publisher, Graham is most remembered for having been an exponent of blues songs.
Alfred Solman was a prominent composer of popular songs in America in the first two decades of the twentieth century.
Wallie Herzer(néWalter Henry Herzer; 15 April 1885 San Francisco – 15 October 1961 Redwood City, California) was an American composer of popular music, music publisher, and pianist. Herzer flourished in music prior to and during World War I. The Columbia recording of his 1912 composition, "Everybody Two-Step" — performed by ragtime pianist Mike Bernard on December 2, 1912, in New York City — is the first recording of ragtime music. It became a hit and coincided at the start of a renewed craze for ragtime and dance — fifteen years after William Krell's "Mississippi Rag" had been published, the first known published music with "rag" in the title. Several other recordings of "Everybody Two-Step" became hits. Herzer composed three other hits — a 1913 piano rag, "Tickle the Ivories" – which also became hit as a vocal arrangement; a 1914 foxtrot song, "Get Over, Sal"; and a 1916 Hawaiian waltz song, "Aloha Land". Other compositions — including his 1908 piano ragtime two-step and barn dance, "The Rah-Rah Boy", and his 1913 rag turkey trot, "Let's Dance" — were internationally distributed.
Addison Burkhardt was a librettist and lyricist from about 1903 to 1922 and a Hollywood script and scenario writer thereafter.
The Peninsula Theatre was a movie palace in Burlingame, California, that ran from 1926 to 1974. In 1957, the name was changed to Fox Burlingame. The theater was shuttered in 1974 and demolished in 1975 to make way for a shopping mall.
