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YMCA exercise group
Ed Harloff (center right), a family friend and local car dealer in Encinitas, CA.
Unidentified training event
Unidentified training event. Back of photo labeled: "Pete Hall and Fuji Rodriguez preparing the boys."
Unidentified event
Unidentified event with different hot sauces for tasting
Unidentified event
Unidentified event in greenhouse with presumably Paul Ecke Sr. attending
Transportation truck at Ecke Ranch
Lower right: Paul Ecke Sr.. The truck would head to the Encinitas Train Station to ship boxes of bare root poinsettias. Customers would plant them and they would grow into large plants. Cut poinsettias would then be harvested from them.
Summer employee party, Range 14, Paul Ecke Ranch, Encinitas, CA
Summer employee party, Range 14, Paul Ecke Ranch, Encinitas, CA
Summer employee party, Range 14, Paul Ecke Ranch, Encinitas, CA
Summer employee party, Range 14, Paul Ecke Ranch, Encinitas, CA.
Shipping bare root poinsettias by rail
Picture taken at the Encinitas Train Station, in downtown Encinitas. Second from left: Charlie McCarver. Behind him: Ernie Ruth.
Retirement party for Franz Fruehwirth, Ranch house patio at the Paul Ecke Ranch, Encinitas
Retirement party for Franz Fruehwirth, chief poinsettia breeder, Paul Ecke Ranch. Seated next to him is his wife Lilo. Behind - Paul Ecke III. At the podium - Steve Rinehart, COO of the Ranch.
Paul Ecke Sr.'s bedroom in the "new" house on the Ecke Ranch, Encinitas, CA
Paul and Magdalena Ecke moved into their "new" (second) house on the Ecke Ranch, Encinitas, CA in 1957. This is the same house he passed away in at age 96.
Paul Ecke Sr.'s 80th birthday party
Paul Ecke Sr's 80th birthday party in one of the Ecke Ranch Barns.
Paul Ecke Sr.'s 80th birthday party
Paul Ecke Sr.'s 80th birthday party in Barn 2, the Paul Ecke Ranch, Encinitas, CA.
Paul Ecke Sr. with office staff
Third from left: Mable __. Far right: Blick Blinkenstaff, office manager.
Paul Ecke Sr. in the Bird of Paradise fields on the Ecke Ranch, Encinitas, CA
Paul Ecke Sr. in the the Bird of Paradise fields on the Encinitas Ranch looking north. The white sleeves were put over the flowers to protect them.