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Kitchen Table Kibitzing April 13, 2025 [1]
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Date: 2025-04-13
Shadow of a Doubt
Monthly in summer, Santa Rosa sponsors docent-led tours of our Rural Cemetery. We have attended them for years; interesting plus it’s a beautiful venue. Yesterday’s included seeing the homes along elegant McDonald Avenue. We learn of Santa Rosa’s history through stories about prominent citizens buried in the cemetery.
Colonel Mark L. McDonald, Sr., a Kentucky native, came west as captain of a wagon train in the early 1850s. Trained in engineering, he first built roadways servicing gold and silver mines. His early successes allowed him to buy a seat on the San Francisco Stock Exchange, during which time he joined the ranks of the rich and powerful, including George Hearst, Leland Stanford and Charles Crocker.
He focussed his attention toward Santa Rosa, and built a summer “cottage” there, now called the McDonald Mansion. In the last few years it was restored at a cost of 22 million dollars. I toured it many years ago; even has a billiards room.
This next home was used for radium treatments in the 20s and 30s. A flyer proclaimed the radium treatments could cure almost any human ailments. This was discontinued when the Radium dial painter scandal became known.
Typical automobile parked along McDonald Ave.
Santa Rosa has been the location of over 30 major movies www.facebook.com/…. One of the more famous is Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt. This is the very home used in the movie. The story is that the film crew was very destructive of the house and property, and paid the generous owners…..nothing!
Last night we rented Shadow of a Doubt on Amazon and watched it, being very curious of what we could see of early Santa Rosa, and the home used in the film. As we watched, the sound of the dialog began to dissociate from the actor’s lips. Then, at the actual plot crisis moment, the film borked, and we got an Amazon website address to go and try to resolve the problem. We don’t know what happens!
Many of you have seen the movie. Don’t tell us; we may get to re-see it.
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