$UHYLHZRI7KH%URDGZD\·V WHDDSSHDUHGLQWKHLos Angeles Times1RYHPEHU ´7KLVDQQXDOHYHQWKDVJURZQ to great proportions; and is more interesting each year. The beautiful Garden Café forms a charming background for the hundreds RIÁXWWHULQJJLUOLVKIURFNVDQG ribbons; and the orderly way in which the crowd is handled is truly businesslike. Such quaint, adorable dresses the little girls were wearing! And the dolls were equally well dressed. And the manners of the little ladies left nothing to be GHVLUHG²DQGWKHER\VDOVRZHUH SROLWH²RQHPXVWQRWIRUJHW,OLNH the new-old manner of curtseying," ZURWHWKHUHYLHZHU´GRQ·W\RX" With one little foot 'scraped' backward, just as grandmother used to make her bow..." H. C. Capwell's - Oakland H. C. Capwell's tea parties began LQ6LQFH&DSZHOO·VWHDVZHUH held on the store's roof, its dates ZHUHVRPHWLPHVDGYHUWLVHGDV ÁH[LEOH²GHSHQGLQJRQWKHZHDWKHU ,ILWUDLQHGWKHWHDZRXOGEHPRYHG to a sunnier date. The Oakland Tribune recounted one tea, "The reception was held in the beautiful Italian roof garden. Here an orchestra played throughout the afternoon... It took all afternoon WRVHUYHDOOWKHOLWWOHJXHVWVDV WKHUHZHUHRYHURIWKHP«µ 1RYHPEHU Royal Bayreuth created the cups and saucers used during Emery Bird Thayer's 1913 tea party. The cups featured at least six different nursery rhymes. These teacups picture "Little Miss Muffet" and "Jack and the Beanstalk." Neal Foster Collection Photograph by Bruce Mathewshttp://ufdc.org