Billy Shannon in the doorway of his Villa. The rest of them are fight promoters; the Villa was a prize fighter training quarters. The "AM" on the sign is the ending of "San Rafael Steam Beer," a local product, [which] had to be drawn very slowly. Opposite Coppa's Villa, Fourth Street at West End.

Roy D. Graves Pictorial Collection

BANC PIC 1905.17500.47:180--ALB

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