Earle C. Anthony

[5] A replica of this car, made in the 1920s with parts of the original automobile, is exhibited in the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles.

On 22 February 1904, Anthony and his father opened the Western Motor Car Company in Los Angeles,[6] as a dealer for National, Northern and Thomas automobile brands, and the following year he acquired a Packard distributorship.

Anthony constructed a 50 watt transmitter,[9] on a breadboard, on his kitchen table,[10] received a license from the Department of Commerce,[10] and began broadcasting as KFI on April 16, 1922.

He also was a founder of one of the earliest television stations in Los Angeles, KFI-TV (channel 9, now KCAL-TV), and KFI-FM (105.9 MHz, now defunct),[13] both of which were disposed of in 1951.

In the Summer of 1957, Anthony acquired two franchises for the ill-fated Edsel, a new, medium-priced car from Ford Motor Company, one in San Francisco and one in Los Angeles.

[10]) He was also a pioneer in inter-urban bus transportation, founding a company later incorporated into Pacific Greyhound lines[10] and had a role in the development of car radios.

After the death of Anthony's wife the home was purchased in the early fifties by Sir Daniel J. and Countess Bernardine Murphy Donohue.

The interior of the Nordic entrance tower was furnished by Donohue as a replica of the Pope's prayer room at the Vatican in Rome.

2014-2019,[25] Anthony's, Bernard Maybeck designed, 8-acre estate with 30,000 square feet of living space, a pool, tower and prayer house was to be sold for $14.5 million by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles to Katy Perry, but disputed by Canfield-Moreno Estate owner Dana Hollister, restaurateur, and the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.