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Reading Between the Lines With a Tourist’s Letter from the Roosevelt Hotel, Hollywood, 19 February 1929

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Posted on February 19, 2021

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Take It On Faith: A Conjunction of Mainstream and Evangelical Christianity in a First Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles Program, February 1918
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The Black Pioneers of Los Angeles County: The Counting of African Americans in the 1880 Federal Census
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Winston Churchill, President Taft, and a chocolate pie walk into a bar. The bartender says, “Is this some kind of joke?” We don’t know either, but check out our blog post to discover the connection that sent us into the kitchen! #ArchivesCooking

"Long before Disneyland — even before Walt Disney moved here, in the summer of 1923 — Angelenos had the choice of dozens of themed mini-amusement parks right here. In carnival L.A., you could visit not just one but two ostrich farms, not just one but two private zoos, a monkey farm in Culver City and another in the Cahuenga Pass, and at least two lion farms: Jungleland, originally Goebel’s Lion Farm, in Thousand Oaks, and Gay’s Lion Farm, in El Monte, the place that MGM’s trademark snarling lions called home."

Before we had #BlackHistoryMonth, we had Negro History Week, established in February 1926 by Carter G. Woodson, the second Black American to earn a Ph.D. in history from Harvard University. Initially he chose the second week of February in recognition of the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. The week-long celebration was officially extended in 1976 by President Gerald Ford to “honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of Black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history.”

How do you describe a cafeteria to a friend in 1906 🤔: “You pick up a tray, walk along a counter, see dozens of different kinds of tempting food, select what you want and as much as you want, carry it to a table and start operations.” 😂

After 180 years, just how much has the Workman House changed? It has morphed from the headquarters of a vast ranch, to a sanitarium office, and finally to a remarkable place to talk about our region’s history.

When Charles Jenkins went off to fight in the Civil War he was in his mid-twenties, tall with dark hair and gray eyes. In or out of uniform he was quite a striking, handsome young man. He left no chronicle behind of his adventures with young women in Los Angeles, but he did keep a diary in 1865 from his time at Camp Parole in Maryland until his return to Los Angeles. Its pages are filled with descriptions of the battles he engaged in, the places he traveled to, and the women he was involved with along the way.

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