1914 (1913) (1915)(1900-1910) (1910-1920) Table of Contents
Note
Panama Canal opened for the short sea route to the east coast.
Documents
Donald M. Cleland A History of the Santa Monica Schools 1876-1951, Santa Monica Unified School District, February 1952 (Copied for the Santa Monica Library, July 22, 1963). 140 pp., 1914
John Adams Junior High School
The establishment of the John Adams Junior High School followed a pattern similar to that of the Lincoln Junior High School.
In September, 1914, John Adams opened its doors as an intermediate school housed in a building which, technically, was formed from the elementary school district. Besides Principal Tom Russell, who also taught grammar, spelling, and composition, there were three teachers in this early school. [20. Pearl, op. cit., p. 74.]
During the time that the John Adams School occupied the original site on Sixth Street and Ocean Park Boulevard, the facilities were far from adequate. The building had been planned as an elementary school; but when the need for an additional intermediate school for seventh and eighth grade became apparent, the Board designated the school for seventh and eighth grades. Consequently, the school had a continuous adjustment to the increased enrollment and to the changes that were necessary in the curriculum. [21. Loc. cit.]
[Santa Monica High Curricula]
An agricultural program was introduced into the course of study in 1914 with work in propagation and horticulture for those interested in this field as a career or for home use. . . .[68. Pearl, op. cit., p. 94.]
J. J. O'Connor and E. F. Robertson George Dantzig* (1914-2005) Biographies of Mathematicians http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Mathematicians/Dantzig_George.html, 2005, 1914
George Dantzig* (1914-2005), 2005, 1914
"Born: 8 Nov 1914 in Portland, Oregon, USA. [ d.13 May 2005]
"George Dantzig*'s parents were Tobias Dantzig and Anja Ourisson. Tobias was born in Russia, but went to France where he studied mathematics in Paris being taught there by Poincaré. At this time Tobias met Anja who was at the Sorbonne at this time also studying mathematics. They married and emigrated to the United States, settling in Oregon. Tobias believed that his strong Russian accent would prevent him from obtaining jobs other than as a labourer, and at first his jobs included that of lumberjack, road builder and painter. It was into this very poor family that George was born.
"Tobias and Anja chose names for their children hoping that these would influence their future careers. George was named "George Bernard" after George Bernard Shaw since his parents hoped their first child would become a writer. Similarly George's younger brother was named Henry after Henri Poincaré, and he did indeed become a mathematician. Tobias was fortunate to gain the chance of reading for a Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Indiana, while Anja obtained a Master's degree in French becoming a linguist at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C."
Program Photo of Cesare La Monica
A
Short Sketch of the Life of Cesare La Monica
(from an undated program), 1914, 1913, 1909, 1908, 1901,
1886
"Cesare La Monica was born in San Severo, Italy, Province of Foggia (Puglie), June 23rd, 1886, (about one hundred miles from Naples). Although his parents were not musicians, they loved music very much, and decided that their two sons should become musicians. Cesare began his studies at the age of seven. At the age of ten he played the cornet in the celebrated Banda Bianca (White Band), Italy's first-class band of 60 musicians. This was the rival ban of Banda Rossi (Red Band), from the same city in Italy which came to America under the direction of Sorrentino in 1908. Cesare traveled Italy with Band Bianca fro four years.
"His brother sent for him to come to America, he having been here one year, and in 1901 he came to America to play with Ellery's band, Creatore, director. (This was Creatore's first band in America.) Traveled America from coast to coast for three years. In 1908 Cesare had his first band in Los Angeles, meeting with great success. In 1909 he went to Santa Barbara for a three months' engagement, and he pleased the public to such an extent that his engagement lasted five years, giving daily concerts
"In 1913 he played at Idora Park in Oakland a six weeks' engagement, his band numbering 35 musicians. Also played in the Greek Theatre in Berkeley to a crowd of 12,000 people. He returned to Santa Barbara to finish his contract. In 1914 he came to Venice, starting an engagement on May 1st."
(His three quarter photo features a wedding band, epaulets, olive leaves on the cuffs, a Greek lyre shoulder patch, and two medals which look as though they should be emblematic.)
(On the facing page there is a photo of the twenty-three musician band, with the sign La Monaca Venice of America Band, hung between the stanchions of the Chimes and a marching standard, Venice of America Band.) In the first row, right to left, they identify "Domenico De Nisi, Bb Cornet; Erminio Di Lecce, Bb Cornet; Pasquale Santa Emma, Solo Bb Cornet; Guiseppe Rucci, Eb Clarinet; Gaetano Invone, Piccolo and Flute; Pietro Canelli, Solo Bb Clarinet; Levino Barilotti, Bb Clarinet: Antonio Scarpa, Bb Clarinet; Amodio Melillo, Bb Clarinet: Luigi Bellelli, Bb Clarinet, Soprano and Alto Saxophone.
"Back row right to left: Antonio Macario, Solo French Horn; Vincenzo Mignon, Melophone: Vincenzo Frezza, Melophone: Emidio Barilotti, Solo Baritone: Guiseppe Berardinelli, BBb Tuba: Cesare La Monaca. Director: Francesco Di Paola, Bb Tuba: Guiseppe Gallo, Solo Trombone: Luigi Basile, Slide Trombone and Baritone; Filippo Bosio, Slide Trombone: Giovanni Tripicchio, Slide Trombone: Camillo Zaccaro. Saxophone; Ferruccio Copppoli, Bass Drum and Chimes: Andrea D'Iorio, Snare Drum, Timpany. Bells and Trap."
James W. Lunsford The Ocean and the Sunset, The Hills and the Clouds: Looking at Santa Monica, illustrated by Alice N. Lunsford, 1983, 1914
Ocean Park
"43. Iglesia El Sermon de Monte, 2701 Second Street. This Assembly of God Church, originally the First Baptist Church, was constructed in 1914."
Esther McCoy Irving Gill 1870-1936 Five California Architects, 1960, Reprinted in Marvin Rand Irving J. Gill: Architect 1870-1936, Gibbs Smith, Publisher: Salt Lake City, UT, Design, Ahde Lahti; Photographs, Marvin Rand, 2006, 238 pp. pp. 219-227, 2006a, 1960, 1914
"In 1914 Gill was commissioned to design a house in West Hollywood by Walter L. Dodge, whose fortune had come from the product Tiz, "for tired feet."
"The preliminary plans were dated August 10, 1914, but the house was not finished until 1916. This was due to the extraordinary amount of detailing and, perhaps, also to the war in Europe. The building covered 6,500 square feet, and there were over 1,100 square feet of porches. Compared to the approximate rectangle of most of Gill's houses, the plan was sprawling, with a porch cutting a U into the north side and a walled court (p. 226) taking a corner from the south. The court, reached through the French doors of the dining room and breakfast room, served as an unroofed living area. The interweaving of inner and outer space was well suited to living needs; and the floor plan was unusually fluid.
"The 300-square-foot entrance hall was one of Gill's most beautiful rooms. The walls were entirely paneled in boards of Honduras mahogany, so meticulously matched that they gave the impression of a single slab of richly patterned wood. Although, today, plywood produced by machine methods achieve a similar effect, the character of the room lay deeper than in the fine craftsmanship or the historical importance of the flush detailing.
"It was the light from the stairwell that gave the room much of its beauty. Entering through 10-foot-high windows, which filled the north wall, the light extended the upper spaces and determined the shape of the room. It warmed the wood to life, and emphasized the chasteness of the balustrade and the fine joinery of the handrail.
"The paneling of the first floor was continued in the second-floor hall as a wainscot. Another fine detail was the hall's flush storage cabinet for linens.
"The plan for the master bedroom was unusual for 1914. The bath tub, shower and toilet were placed in skylighted compartments, which could be entered from either of the two large dressing rooms. Storage cabinets and wardrobe closets filled two walls of each dressing room.
"In this reinforced concrete house, Gill accomplished what he had started out to do in 1908, when he first began his study of concrete construction as an art. It was to bring concrete to the architectural importance of stone.
"The Dodge house was not only a fulfillment, it was also a promise of change. The plan was freer than usual and the elevations were varied, puzzlingly so upon first encounter. The south elevation with its rhythm of arches did not predict the severe west elevation. The north side, with its deeply inset porch and the play of roof stack forms against the masses, showed a preoccupation with depth.
"The plan spread out in ranch-like fashion to include a raised swimming pool and garage. The romantic gardens to the north, with their fountains and loggia, gave way on the east to propagating sheds, a corral and pergolas in wooded settings.
"In the early forties, Theodore Dreiser lived across the street from the Dodge house and could often be seen strolling through the neglected grounds; his last book contains a description of a crumbling pergola overrun with vines.
Ocean Park Pier Panorama, 1914
Ocean Park Pier Panorama, Detail, 1914
David Trotter All of a Tremble: A Review of Hanns Zischler's Kafka Goes to the Movies, trans. by Susan Gillespie, Chicago: 2003, London Review of Books, 4 March 2004, p. 28, 1914
" . . . Karl Rossman, in The Man who Disappeared, escaping from the police, skids on one leg round a corner in a way that seems thoroughly Chaplinesque, and could just conceivably have been meant as such. Kafka had six chapters of the novel in draft by December 1912, and resumed work on it in autumn 1914; Chaplin's tramp took shape in Kid Auto Races at Venice, a Keystone comedy released on 7 February 1914 . . . "
2635 Fourth Street, Craftsman Bungalow (Third Street Historic District) Built 1914 for George E. Tupper. Photographed 1982- 83 for the City of Santa Monica Historic Resources Inventory. 1999, 1983, 1982, 1914
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Gas Tractors Plowing, Discing and Seeding, 1914
Gas Tractors Plowing, Discing and Seeding, Postmarked Boise Idaho, 3:30 pm Mar. 17, 1914 (Boise Book & Stationary Company, Boise, Idaho. No. A-6719 Photo only copyrighted 1909 J.R. Smith Land Co., Beach, No, Dak.)
Addressed to Mr. Rex Roberts R. Fr, D. No. 5, Grand Rapids, Mich. Mar. 17/14 Dear Rex:- I am with Alva in Idaho where they farm on a big scale-It is some colder up here than in So. Calif. I saw the first ice pond up here that I have seen in five years. Snow on the north side of hills and the tops of Mts. Everybody well and send their love to all." Uncle Alva
