1928 (1927)(1929)(1920-1930)(1930-1940) Table of Contents
Harry Carr Los Angeles City of Dreams (Illustrated by E.H. Suydam), D. Appleton-Century Co.: NY, 1935, 402 pp. See Text
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., 1928 See Text
James W. Lunsford The Ocean and the Sunset, The Hills and the Clouds: Looking at Santa Monica, illustrated by Alice N. Lunsford, 1983, 1928, 1910 See Text
Fairchild Aerial Surveys-City of Santa Monica north to south (north-right side of the image): Santa Monica High School (Pico Blvd. and Seventh Street)/John Adams Junior High School (515 Ocean Park Blvd.)/Ocean Park Blvd. June 1928 -City of Santa Monica, See Photo
Tom Moran and Tom Sewell Fantasy by the Sea Peace Press: Culver City, CA, 1980 (1979) (Originally published by Beyond Baroque Foundation with a grant from the Visual Arts Program of the National Endowment for the Arts), 1928 See Text
Jack Smith The Big Orange Ward Ritchie Press: Pasadena, CA, 1976. Santa Monica 1933, 1928, 1900, 1875, 1869, 1769, 1542 See Text
Gregory Weinstein The Ardent Eighties, International Press: New York, 1928, 182 pp. Obtained at the John Muir Elementary and Olympic High Swap Meet, Ocean Park, February 2, 2008 (Signed by Gregory Weinstein, "To Jacob Mousky, A man with spunk and a smile") Reprinted copies of the book are available from Googlebooks., 1920s, 1910s, 1900s, 1890s, 1880s See Text
Published this year:
Anita Loos "But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes," Boni & Liveright: NY, (illustrated by Ralph Barton), 1928, 248pp. Second Printing, 1928
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Harry Carr Los Angeles City of Dreams (Illustrated by E.H. Suydam), D. Appleton-Century Co.: NY, 1935, 402 pp.
Chapter XXVI Our Literati
"[p. 343] There are three in this group-Helen Hunt Jackson, Horace Bell and Charles F. Lummis [1859-1928] . . .
"Lummis may be said to be the literary discoverer of Western America. He was a young Harvard graduate when in 1883 he started to walk across the continent . . . probably the first to do so since Cabeza de Vaca. He got to Arizona in time to witness the surrender of Victorio and other Apache chiefs and to rescue from oblivion their moving and eloquent speeches of farewell . . . farewell to an era that was passing away before the steam-roller of the white man's civilization. Lummis came to Los Angeles and became city editor (and most of the reportorial staff) of the Los Angeles Times-then a struggling country paper. But as he wrote murders, lawsuits and the gossip of the pueblo, his mind went back to the sun-splashed adobes of New Mexico- . . .
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"[p. 344] . . . edited The Land of Sunshine; then was changed to Out West . . .
"[p. 345] . . . started the Southwest Museum . . .
" . . . became the [Los Angeles City Librarian . . .
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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., 1928
By 1928, [at John Adams Junior High at Sixth and Ocean Park Blvd.] the enrollment had reached 700 pupils, and during the intervening years the building program had not kept pace with the increase in pupil population. True, a classroom wing of six rooms had been added, and a cafeteria unit installed in the basement; there were boys' and girls' gymnasiums, two shop buildings, and a four-room-bungalow extension on the west side of the main building. [22. Idem.] But these had long since proved to be inadequate. Moreover, as the enrollment continued to climb, the Board deemed it unwise to add further buildings to an already crowded site.
James W. Lunsford The Ocean and the Sunset, The Hills and the Clouds: Looking at Santa Monica, illustrated by Alice N. Lunsford, 1983, 1928, 1910
Ocean Park
"28. Virginia Apartments, 2804 1/2 Main Street. The long-time home of Bertha May King, undefeated World Women's Billiards Champion, who held the championship from 1910 until her retirement in 1928."
Tom Moran and Tom Sewell Fantasy by the Sea Peace Press: Culver City, CA, 1980 (1979) (Originally published by Beyond Baroque Foundation with a grant from the Visual Arts Program of the National Endowment for the Arts), 1928
Albert Marco
"Albert Marco was viewed by the Los Angeles presss as a "vice lord" and the "black baron of vice." The racketeer was often seen in the company of Philadelphia gangster, Max Hoff and other underworld figures.
"It was well after midnight, June 27, 1928, when Marco and three companions visited the Ship's Cafe in Venice. Marco was well known at the nightspot and manager Tommy Jacobs personally welcomed him. The foursome was seated, and the George Redman band was playing on stage.
"As the evening progressed Marco become embroiled in an argument with other customers that escalated into fist fighting. . . . the gangster reached for his gun and fired twice. Two men were wounded and the fight stopped." . . . Police Officer John Brunty arrested him on the top floor of the nightclub. Marco was sentence to state prison and eventually deported to Italy."
Fairchild Aerial Surveys-City of Santa Monica north to south (north-right side of the image): Santa Monica High School (Pico Blvd. and Seventh Street)/John Adams Junior High School (515 Ocean Park Blvd.)/Ocean Park Blvd. (Job#C235) June 1928 -City of Santa Monica
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Jack Smith The Big Orange Ward Ritchie Press: Pasadena, CA, 1976. Santa Monica 1933, 1928, 1900, 1875, 1869, 1769, 1542
Santa Monica
"'Title to the ocean, the sunset, and the air is guaranteed by God.'
"The Santa Monica pier is antique. Naturally many people want to tear it down. Naturally, many people want to leave it up. At best, it is on reprieve. It has an embattled look, somewhat misshapen and askew. It creaks and groans on its weathered pilings, and supports a ramshackle row of shops, fish markets, galleries and cafes. At its shore end it is ornamented by an enchanting old merry-go-round." pp. 248 and 249
"It has stood there throughout the century, this Victorian playhouse, while generations of concrete buildings have come and gone. the little horses of the carousel are exuberantly sculptured, obviously of Arab blood, with wild eyes and flaring nostrils. The old organ pounds and clangs and wheezes as if trying gallantly to finish this one last song before expiring. A sign tells its story:
"'Welcome friend. The music you are listening to is coming from one of the oldest organs in the country, built in 1900 . . . Constantly playing for seventy years. The merry-go-round has the happiest record in the U.S. The horses were imported from Germany and are all hand-carved. There are no two horses alike. Your grandparents and mom and dad probably rode this ride when they were children. All the great actresses, and their children, too. Come aboard, close your eyes and listen to the music . . . '
"This was the first merry-go-round my own sons had ridden. We had lived in Venice then; the older boy was three . . .
""Fishing is free from the end of the pier, and there is always a hardy group of fishermen out there, whatever the hour and the weather. . . .
"He looked out at the breakwater, a ragged dark line, like the back of some enormous sea monster. It had been made of great blocks of granite, many of which had tumbled into the sea.
"'Fishing hasn't been so good here, though,' he said, 'since they built that new breakwater.'
"'New?' I said.
"'Well, new in Thirty-three, it was. I been fishing here since Twenty-eight.'" p. 250
"It seemed incredible that only a hundred years ago there was nothing here but land, sea and sky. An Easterner, writing years later of a visit he made to this shore in 1869, recalled that it was 'an unpeopled waste - no light (dressed) brigade of sportive bathers charged the angry surf; neither keel nor oar vexed the breakers that broke on the desolate shore.'
"Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo and his crew were the first white men to see Santa Monica Bay, on their voyage of 1542. Then two hundred and twenty-seven years passed before Gaspar de Portolá and his soldiers camped at a spring above the bay. It is said that one of Portolá's men named the place Santa Monica, likening the spring water to the saint's tears for her wayward son, Augustine.
"It was another century before John P. Jones, a Nevada senator, and Colonel R.S. Baker, a cattleman, who had bought the old Mexican land grants, formed a township, filed maps and started selling lots. The sale was held on a hot day in 1875. They hired Tom Fitch, an orator and auctioneer of note. Hundreds of people buggied down from Los Angeles to hear Fitch and to see the ocean. Both were magnificent.
"Fitch promised that anyone who bought a lot in Santa Monica would have the Pacific Ocean as a backdrop, with a daily sunset of 'scarlet and gold' and 'a bay filled with white-winged ships.'
"He went on to say that the title to the land was guaranteed by his employers, but the title to 'the ocean, the sunset and the air is guaranteed by God.'" p. 251
Gregory Weinstein The Ardent Eighties, International Press: New York, 1928, 182 pp. Obtained at the John Muir Elementary and Olympic High Swap Meet, Ocean Park, February 2, 2008 (Signed by Gregory Weinstein, "To Jacob Mousky, A man with spunk and a smile") Reprinted copies of the book are available from Googlebooks.
The author recounts the pogroms of the 1880's which drove his family from Europoe, and recounts his attempts to live righteously in a society which he sees as better than absolute monarchy, but still short of its promise of democracy for workers, and ordinary people.
