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John Cage A Year from Monday, Wesleyan University Press: Middletown, CN, 1967, 1931, 1929, 1926, 1924 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., 1929, See Text
Guy W. Finney . . . the Great Los Angeles Bubble, Forbes, 1929, 203 pp.
Paul J. Karlstrom and Susan Ehrlich Turning the Tide: Early Los Angeles Modernists 1920-1956, Barry M. Heisler Introduction Santa Barbara Museum of Art 1990, 1929 See Text
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), 1929 See Text
Karl Rydgren* (1914- ) I Remember, Unpublished Ms., 1975 [Reprinted 2005], 1929, See Text
Santa Monica Bay 1929 See Image
Amanda Schacter (ed.)
Santa Monica Landmarks Santa Monica Landmarks Commission,
1990.
8 Santa Monica Municipal Pier See
Text
Betty Lou Young and Randy Young Santa Monica Canyon: A Walk Through History Casa Vieja Press: Pacific Palisades, CA, 1997, 182pp., 1929 See Text
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John Cage A Year from Monday, Wesleyan University Press: Middletown, CN, 1967, 1931, 1929, 1926, 1924
p. 273 "When the depression began, I was in Europe. After a while I came back and lived with my family in the Pacific Palisades. . . . "
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., 1929, 1928
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"At Washington School . . . An adjustment room was established in 1929.
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"Named for James A. Garfield, former President of the United States, the school [Garfield Elementary] was honored by the late President's family when James R. Garfield, then Secretary of the Interior, personally presented it with a picture of his father. [26. Josephine O'Leary, Garfield School Annual Report, Unpublished written report to the Superintendent, June, 1929; in files of Santa Monica Board of Education, p. 4.] The picture remains as a valued possession of the school today [1952]."
" . . . the need for a junior college was recognized in 1929, and the program opened as an extension of the high school program."
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Santa Monica Junior College
Santa Monica Junior College was first organized in September of 1929, operating under the California Junior College Law of 1907. This law provided that:
"The board of trustees of any city, district union, joint union or county high school may prescribe postgraduate courses of study for the graduates of such high school, or other high schools, which courses of study shall approximate the studies prescribed in the first two years of university courses." [64. School Code, 1929, Sacramento: State Printing Office, 1929, Sec. 3.351.]
The Board of Education decided to keep abreast of the thirty-three other communities in California which provided such instruction, by extending the educational opportunities in Santa Monica from kindergarten through the junior college. [65. Board Minutes, Nov. 26, 1928.] Accordingly, rooms on the second floor of the high school were assigned to the junior college and it opened with a registration of 152 students. Additional students in February raised the total registration for the year to 228.
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Special Services
Many special services have been introduced in the Santa Monica schools during the years, some of the earlier ones being these: [46: Martin, op. cit., p. 60.]
1929 Home Teachers authorized.
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Guy W. Finney . . . the Great Los Angeles Bubble: A present-day story of colossal financial jugglerry and of penalties paid, Forbes, 1929, 203 pp.
Paul J. Karlstrom and Susan Ehrlich Turning the Tide: Early Los Angeles Modernists 1920-1956, Barry M. Heisler Introduction Santa Barbara Museum of Art 1990, 1929
" . . . In 1929, Annita Delano, a founding member of the UCLA art faculty, wrote to her friend Sonia Delaunay in Paris concerning the situation in Los Angeles:
""He [Stanton Macdonald-Wright*] said to tell you he was hiding away in a cave in Santa Monica by the sea. I will tell you he's painting some splendid things . . . he is still interested profoundly in oriental art . . . In architecture here in Los Angeles there are a few leaders. Quite a number of buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright and some by his son. There are two men, R.M. Schindler and Richard Neutra who represent tendencies similar to Corbusier & Gropius . . . ""
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), 1929, 1920s
Gambling Boats
"Gambling boats began to appear off the coast of Southern California in the late 1920s. Converted barges, ferries and grain ships were outfitted with neon lights and gaming tables and towed to mooring anchors just outside the three-mile jurisdiction of local authorities. Speedboats would ferry customers out to the floating casinos that sometimes offered entertainment and dancing as well as crap tables and roulette.
"One of the first boats was the Tango. It moored off-shore of Venice in 1929. Owned by Jim Lloyd, Cal Custer, Tony Cornero and Bill Blazer, the Tango was serviced by a fleet of water taxis operating from the Venice Pier."
Karl Rydgren* (1914- ) I Remember, Unpublished Ms., 1975 [Reprinted 2005], 1933, 1929, 1924, 1920s, 1919, 1914,
"My brother Todd and I used to wake up at 4 am and hurry to the pier to get on a bait boat and haul bait. When we turned 14 or 15, in the summer, we could go out on fishing boats and help the crew with the customers. We could also fish and later sell our fish and the crew's catch. After school at the John Adams Junior High School, we would haul fish for passengers from the pier landing to the parking lot by the La Monica Ballroom. We used a heavy hand truck and got 10 cents a sack.
"Fish were so plentiful you could catch a black Sea Bass from the end of the Pier. Once in a while we would get picked up by the police for fishing without license. The police would put our fish on the back of their trucks and take us down to the station. There they would lecture us and finally let us go, but our box of fish would be empty.
"On Labor Day, a fishing boat called Amico capsized, and 16 people drowned. I was supposed to go our on that boat, but it was so full, a buddy and I went home and learned about the accident later. We raced down to the Pier, and I stood with a brick in each hand to stop the curiosity-seekers from blocking the ambulances. A big cop named Chris Christianson walked by and said, "Nice job kid." My brother gave all his clothes to survivors, but ened up in overalls. He also gave artificial respiration to a young lady, but she didn't make it. The boat Freedom rescued many survivors without lifejackets, but also became dangerously overloaded. Other boats from the pier raced to help other surviviors.
"I washed dishes at the Fishnet Restaurant on the Pier, the fishing barges Minnie a Caine and Charlie Brown (owned by Olaf Olson) for a $1/day and all I could eat."
Amanda Schacter
(ed.) Santa Monica Landmarks Santa Monica Landmarks
Commission, 1990.
8 Santa Monica Municipal Pier
West end of Colorado Boulevard
Built: 1909, 1917, 1924
Designated 17 August 1976
"The Santa Monica Pier was originally two separately owned, adjacent piers: the Municipal Pier built in 1909, and the Pleasure Pier, built in 1916 by Charles I.D. Loof and privately owned. While the Municipal Pier was for strolling and fishing, Loof constructed amusement and food establishments on the Pleasure Pier, including the exotic Hippodrome building to house the Pier's carousel. Loof sold the Pleasure Pier in 1924 to a corporation which lengthened it that year and built the famed La Monica Ballroom. Although the ballroom was demolished in 1963, in its hey (sic) day the massive structure could accommodate as many as 10,000 people. The City has owned both Piers since the 1950's and, in 1970, assumed direct management. Since the 1970's the Piers have been known collectively as the Santa Monica Pier.
"The Hippodrome has housed three carousels over the years. The first carousel, installed by Loof, remained until 1939, when it was replaced by a carousel that had previously been located at the old Pacific Ocean Park Pier. The current carousel was built by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company in 1922 and was moved from Nashville, Tennessee to the Santa Monica Pier in 1947. The Hippodrome building was designated a National Historica Landmark in 1988. In addition, the entire Pier was named a County Historical Landmark in 1975.
"Other buildings of interest on the Pier include the Billiard Building, constructed on the the Pier in 1923, and the building know today as Sinbad's, originally constructed next to the Billiard Building in the early 1920s. The building remained there until 1929, when it was moved to its present location, adjacent to the site of the La Monica Ballroom. It served as the home of the La Monica Dancing Company and Hoyt's Chesapeake Cafe until the use changed in 1955 to "Sinbad's" restaurant."
Betty Lou Young and Randy Young Santa Monica Canyon: A Walk Through History Casa Vieja Press: Pacific Palisades, CA, 1997, 182pp., 1929
"Ed Carroll was the first captain of the county lifeguard service, which was formed in 1929-30 to serve Manhattan Beach and Santa Monica Canyon . . . . Helen "Skippy" Raymond [the first woman county lifeguard] . . .
" . . . George McManus, who served from opening day in 1930 until the city took over in 1949. George began his career as one of the first gondoliers on the Venice canals in 1905 and later served as a volunteer lifeguard at the Venice plunge . . ."