1930 (1929) (1931) (1920-1930) (1930-1940) Table of Contents
Casino Gardens Dance Pavilion, 1930
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., 1930 See Text
Becky M. Nicolaides, My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965, with photographs by Robbert Flick, The University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 2002, 1930 See Text
Santa Monica Municipal Bus, Pier Avenue turntable in Ocean Park, ca. 1930 See Image and Text
Les Storrs Santa Monica Portrait of a City Yesterday and Today, Santa Monica Bank: Santa Monica, CA, 1974, 67 pp., 1930 See Text
Betty Lou Young and Randy Young Santa Monica Canyon: A Walk Through History Casa Vieja Press: Pacific Palisades, CA, 1997, 182pp., 1930, See Text
550 A Walk Among the Palm Trees, California Post Card, Western Publishing and Novelty Co., Los Angeles, Calif., KR 1930 See Image and Text
Notes
Harry Carr Los Angeles City of Dreams (Illustrated by E.H. Suydam), D. Appleton-Century Co.: NY, 1935, 402 pp., 1935
Chapter XVIII The East A-Calling
" . . . By 1930 . . .
"The essential reason for the growth of deep sea shipping at San Pedro was, of course, the growth of the oil industry in Southern California.
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"[p. 228] Oil is the chief product going out of the harbor. In 1929 (from which year all these figures have been taken), tankers carrying 5,650,751 barrels of oil sailed for various countries with a value of $58,870,837. As has been shown this was not a peak year.
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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., 1930
" . . . and the daily supervised playground program [at Washington School] began in 1930 [49. Mary E. Baker, Washington School Annual Report (unpublished report to the superintendent of schools, June, 1930, p. 1.],
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. . . And the rapid growth of the student body within the first two years of the Junior College's existence clearly indicated the need for additional classrooms. [66. Martin, op. cit., p. 18.] Fortunately, the old Garfield Elementary School, conveniently located just north of the high school between Sixth and Seventh Streets on the east and west and Olympic Boulevard and Michigan Avenue north and south, became available in 1930. The building was remodeled for junior college use, and equipped with the necessary science laboratories and demonstration rooms. [67. Pearl, op. cit., p. 115.]
Ralph H. Bush, who had founded the nation's first junior college in Joliet, Illinois, was secured by the Board of Education to organize the new junior college in Santa Monica. Long an advocate of the junior college program, Bush enthusiastically set about establishing a curriculum and activities that would meet the needs of the post-high-school students in Santa Monica.
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Santa Monica Junior College offered two types of curricula: one to prepare students for entrance into a university upon their graduation from junior college; the other, of a semi-professional nature, to satisfy the needs of students wishing to complete a year or two of schooling beyond the high school level before seeking employment. [69. Ralph H. Bush Santa Monica Junior College Annual Report, 1930; in files of the Santa Monica Board of Education, p. 2.]
When the rebuilding and remodeling of the Garfield plant was completed, the new junior college campus contained sixteen sturdy bungalows housing laboratories, art and music departments, administrative and faculty offices, a field house, men's and women's lounge rooms, an auditorium, and a total of twenty-four classrooms. As the college continued to grow, additional bungalows were added to provide needed classrooms.
Becky M. Nicolaides, My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965, with photographs by Robbert Flick. The University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 2002, 1930
" . . . in 1930 . . .Many of the natural attractions&endash;like the beaches and mountains&endash;were free to all comers. As a result, outdoor recreation came to represent a sort of social leveler in Los Angeles, a place where people of different classes might mix. Although the upper classed tried to change this by establishing elite beach clubs, designed to keep away the "riffraff," most L.A. beaches remained open to a wide cross section of classes. The line, however, was drawn when it came to race. Nearly all Southern California beaches were off-limits to blacks, more by de facto practice than written law. Although no beaches explicitly prohibited blacks, public officials and public pressure encouraged blacks to use certain beaches set aside for them, such as a part of Santa Monica known as 'the Inkwell' and a section of Manhattan Beach." p. 90
Santa Monica Planning Division Santa Monica Landmarks Tour, 2003.
"The Third Street Neighborhood Historic District is the City's first Historic District. It consists of 38 contributing buildings constructed between 1875 and 1930. This small Ocean Park neighborhood illustrates many of the historical and architectural patterns that characterized the larger community. Historically, the neighborhood has ties to some of Santa Monica's most prominent early residents. Architecturally, the buildings chronicle the evolution of design from the Victorian era through the revival styles of the 1920s and 1930s, with an emphasis on hipped roof, turn-of-the-century cottages and Craftsman bungalows."
Santa
Monica Municipal Bus, Pier Avenue turntable in Ocean Park, ca. 1930 -
Adelbert Bartlett (Carolyn Bartlett Farnham Collection) Note the
Afro-Amercans at the back of the bus; Jack Posner, Jeweler, the Ocean
Park Hotel and Santa Monica Municipal Bus Lines No. 16
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Les Storrs Santa Monica Portrait of a City Yesterday and Today, Santa Monica Bank: Santa Monica, CA, 1974, 67 pp., 1930
Pp. 38, 39 [Photo captions: "; "This view from the air was made circa 1930. Taken from a point on the south side of Venice, it shows a small, long-gone pier in the foreground, then the big Venice amusement pier, only the breakwater seaward of which now remains, and the Ocean Park pier, the Crystal pier and the Santa Monica piers" [an aerial photo from the south side of Venice]"]
Betty Lou Young and Randy Young Santa Monica Canyon: A Walk Through History Casa Vieja Press: Pacific Palisades, CA, 1997, 182pp., 1930
[1930 photo on page ii of Rosemary and Vincent Romero and their cousin, Perfecto Marquez posing with a float, built by Ysidro Reyes II, based on a carreta from 1830, for the Ocean Park kiddie parade. The entry won first place. Rosemary Romero Miano]
"A modern lifeguard station was built at the mouth of the canyon in 1930 . . . and was manned by county lifeguards from 1930 to 1949. In 1933 the city of Santa Monica established its first lifeguard team, including three Palisadians . . . and sited its own tower next to the Santa Monica Swimming Club."
550 A Walk Among the Palm Trees, California Post Card, Western Publishing and Novelty Co., Los Angeles, Calif., KR 1930
550 A Walk Among the Palm Trees, California Post Card, Western Publishing and Novelty Co., Los Angeles, Calif., KR 1930 Franked with a green 1c Franklin and cancelled 29 May 1930, 1 pm, Los Angeles [ . . . Sta.], Addressed to Ms. A.J. Myers in Newville, PA, "Dear Friend, Having a delightful trip through the west. Will return to my office on or about July 20th. Dr. R.W. Pratt Opt. Eye-sight specialist. 26 W. 3rd St., Harrisburg, Pa.
