1932 (1931) (1933) (1920-1930) (1930-40) Table of Contents
Harry Carr Los Angeles City of Dreams (Illustrated by E.H. Suydam), D. Appleton-Century Co.: NY, 1935, 402 pp., 1935, 1932, See Text
Harry Carr The West Is Still Wild, (Illustrated by Charles H. Owens) Houghton Mifflin Co., The Riverside Press: Boston and New York, 1932, 257 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., 1932 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) 1924, 1932 See Text
Jeffrey Stanton Venice of America: 'Coney Island of the Pacific,' Donahue Publishing: Los Angeles, CA, 1987. 176 pp., 1932 See Text
Betty Lou Young Our First Century: The Los Angeles Athletic Club 1880-1980, LAAC Press: Los Angeles, California 1979, 176pp., 1932 See Text
Note
1932 Los Angeles Olympics
Documents
Harry Carr Los Angeles City of Dreams (Illustrated by E.H. Suydam), D. Appleton-Century Co.: NY, 1935, 402 pp., 1935
Chapter XV Underneath the Surface
p. 186 "The bringing of the Olympic Games to Los Angeles was the result of more than five years' ceaseless propagands-including several trips to Europe by leading citizens of the pueblo. The technical arrangements-once the games were assured-represented two years work by experts. They turned out to be by all odds the most successful games ever held. At other games the athletes had had difficulty finding lodging; therre were no practice tracks; the newspaper men were driven to the verge of insanity trying to find out what had happened.
"The Olympic committee in Los Angeles erected a village for the athletes on Angelus Mesa-the old Baldwin ranch. Water of the exact chemical properties of their drinking water at home was provided for each team-also native cooks for each country. In front of each working sportswriter in the press stand was a stock ticker, continuously printing out the results and figures-not only at the track in front of his eyes, but at other places where boat races, horsemanship events, fencing matches were going on. The tracks were lightning fast; they were of peat-impossible in any country where rains are uncertain.
"Not only were nearly all world's records broken; but the games had a profound and beneficial effect upon the inter-[p. 187]national relations of the United States-especially as regards Japan.
"The Japanese cavalry officers were the first team on the ground. The bombardment of Shanghai had just occurred with unfortunate repercussions. The Japanese came with the defensive manner of a cat walking into a strange garret. They were received with open arms. They became the undoubted heroes of the games . . .
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"[p. 188] . . . Although our cheers for the Japanese were innocent enthusiams without guile, we learned a lot about internationalisms during the Games.
Harry Carr The West Is Still Wild, (Illustrated by Charles H. Owens) Houghton Mifflin Co., The Riverside Press: Boston and New York, 1932, 257 pp. Dedicated in Ink to Travis Johnson, "With Best Wishes," Harry Carr and "Sincerely," Chas. HO (Bronco Stamp).
[I finished reading this two weeks ago, May 15, 2009, finding it barely relevant ot my task of outlining a history of Ocean Park, as it can be seen in my notes below. I finished reading the 1993 Smithsonian article about General Lea by Alexander a week ago, discovering there that Henry Carr was a good friend and a promotor of General Homer Lea. I have ordered other books by Henry Carr.]
p. 28 " . . . my Apache friends . . . they have summer house at Malibu at the end of a prehistoric trail, so in Palm Springs the movie people have come to play in what was an old civilization."
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., 1932
Chapter V School Development in Adversity
When Percy R. Davis became Superintendent of Schools in 1932 Santa Monica, like the rest of the nation, was already in the throes of the financial depression which characterized most of the decade between 1930 and 1940. Future prospects for the schools were unpredictable, for lack of funds, ordinarily accruing for school purposes from various tax sources, in addition to heavy indebtedness, harassed the Board of Education and the school administration. General conditions were by no means auspicious; yet to Superintendent Davis, adversity presented a challenge that a less able man might well have found it impossible to meet. With characteristic foresight and efficiency, he began immediately to examine the issues to which he had fallen heir. Then, less than a year after his assumption of office, disaster struck. The earthquake of 1933 overnight rendered most of the schools unsafe for occupancy and added immeasurably to the new superintendent's already numerous problems. How these problems were met and in what ways the schools were further developed during these trying years, is the subject of the present chapter.
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) 1924, 1932
Aquatics
" . . . Wallace O'Connor . . . won gold and bronze medals in both the 1924 and 1932 Olympic games."
Jeffrey Stanton Venice of America: 'Coney Island of the Pacific,' Donahue Publishing: Los Angeles, CA, 1987. 176 pp., 1932
"In May the Southern California water polo team, composed mostly of Venice swimmers, won the West Coast championship. Five Venice men including Wally O'Conner (captain), Phil Daubenspeck, Charles Finn, Herb Wildman and Bill O'Conner won positions on the United States water polo team. The team upset Brazil and Japan in the playoffs and tied Germany 4-4 in the semi-finals. But in the August 11th final match, they lost to Hungary 7-0."
Betty Lou Young Our First Century: The Los Angeles Athletic Club 1880-1980, LAAC Press: Los Angeles, California 1979, 176 pp., 1932