Monday, May 20, 2013—The Pacific Palisades Stories fromWestside Chronicles by Jan Loomis Presented by the Pacific Palisades Historical Society 7:00 PM Monday, May 20, 2013 Theatre Palisades 941 Temescal Canyon Road, Pacific Palisades Pacific Palisades is located on the original land grant presented to the Marquez and Reyes families in 1839. The Boca De Santa Monica was home to the families and their herds of cattle and horses until the late 1800s when men like Collis Huntington, Abbott Kinney, and Robert Conran Gillis began to look to the Boca as a place to develop housing and communities. Charles H. Scott was a Methodist minister charged with finding a new permanent home for the Chautauqua movement in Southern California. In 1921, he and a number of other prominent Angelenos formed the Pacific Palisades Association and created Pacific Palisades. Jan Loomis will tell these and other stories about Pacific Palisades in her talk May 20th. Her book, Westside Chronicles, will be available for sale, and she will be happy to autograph books after the program. Los Angeles sprawled westward toward the sand and sea of Santa Monica Bay throughout the twentieth century as land-grant ranchos gave way to capitalists and promoters. Developers subdivided the coastal land into neighborhoods and communities: Santa Monica, Brentwood, Bel-Air, Westwood, Venice, Ocean Park, Pacific Palisades, Malibu and Marina del Rey. These became places known to the nation at large for movie stars, moguls and business tycoons; for Will Rogers, Henry Huntington and UCLA; and for estate homes, amusement piers and surfing beaches. Join Jan Loomis, a former West L.A. magazine publisher and historian, as she tells the stories behind how it all came to be West Los Angeles. A fascination with old photographic images led Jan Loomis to her interest in the development of West Los Angeles. The photographs were part of the records of the Santa Monica Land & Water Company (SML&WCo). The company developed much of West Los Angeles including Brentwood and Pacific Palisades. The archives document the developments and the developers. Westside Chronicles tells those stories. Her career has included stints as an editor and publisher of magazines and newsletters. She has also developed numerous electronic information sites for both publishers and dot-com companies. Loomis has published many articles about local Los Angeles history and about electronic content. She is also a frequent speaker at historical associations and library groups in West Los Angeles. On a personal note, she has been married to her husband, Bob Loomis, who is related to most of the people mentioned in this book, for almost fifty years and has five grandchildren whom she hopes will eventually come to know where their ancestors lived and worked through her writing. Contact: Jan Loomis for interviews and more information.
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or 858-674-1218. Thursday, June 20, 2013, at 12:30 p.m.—Members' Luncheon and Installation of Officers at Aldersgate Retreat Center, 925 Haverford Avenue, Pacific Palisades. Continuing and newly paid members for July 2013-June 2014, are invited to the PPHS Luncheon and Installation of Officers featuring a newly expanded menu and program by Professor Dydia DeLyser. How to reserve your place at the table: Send your tax-deductible membership check for 2013-2014 and a separate Luncheon reservation check for $10 made out to PPHS to be received by Saturday, June 15. Reservations will be held at the door. Your check is your reservation.
Seating is limited. Thursday, July 4—Look for us in the Fourth of July Parade in the 1954 Hudson police car. Thursday, August 15—TBA Monday, September 23—TBA |
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