West Adams Heritage Association's Annual Living History Tour
At the Angelus Rosedale Cemetery, History Comes to Life on Saturday, September 28, as a Mack Sennett Bathing Beauty, USC's first female professor, a heroic -- or notorious -- Soldier of Fortune, and a jazz chanteuse who sang with Duke Ellington all perform…
Photos by Dawn Kirkpatrick
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Photos by Dawn Kirkpatrick
Photos by Dawn Kirkpatrick
L-R Rufina, Paula, Bena, Maria, Maggie and Angie
Maria Barojas (R) and her daughter Angie Soloranzo
"So many people are unaware this neighborhood exists,” said Country Club Park resident Katherine Miller in a Los Angeles Times’ article about the neighborhood in 1985. A little over a quarter of a century later, this still seems to be true. Country Club Park began as the Los Angeles Golf…
West Adams was home to some of the earliest gay rights activists in the country. The Michael J. Connell Carriage Houseon 23rd near Hoover has been a part of the fabric of West Adams from the very beginning days of the gay right’s movement dating back to the late 1940’s.…
My dad, Harry Theobald and I moved to 2143 w. 21st Street (in Western Heights) in 1924 from Saint Louis when I was probably about four.My mother died in childbirth with me. We stayed until about 1936. It was a fun neighborhood with all kinds of stuff going…
A Former Resident Remembers His Sugar Hill Childhood
(What Kids Did Before TV, Texting, Ipods, Video Games)
I lived in a neoclassical mansion at 2218 Harvard Boulevard from the age of six months to about…
During the 1920s and 1930s, due to the high concentration of religious structures lining both sides of Adams between Vermont and Crenshaw Boulevards, Adams Boulevard became known as the “street of churches”. One of the most impressive is the McCarty Memorial Christian Church. On a hill with a great tower…Currently are 68 guests and no members online