History
epub |eng | 2011-10-11 | Author:Jim Hier

Norbert Weiland anticipated family members would visit Southern California from his native Chicago. To ensure they had a place to stay, he built what he called the Balboa Court Apartments ...
( Category: History March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-26 | Author:Thomas C. Alex [Alex, Thomas C.]

Life could be good, happy, and fulfilling in the Terlingua area, but it could also be hard and cruel. The small child in the center of this photograph is one ...
( Category: History March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-11 | Author:Stephen J. Faessel

Theatric producers Sammy Lewis and Danny Dare opened Melodyland Theater on July 3, 1963, with Betty Hutton and Harve Presnell appearing in Annie Get Your Gun. This unique 3,270-seat theater-in-the-round ...
( Category: Cities March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Yates McKee

Occupy Wall Street, Spring Training exercises, March 8, 2012. Banner by Debra Thimesch. These objects demonstrated a wide spectrum of tones and valences. One end of this spectrum emphasized the ...
( Category: History March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-05 | Author:Alexandra Harris [Harris, Alexandra]

Nineteen-thirties culture pastorally reconvened the lost personalities of the village. In Bernard Leach we find the artist as potter, in Hennell the artist as carpenter. In T. S. Eliot we ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-13 | Author:Rick Malaspina [Malaspina, Rick]

HEART OF TEMESCAL, 1947. Telegraph Avenue at Forty-eighth Street was the center of Oakland’s Italian American neighborhood. Residents represented different parts of Italy but predominantly the regions of Piedmont and ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-22 | Author:Costa Mesa Historical Society

George Waterman moved to the Newport Heights area in 1909 and, in the spring of 1910, founded a nursery for apple trees. He and another farmer each planted 5 acres ...
( Category: Cities March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-31 | Author:Stephen J. Faessel

This late-19th-century scene of Center Street, looking east, shows Fred Pressel’s Blacksmith Shop at 218 West Center on the right and the tracks of the Anaheim Street Car Company running ...
( Category: History March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ian Baxter

Construction style of one of the huts at ‘Wehrwolf’ in the summer of 1942. (Roger Bender/National Archives) Entrance to one of the underground bunkers at ‘Wehrwolf’ in the summer of ...
( Category: History March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2004-08-06 | Author:Donald R. Williams [Williams, Donald R.]

Settlements along the Adirondack Trail evolved from the original scattered log cabins to well-built cottages and homes. Many provided a good view of the lake or were on lakefront property. ...
( Category: History March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-12 | Author:Carson Hendricks

While the stock show is considered very serious to all the entrants, that does not mean they cannot have a bit of fun. In 1960, two visitors to the fair ...
( Category: Celebrations & Events March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-17 | Author:Jefferson County Black History Preservation Society Inc.

( Category: African-American Studies March 2,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-06-25 | Author:R A Burt

KONGO CLASS Displacement: 26,330 tons normal load (average for class) Dimensions: Length: 704ft oa; Beam: 92ft; Draught: 27ft 6in mean Armament: 8 x 14in 45cal; 16 x 6in; 16 x ...
( Category: History March 2,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-01 | Author:Andy Peter Antippas

“The Cabildo, c. 1900.” Library of Congress. The building was named Casa Capitular, “Capitol House.” The Cabildo was the deliberative body that administered to the municipal affairs during the Spanish ...
( Category: History March 2,2020 )
azw |eng | 2012-05-08 | Author:Gwendolyn Wright [Wright, Gwendolyn]

The living room in a bungalow in Tacoma, Washington, ca. 1910, shows a “progressive” interior: easy to clean, simple, and fashionable. The furniture combined straight-backed Mission oak and curved wicker ...
( Category: Social Sciences March 1,2020 )