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🔸 "Before the Game: the Eternal Practice" by Olivia Gude
🔸 "Honor For Us All" by Michael Schnorr, Todd Stands, and Susan Yamagata
[Reposting this as the mural images didn’t appear in the original post for some reason.]
When the #WorldCup came to Los Angeles in 1994, five #LAmurals were painted along the LAX -> Pasadena route:
🔸 "Stamps of Victory" by Johanna Poethig
🔸 "Ricochet" by Roberto Salas
🔸 "Solo Unido Un Mundo Vencera" by Willie Herrón
Jun 9, 1870: Pico House opened for business #OTD.
“For a time no other hotel in California matched it in elegance & quality," Carlos Manuel Salomon (Pio Pico's biography: books.google.com/books?id=iJU...).
@nhm.org photo (1875): collections.nhm.org/seaver-cente...
"Historian Lillian Faderman shares what she's learned about the early days of the LGBTQ+ community in Southern California." @abc7.bsky.social: abc7.com/post/author-... #LGTBQhistory #PrideMonth
Remembering the birthday of #FrankLloydWright with a look at the Ennis House, designed for Charles and Mabel Ennis. #LosFeliz #BOTD
Photos via @usclibraries.bsky.social (1923):
"Following its victory downtown, Local 399’s Justice for Janitors campaign began an organizing drive in Century City targeting the Danish-owned cleaning company ISS..."
@uclairle.bsky.social timeline for the #JusticeforJanitors campaign: memorywork.irle.ucla.edu/justice-for-... #ArchivesforJustice
As @hawthorne.bsky.social explained in this Artbound documentary (2018), the Ennis House “is not just the biggest but the most imposing of Wright’s Los Angeles designs.”
Frank Lloyd Wright in Los Angeles -> youtu.be/3juSckHif90?... #FrankLloydWright
A few #grunion photos on this #WorldOceansDay, via USC Libraries' Wrigley Marine Science Center collection.
The Cabrillo Marine Aquarium has been hosting grunion runs for the last 75 years. The aquarium’s upcoming grunion runs are scheduled for June 16 & June 30: wl.donorperfect.net/weblink/WebL...
Happy International Archives Day! This year's theme is #ArchivesForJustice: Rights, Memory & Futures.
A few photos from the Justice for Janitors campaign in 1989, courtesy of the @lapubliclibrary.bsky.social: tessa2.lapl.org/digital/coll... #JusticeforJanitors #InternationalArchivesDay
For the #WorldCup in 1994, five Los Angeles #murals were painted along the LAX->Pasadena route:
▪️Before the Game: the Eternal Practice by Olivia Gude
▪️Solo Unido, Un Mundo Vencera by Willie Herrón
▪️Stamps of Victory by Johanna Poethig
▪️Ricochet by Roberto Salas
▪️Honor For Us All by Michael Schnorr
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Historian Lillian Faderman shares what she's learned about the early days of the LGBTQ+ community in Southern California.
