CHERISHING OUR VALLEY 2013
It's interesting to see what sorts of things energize folks, especially where their memories are concerned. Few things seem to annoy people more than the year/s the great San Fernando Valley snow/s occurred. Some photographs in The Museum's archives are marked 1948 and others 1949. There appear to even be conflicting newspaper accounts.
Now to give passionate historians more to get excited about, here are a series of photographs just donated to The Museum of the San Fernando Valley from Arlene Bernholz with yet another date marked on the back of each image "1950".
What do you believe accounts for the differences in these dates? Were there several great snowstorms?
Photo 5823
This house was located at 17251 Sherman Way in Van Nuys.
Photo 5822 - some damage on left front corner
Photo 5822 - some damage on left front corner
Snow covered ornamental shrubs - 1950 - Van Nuys.
Photo 5817
Snow covered outdoor bar-b-q place. Photo 5818
Man in Mexican sombrero shoveling snow in 1950. Photo 5819
2 comments:
It was the three days of 9-12 of January 1949. I remember it very well as my father (who worked swing shift at Lockheed) got us out of bed at 12:30 in the morning to see we already had 6". Eventually it was about a foot of snow. It is documented here: http://framework.latimes.com/2013/01/11/in-1949-the-snowman-socked-los-angeles/#/0
These photos are of a home owned by a celebrity couple at the time and that is them in the photos. I believe the young girl is their daughter but cannot confirm. You'll find the info about them and links to your photos on my blog at https://ralphbyrd.home.blog/
- Ray
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