Hello to all historic walking tour fans of North Hollywood (NoHo).
Please join us this Sunday, May 26th from 2:00 pm - 3:30pm
Learn about real cowboys, pioneer families, movie television and recording stars, the Spanish conquest, Mexican Ranchos, land purchases and sales of acreage, vast ranches and orchards, fruit, freight trains, wars, architecture, and much more! Tour highlights include:
Amelia Earhart Statue
Academy of Arts & Entertainment
Amelia Earhart Library (1928)
El Portal Theatre (1926)
Tiny's Patio (1923)
St. Paul’s First Lutheran Church
NoHo Arts District
NoHo Fire Station #60
Lankershim Arts Center (1939) (S. Charles Lee, architect)
So. Pacific Railroad Depot (1896)
Weddington Family History
North Hollywood Masonic Temple Lodge 542
Phil’s Diner
Lankershim Elementary School (Marilyn Monroe attended)
RSVP: 1) Purchase tickets in advance on EVENTBRITE (we appreciate this)
2) Walk-up okay, but please contact us at 1-818-347-9665 or email at info@TheMuseumSFV.org to let us know how many will be attending.
Cost: $10 per person
Parking: FREE street parking in area around park, library and church.
Tour meets promptly at 1:55 pm - North Hollywood Regional Library 5211 Tujunga St. North Hollywood, CA 91601
MEET next to Amelia Earhart Statue; NW corner of Tujunga St. & Magnolia Blvd. (on corner of North Hollywood Regional Library)
The tour is about a one mile, flat walk. Please wear comfortable shoes and bring a hat and bottle of water. Please visit us on the web at www.TheMuseumSFV.org
The Museum has some groovy and far out plans for the 50th anniversary of this amazing concert. We are seeking your support in these areas:
Do you have any artifacts or memorabilia from this event? Do you know of anyone that may have some items that can be a part of a program, event or exhibit?
If you attended the event, would you be interested in having The Museum SFV interview you as part of our archives?
Jimi Hendrix was the headline act for the Friday night opening, but he played so poorly - supposedly from an LSD-laced drink - that he returned to the stage on Sunday. His Sunday performance with Buddy Miles, Eric Burdon, and several others lasted more than two hours. The Sunday performance is now legendary and prompted Los Angeles Times critic Pete Johnson to write that the audience “may have heard the best performance of their lives.”
An estimated 200,000 people attended Newport ’69. Despite a poor sound system, a lack of food, water, and restrooms, and brutal security by the Hells’ Angels, it was deemed a resounding success by the attendees and musicians.
The City Fathers of Northridge held a different view and banned any future music festivals. Newport ’69 made headlines around the country for a spell, but two months later, the phenomenon known as Woodstock made Newport seem like a picnic.
Performers included: Albert Collins Albert King Booker T. & the MG's Brenton Wood Buffy St. Marie Byrds Chambers Brothers Charity Creedence Clearwater Revival (Creedance as it appears on poster) Edwin Hawkins Singers Eric Burdon Flock Friends of Distinction Grass Roots Ike & Tina Turner Jethro Tull Jimi Hendrix Experience Joe Cocker Johnny Winter Lee Michaels Love Marvin Gaye Mother Earth Poco Rascals Southwind Spirit Steppenwolf Sweetwater Taj Mahal Three Dog Night
The Museum SFV is pleased to have Historian Shel Weisbach return with another engaging presentation on
Valley Buildings (& more) That Make Us Smile Wonder and Appreciate
Hold on as we take a rollercoaster journey to imaginative and harshly real SFV sites that lead to emotion-and-thought-provoking reactions with emphasis on roadside diners and vendors, public art and architecture, cultural and political correctness, humanity and poverty, coincidences, inconvenient spellings, the space age sci-fi, rails and sails.
Saturday, June 22, 2019
2:00pm - 4:00 pm
Cost: $10/pp
Location: The Museum SFV, Northridge (see directions below)
Walk-in attendees welcome. We would appreciate advance notice for this special event by calling 818-347-9665 or info@TheMuseumSFV.org and let us know you will be attending.
FREE Parking in The Museum SFV parking lot.
Enter on northeast corner of the building.
Elevator access to 2nd floor.
Raffle Prizes too!
Directions to The Museum: 18860 Nordhoff St. Northridge, CA 91324-3885 SE corner of Wilbur Ave. and Nordhoff St. ½ mile west from CSUN and 1/3 mile east from the Northridge Fashion Mall Easy access from 118 Fwy.-Tampa exit; 101 Fwy.-Reseda exit; 405 Fwy.-Nordhoff exit
Funny man Tim Conway was born on December 15th, 1933 in Willoughby, Ohio. He was a fraternity man at Bowling Green State University, served in the army, and started his career working for a radio station.
Conway got into comedy when he started writing and performing comedy skits between morning movies on CBS. Later, Rose Marie "discovered" him and he became a regular performer on The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1956). However, Conway would not earn true fame until starring as "Ensign Charles Parker" on McHale's Navy (1962). Conway sought further success in several shows that were failures, including the embarrassingly short-lived, Turn-On (1969), with only one episode. The producers did not even want it back on after the commercial break! Even his own show, The Tim Conway Show (1970) flopped, with only 12 episodes.
Conway starred in the Disney film, The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975), and also the films, The Prize Fighter (1979) and The Private Eyes (1980).
Conway became a comical performer on The Carol Burnett Show (1967), with characters such as "The Old Man" and "Mr. Tudball". Even though it is widely thought he was always a regular performer throughout the whole show, he only became a regular performer in 1975. He was a hysterical addition to the team and memorably made co-star Harvey Korman laugh on-screen live many times.
Conway had continued comedic roles such as "Dorf", and also in many more television appearances and films.
Tim Conway died on May 14, 2019, in Los Angeles, California. He was 85.
One of America's most prolific actresses was born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff on April 3, 1922, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Alma Sophia (Welz), a housewife, and William Joseph Kappelhoff, a music teacher and choir master. Her grandparents were all German immigrants. She had two brothers, Richard, who died before she was born and Paul, a few years older. Her parents divorced while she was still a child, and she lived with her mother. Like most little girls, Doris liked to dance. At fourteen, she formed a dance act with a boy, Jerry Doherty, and they won $500 in a local talent contest. She and Jerry took a brief trip to Hollywood to test the waters. They felt they could succeed, so she and Jerry returned to Cincinnati with the intention of packing and making a permanent move to Hollywood. Tragically, the night before she was to move to Hollywood, she was injured riding in a car hit by a train, ending the possibility of a dancing career. It was a terrible setback, but after taking singing lessons she found a new vocation, and at age 17, she began touring with the Les Brown Band. She met trombonist Al Jorden, whom she married in 1941. Jorden was prone to violence and they divorced after two years, not long after the birth of their son Terry. In 1946, Doris married George Weidler, but this union lasted less than a year. Day's agent talked her into taking a screen test at Warner Bros. The executives there liked what they saw and signed her to a contract (her early credits are often confused with those of another actress named Doris Day, who appeared mainly in B westerns in the 1930s and 1940s).
Her first starring movie role was in Romance on the High Seas (1948). The next year, she made two more films, My Dream Is Yours (1949) and It's a Great Feeling (1949). Audiences took to her beauty, terrific singing voice and bubbly personality, and she turned in fine performances in the movies she made (in addition to several hit records). She made three films for Warner Bros. in 1950 and five more in 1951. In that year, she met and married Martin Melcher, who adopted her young son Terry, who later grew up to become Terry Melcher, a successful record producer. In 1953, Doris starred in Calamity Jane (1953), which was a major hit, and several more followed: Lucky Me (1954), Love Me or Leave Me (1955), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) and what is probably her best-known film, Pillow Talk (1959). She began to slow down her filmmaking pace in the 1960s, even though she started out the decade with a hit, Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960). In 1958, her brother Paul died. Around this time, her husband, who had also taken charge of her career, had made deals for her to star in films she didn't really care about, which led to a bout with exhaustion. The 1960s weren't to be a repeat of the previous busy decade. She didn't make as many films as she had in that decade, but the ones she did make were successful: Do Not Disturb (1965), The Glass Bottom Boat (1966), Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968) and With Six You Get Eggroll (1968). Martin Melcher died in 1968, and Doris never made another film, but she had been signed by Melcher to do her own TV series, The Doris Day Show (1968). That show, like her movies, was successful, lasting until 1973. After her series went off the air, she made only occasional TV appearances. By the time Martin Melcher died, Doris discovered she was millions of dollars in debt. She learned that Melcher had squandered virtually all of her considerable earnings, but she was eventually awarded $22 million by the courts in a case against a man that Melcher had unwisely let invest her money. She married for the fourth time in 1976 and since her divorce in 1980 has devoted her life to animals. Doris was a passionate animal rights activist. She ran Doris Day Animal League in Carmel, California, which advocates homes and proper care of household pets. Doris Day died on May 13, 2019, in Carmel Valley Village, California. She was 97. Source: IMDb
