AMELIA EARHART COLORING BOOK and AFTER THANKSGIVING WALK IT OFF TOUR OF THE NO HO.

DISCOVERING OUR VALLEY    2011

Amelia Earhart by Muriel Earhart Morrisey - A children's coloring book and biography - Gift to The Museum of the San Fernando Valley from Gary Fredburg 2011.

See where the world famous pilot worked in North Hollywood to earn money for her flying lessons and airplane. It's a good time to mark the Saturday after Thanksgiving to go on The Museum's "Great Walk It Off" walking tour of the NoHo.  And, it all starts at the statue of Amelia Earhart in North Hollywood Park.  Call (818) 347- 9665  to make you after Thanksgiving reservations........ 

AMELIA EARHART PLANS FLIGHT AT BURBANK's UNION AIR TERMINAL - 1937

2010  THE YEAR OF VALLEY ADVENTURES
           The handsome statue of Amelia Earhart that stands in North Hollywood Park rightfully points to what is now known as Bob Hope Airport. Almost inevitably when Richard Hilton or Bronwyn Ralph invite their historic walking tour visitors to the statue an aircraft will lift over the Valley and Amelia's tribute. But, the aircraft will also be crossing over the Portal of the Folded Wings, the splendid monument in Valhalla Park to the fallen aviators who set humankind into flight. 

 James Bassett Jr. the writer of this news clipping from the Sunday edition of the Los Angeles Times on March 7, 1937  could not have dreamed that the people he was describing would soon be forever part of San Fernando Valley, and indeed world, history.

   News paper clipping March 1937 - Gift to The Museum of the San Fernando Valley from Gary Fredburg December 2010 - (click on images to enlarge)

How different the fur draped woman in the May Company advertisment from this same March 1937 newspaper depicted the ideal woman of the era.  Amerlia Earhart's life and determination would become a role model for thousands of young women who would come after her.

BRONWYN RALPH LEADS HER FIRST HISTORIC WALKING TOUR FOR THE MUSEUM

2010 THE YEAR OF VALLEY HISTORY

Bronwyn Ralph leads Museum walking tour.

Author, historian Bronwyn Ralph lead her first walking tour for The Museum of the San Fernando Valley today. Bronwyn, an accomplished writer, also leads tours for the historic Doheny Mansion on the downtown campus of Mount Saint Mary's College.
Sidney Lanier Fountain tiles, North Hollywood's Amelia Earhart Library.

Wrought Iron Gate at the entrance to the Amelia Earhart Library in North Hollywood. Photos by Gerald Fecht for the Archives of The Museum of the San Fernando Valley - August 2010.
Flowers at the base of the historic memorial to Amelia Earhart in North Hollywood Park.

Contact your Museum about our historic walking and bus tours of the Valley, or ways you can become involved in preserving and presenting San Fernando Valley history.

Gerald R. Fecht, Ph.D.
The Museum of the San Fernando Valley
21031 Ventura Blvd., Suite 419
Woodland Hills, CA 91364

818.347.9665
http://museumsanfernandovalley.blogspot.com/
www.TheMuseumSFV.org

SAN FERNANDO VALLEY "IN-TOURISTS" SHARE THEIR PHOTOGRAPHS

2009 - The Year of Valley History
Amelia Earhart Statue in North Hollywood Park - Photo by Lind Moore 2009 (click on image to enlarge)

Your Museum wants to share your photographs of the San Fernando Valley. This image by Linda Moore of Amelia Earhart was taken last Saturday during our 3rd walking tour of historic North Hollywood.

AMELIA EARHART

Statue of Amelia Earhart - North Hollywood Park - Photo by Gerald Fecht - Archives of The Museum of the San Fernando Valley - 2008
One great way to begin your exploration of the NoHo Historic District is a visit to the recast sculpture of the great Amelia Earhart by Ernest Shelton. Amelia lived with her husband George Putnam in North Hollywood, during the years of some of her greatest adventures. The leaders of North Hollywood, working with the Community Redevelopment Agency, City Councilman Tom LaBonge and other Valley activists saw to the restoration and recasting of this magnificent sculpture.