ROADSIDE BBQ STUDIO CITY 1921

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Mrs. Dorcas Margaret Hallock and her 3 year olf little boy Clifford in front of the family's bar-b-que stand in 1921. Maggie Hallock served ice cream, Nehi soda pop, and three kinds of bar-b-que sandwiches; lamb, pork or beef. She also served George Washington instant coffee.

Side of the Hallock Bar-B-Que stand on a dirt Ventura Boulevard in Studio City - 1921.  (click on these images to enlarge them) Note the car parked to the right on what was then Ventura Highway. The stand, which was built out of the residential home Mr. Fred Swan (Margaret Hallock's brother) , was located about a block of modern Colfax Avenue. The fellow bedecked in a suit was "Uncle Fred" who had an auto repair show downtown on Jefferson Boulevard. 

Around 1929 or 1930, Fred Swan built a home on Picturesque Drive in Studio City. The house still stands in 2013. Life was a rural adventure in the San Fernando Valley for boys like this. (Clifford Hallock) is the taller of the two boys about 8 years old.

Look at the above photo enlarge, and a swan's head emerges by the smaller boy's hand. Swan's nest may have been a land development's name.

As these little guys grew older, they played by the Los Angeles River, generally a sandy bottomed stream. But the river was large enough that the boys had to hike to a bridge at Laurel Canyon on

their way to North Hollywood Junior High School. The river was the home to watercress and crawfish, once harvested by Native Tongva in the area. By Laurel Canyon bridge, there was a great swimming hole where on hot days school boys would "skinny dip."

NORTH HOLLYWOOD SKYLINE PICTORIAL 1955

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We've just received a treasure trove of San Fernando Valley memorabilia from Arlene Bernholz. A long time Valley resident Arlene attended both North Hollywood Junior and Senior High Schools. Here's a photograph from the Spring 1955 Skyline Pictorial of North Hollywood Junior High School.

HISTORIC WALKING TOUR NOV 25th

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Don't forget The Museum's famous "Walk It Off" (after Thanskgiving - Walking Tour of Historic North Hollywood - SATURDAY Nov 25th.  Begins 10am at Amerlia Earhart statue in North Hollywood Park (Magnolia and Tujunga) at 10am.  $10 donation to The Museum.  Bring your Camera!

13th Graduation Program North Hollywood Junior High School - January 30th 1947 - historic program given to The Museum of the San Fernando Valley from Gary Fredburg 2011.  (click on image to enlarge)

BRIAN CUTLER'S LIFELONG CAREER IN ACTING BEGAN IN NORTH HOLLYWOOD

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Brian Cutler - 1962 Carousel program detail - Gift to The Museum of the San Fernando Valley from Gary Fredburg - Feb. 2010.
Brian Cutler was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. Like many successful performers, he began his acting career very early. At the age of five he played a grasshopper in a production called Once Upon A Clothesline.
By the time he was a student in North Hollywood Junior High School, he had already appeared in many plays and was already working in commercials and on television.
In May of 1962, Brian was cast as “Billy Bigelow” in the North Hollywood High School production of Carousel. A program from the performance was donated to The Museum by Gary Fredburg in February 2010. Since there was no date on the play program, an internet search was conducted and Mr. Cutler was located in Kansas City, Missouri.
While attending North Hollywood High, Brian Cutler performed in Brigadoon, the Mikado and Down in the Valley. He appeared also in The King and I, Music Man and other well received plays. During his time at North Hollywood High School, worked in his first motion picture, Bye Bye Birdie. Brian attended California State University Northridge where he earned his degree in Speech.
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The following is shared from Brian Cutler’s Commercial Actors Studio website:
website: http://www.actorsstudio.com/
“Brian has always worked as an actor and singer exclusively. His extensive career includes a starring role in the hit television series The Shazam Isis Hour, co-starring roles in the T.V. series Emergency, The Long Hot Summer and The Young Lawyers, in the motion pictures Airport '79, The Concorde and Wilderness Family, Part II, and guest starring roles on T.V. series such as Rockford Files, Charlie's Angels, Knight Rider, Fall Guy and Quincy.”

In 1972 Brian starred in Come Blow Your Horn at Tiffany's Attic Dinner Playhouse in Kansas City. Then in 1983, Brian came back to Kansas City to star in The Unsinkable Molly Brown, when he decided to make Kansas City his home. Brian worked in local theatres, did voice-over work, industrial training films and commercials. After traveling to the west coast to work and teach, Brian decided to open a film technique and commercial acting studio in the Kansas City area. In 1994 Brian established the Commercial Actors Studio and began teaching an acting technique that was developed by Charles E. Conrad whom Brian studied with in Los Angeles for almost 10 years. ... Brian now continues his teaching, resulting in the Commercial Actors Studio being one of the premier acting studios in the United States.

WALTER REED MIDDLE SCHOOL - NORTH HOLLYWOOD JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL 1953

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"The Skyline" news supplement was the publication of North Hollywood Junior High School (now Walter Reed Middle School) in May of 1953. The following are images from that newspaper, from the collection of Ray Marin 2008.
The Museum of the San Fernando Valley collects the histories of the junior high schools and middle schools. We encourage your gifts of photographs, films, records and cds of your family's middle school experiences.

RAY MARIN'S TREASURES CONTINUED

Scanning and storing the many North Hollywood High School, and Junior High School, treasures of Ray Marin is lots of fun (and work). It will likely take years before the people in these group pictures are identified. And, as with most historical artifacts, there are often more questions raised than answered.
"Pert Jills Club - 1956 or 1957" Collection of Ray Martin 2008 (click on image to enlarge)

Wallet Photograph marked in ink Carlau or Corlou
Photo by Willima De Pauk Jr. 5054 Lankershim Boulevard - Collection of Ray Marin


Hi-Y Membership Card "The Jesters" January 1, 1957

North Hollywood High School Basketball Schedule for 1956 - 1957
Please share information about these objects and other artifacts with your Museum

WALTER REED MIDDLE SCHOOL WAS ONCE NORTH HOLLYWOOD JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

North Hollywood Junior High School 1939 - Photo in the collection of Ray Marin 2008
First Graduates of North Hollywood Junior High School (click on image to enlarge) - Photo in the collection of Ray Marin 2008
First faculty of North Hollywood Junior High School
- Photo in the collection of Ray Marin 2008
l to r: Boy's Vice Principal L.E. Hoffman, Girl's Vice Principal M. Hooval, and Principal R. Compton

When the builders of the North Hollywood Junior High School completed their new school in 1939, they could have little expected that their state-of-the-art school complex would be massively overcrowded in just five years. By 1945, eleven temporary bungalows were parked on the school's grounds that had been walnut grove less than a decade before.

Join Ray Marin in preserving images of North Hollywood (North Hollywood High School and North Hollywood Junior High School). History's stories are put together item by item, photograph by photograph.

The San Fernando Valley deserves a great Museum of history and culture.