LAPEL PINS REFLECT VALLEY VIEWPOINTS

CHERISHING OUR VALLEY         2013

Small things, like the political and patriotic lapel buttons below, are collected by your Museum - not for the sake of hobby-like collecting but as tangible evidence for events in San Fernando Valley history. If you are like most folks, there is a little box in your family room or a drawer in a dressing room that has things like a real silver dime, a high school swimming medal or a souvenir pin from the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. The Museum's Acquisitions Committee recommends that you follow Henry David Thoreau  advice to "simplify, simplify, simplify." Put the coin in a safe place along with a note that its silver, and send the other (seemingly) unrelated objects to The Museum. 

Just for fun, I just explored such a drawer in my own home. So, The Museum will be getting an empty Rive Gauche Cafe match box before the (818) telephone prefix, a copy of Webb's Monitor - Morris's Edition signed R. A. Shreves Feb'y 8th, '09 <1909> The Miniature Monitor of Blue Lodge Masonry, a Green Party political button (that I once wore on St. Patrick's Day) and an AIDS Lifecycle souvenir bottle opener. 
I threw away the wrapped cough drop of unknown age.

The role of Freemasonry in San Fernando Valley history was particularly important at the end of the 19th and onset of the 20th century. The little guide book reveals the values that Masons in the Valley sought to meet, one hundred years ago.  The Rive Gauche Cafe match box relates to an era in which patrons smoked in public dining rooms. The AIDS Lifecycle opener and the Green Party button are evidence of Valley politics and medical issues.

How about writing "MUSEUM" on a large manilla envelope and begin dropping evidence of our history and lifestyles therein. The Museum's address is listed below.

Historic buttons - Gift to The Museum of the San Fernando Valley from Gary Fredburg 2013.

Donate tax-deductible political memorabilia to your Museum today.

The Museum of the San Fernando Valley

Acquisitions Committee
21031 Ventura Blvd., Suite 419
Woodland Hills, CA 91364-2230

THE MUSEUM’S TELEPHONE
1 (818) 347-9665

THE MUSEUM'S EMAILS
gerald.fecht@TheMuseumSFV.org
info@TheMuseumSFV.org

THE MUSEUM’S BLOG

www.museumsanfernandovalley.blogspot.com

THE MUSEUM’S WEBSITE

www.TheMuseumSFV.org

THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY CELEBRATES THE INAUGURATION OF BARAK OBAMA AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

Mosaic of President Abraham Lincoln's oath of office - Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills. Photo by Gerald Fecht for the Archives of The Museum of the San Fernando Valley (click on image to enlarge)

In nine days, Barack Hussein Obama will become the President of the United States of America. He will be administered the oath of office by the Chief Justice of the United States, John G. Roberts Jr. The President-elect has chosen to swear his loyalty to the Constitution of our Republic on the Bible used by President Abraham Lincoln for his inauguration in 1861. The Lincoln Bible is kept in the Library of Congress. It is bound in burgundy velvet with a gold-washed metal rim. Its edges are heavily gilded. The Bible was published by Oxford University Press.

ROBERT F. KENNEDY'S PROPHECY FROM MAY 1961 COMES THROUGH WITH OBAMA'S ELECTION

There are many downright mysterious aspects to this story - a prediction by Robert F. Kennedy about the election of a Negro President of the United States, the foresight of an Iowa farm woman to send the information to her Grandson in California, and wisdom of a Grandson to keep his Grandmother's legacy alive.
1961 Newspaper Prediction by RFK on an African-American President - Collection of Burnet Brown 2008 - Archives of The Museum of the San Fernando Valley (click on image to enlarge)
Article likely to have appeared in the Des Moines Register.

Comments by San Fernando Valley sustainability policy analyst Burnet Brown of Woodland Hills 2008 (click on image to enlarge)

Myrtle Bennett Coates - Grandmother of Burnet Brown - Collection of Burnet Brown 2009 (click on image to enlarge)


The San Fernando Valley, in the heart of the Creative Capital of the World, deserves a great Museum of history and culture.