VENTURA BOULEVARD MAGAZINE ARTICLE ON W.C. FIELD'S ENCINO HOME

CHERISHING OUR VALLEY         2013

A great article on the Encino home once leased by the great American cinema comic W.C. Fields is now featured in the Summer edition of Ventura Boulevard Magazine. Rachel Heller's article is a real gem. 

 W.C. Fields in his Encino study 1934

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SAN FERNANDO HIGH SCHOOL's MAY QUEEN 1934

CHERISHING OUR VALLEY     2012

Joyce Berry - May Queen - San Fernando High School - 1934

In 1934, the students of San Fernando High School selected Joyce Berry as their first "indoor" May Festival's May Queen. (Click on image to enlarge)

TOLL JR. HIGH GLENDALE 1934

CHERISHING OUR VALLEY   2012

In June of 1934, 246 eager youngsters graduated from  Eleanor J. Toll Junior High School in Glendale, California. To a processional march from Wagner's Tannhauser, students entered the Athletic Field of Herbert Hoover High School. Most listened politely to an address entitled "Training For The Big Job" by Mr. Reynold E. Blight of Los Angles. 

1934 Toll Jr. High School Commencement Program - Gift to The Museum of the San Fernando Valley 2012 from Gary Fredburg.  (click on image to enlarge it_

78 years have passed and only a few of those who graduated on that afternoon still remain with us, but their names are permanently part of San Fernando Valley history.

VALLEY GLEN'S FAMOUS JANE WITHERS

DISCOVERING OUR VALLEY   2011

Detail from a program of the Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters. Gift to The Museum of the San Fernando Valley from Barbara Silva 2011.  (click on image to enlarge)

Cast in the film "Bright Eyes" in 1934, the great Jane Withers has been a major American performer in over 50 films. For a generation of television viewers she became Comet cleanser's famous Josephine the Plumber.

LOOKINF DOE KEFFER'S HISTORY OF THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY

DISCOVERING OUR VALLEY   2011

The Museum Community is seeking the donation of:
The History of the San Fernando Valley edited by Frank McCleunan Keffer with Harold L Meier,
and Arthur H. Cawston.  The book was published in 1934 by Stillman Printing Co. in Glendale.