COMMERCIAL SHOW OF PAPER COLLECTIBLES

LOS ANGELES CITY HALL 1945 - gift of Hon. Dallas Holmes - Collection of The Museum of the San Fernando Valley - Southern Pacific RR promotional images.

SAN GABRIEL VALLEY VINTAGE PAPER COLLECTIBLES SHOW

Approximately 35 dealers from throughout California and Arizona will be displaying over 6 million old postcards, paper collectibles and ephemera. Included will be postcards, advertising trade cards, cigar labels, valentines, scrap, travel brochures, photographs, stereographs, aviation, auto, railroad, ship, movie memorabilia, Western Americana, and MUCH MORE.
Located at the Arcadia Masonic Temple at 50 W. Duarte Arcadia Ca. Right next to the Arcadia public library on the corner of Duarte and Santa Anita. Free appraisals of all old paper collectibles will be given with the price of admission, so if any of your readers want to know what that old scrap book, album or box of postcards is worth, now is the time and place to find out!

WHERE: Arcadia Masonic Temple
50 W. Duarte Arcadia Ca

WHEN: Saturday, Nov 10 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Sunday, Nov 11 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

ADMISSION: $5.00 Good for both days.

For further information call Jeremy LeRoque at (626) 665-9435

HISTORIC SAN FERNANDO VALLEY RAILROAD PHOTOS SHARED WITH MUSEUM

INBOUND RED CAR IN THE CAHUENGA PASS c. 1952
HISTORIC REDCAR ON CANOGA PARK ROUTE 1952
Collection of Jim Walker

Very special thanks to railroad historian Jim Walker for sharing these priceless images of the Redcard trolley that once served the San Fernando Valley. As we process the photographs for your Museum's electronic archive, they will be regularly posted on this blog.

NOVEMBER 2 ALL SOULS DAY IN LA

DEATH ON PARADE - photo by Janne Fecht
CLARK MAUSELEOM - photo by Janne Fecht

HAPPY DIA DE LOS MUERTOS from THE MUSEUM OF THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY

SHEL'S CITY-SIGHTINGS - BUSTER KEATON CLASSIC

CITY-SIGHTING EVENT - from Shel Weisbach
Attention Classic Film Fans!
BUSTER KEATON'S 1927 MASTERPIECE “THE GENERAL” (WITH LIVE ACCOMPANIMENT)
COMING TO “FRIDAY NIGHT FLICKERS”
The Santa Clarita Valley Historical Society is proud to announce the presentation of Buster Keaton’s hilarious silent masterpiece “The General” on Friday, December 7, 2007 at 7:30 PM. The film will be shown in the historic Saugus Train Station in Heritage Junction, Newhall, and will feature live accompaniment by 95-year-old Bob Mitchell, the last of the silent era pianists. Admission is $5.
“The General” was recently voted #16 on AFI’s 10th anniversary list of the 100 Best American Films. It follows the story of Johnnie Gray (Keaton), a Southern engineer during the Civil War, who must retrieve his train (The General), and his girl (Marion Mack), from invading Union troops. Keaton’s hilarious visual and physical comedy, coupled with tremendous action and special effects – including the dropping of an actual train into a river – make this one of the true landmarks of silent comedy.
The film will be accompanied on piano by Bob Mitchell who has been playing for live screenings of “The General” since it debuted in 1927.
The Saugus Train Station is located at Heritage Junction (inside William S. Hart Park), located at 24107 San Fernando Road, Newhall. Doors open at 7:00 PM and seating is limited, so be sure to come early to see one of the funniest films ever made!
For further information please contact Pat Saletore at (661) 254-2517, or at www.scvhs.org.

SHEL'S CITY SIGHTINGS - JULIUS SHULMAN PRINTS

Restored Ceiling of the Central Library 2007 - photo by Jerry Fecht for The Museum of the San Fernando Valley
CITY SIGHTING - from Shel Weisbach -
"I went Orange- and Red-Lining to the Central Library today. After burying myself in the History Library, on floor minus 4, I resurrected myself and rose to floor plus 2 to check a Getty Museum exhibit of 150
Julius Shulman prints. (The Getty owns Shulman's archives.) AWESOME.

BEAUTIFUL. FASCINATING . . . If you have the opportunity to go downtown by January 20 please do yourself a favor and see his Los Angeles architectural journey. Give yourself extra time to study individual photos that may absorb your interest.
Also, if you have not done so previously, spend a few (or more) delightful moments walking amid the sculptures and fountains of the West Lawn.

Added suggestions . . . cross 5th Street and ascend/descend the Spanish Steps and check the lobby of the adjacent highrise . . . still have time? Hike down to 7th, east of Fig and checkout the MARVELOUS tile lobby of the Fine Arts Building opposite the old Barker Bros. (furniture) Store." Shel