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Fall-Winter 2019 VOLUME 38, NO 2 FALL• WINTER 2019 LA JOLLA HISTORICAL SOCIETY MISSION The La Jolla Historical Society inspires and empowers the community to make La Jolla’s diverse past a relevant part of contemporary life. VISION The La Jolla Historical Society looks toward the future while celebrating the past. We preserve and share La Jolla’s distinctive sense of place and encourage quality e start the fall to Library Arts & Culture Exhibitions Manager EDITOR for the world.” “La Jolla was simply a place of all the best in the urban built environment. The Society serves as a thriving community resource and gathering place where season with a new Bonnie Domingos. Britton lobbied for residents and visitors explore history, art, ideas and culture. W E stuff: Design, cultural integrity, a beautiful exhibition, Julius We have a couple of events on the fall calendar “the creation of livable BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2018-2019 Shulman: Modern La I’d like to draw your attention to. The first, on urban environment in coastline, wealthy inhabitants and a newly Weston Anson, President Jolla and a celebratory October 5th, is the 2019 iteration of our popular our times” with La Jolla arrived cornucopia of intellectuals to assure Suzanne Sette, Vice President opening reception on Feasting on History dinner. Guests start their leading the way in Matthew Mangano, PE, Secretary the mix didn’t become too rich and, heaven Nick Agelidis Ph.D., Treasurer September 27th. A evening at Wisteria Cottage with a champagne “giving growth a human Judith Haxo, Immediate Past President famed architectural reception, then proceed to a private home with scale.” He saw the new TOR’S MESSAGE TOR’S forbid, tasteless. Elizabeth Thiele Barkett photographer, Shulman dinner and dessert hosted by the homeowners. The UCSD campus and the FROM TH FROM Ann Craig (1910–2009) has been second event is the equally popular Ellen Browning Salk Institute as important Heather Crane, AIA widely recognized for Scripps Luncheon, this year at the La Jolla Country R components contributing to the style of the Now, almost 55 years later we might” ask Tony Crisafi, AIA DIREC Meg Davis his work in Los Angeles Club on November 2nd, and featuring guest speaker new village, a place where large buildings of ‘what happened?’ to the place Britton and Debra Duford Heath Fox and Palm Springs, but it and curator Keith York. Look for registrations notices the cement and steel mode such as The Waggaman envisioned. Most of the trees are David Goldberg is not widely known that between 1934 and 2007, for both of these soon, and please plan to join us for Seville at the top of Girard Avenue and gone, dead or removed or both. A lot of the Lucy Jackson Jeffrey W. Kirsch, Ph.D. Shulman shot over 200 projects in San Diego. His these engaging events! LETTE Russell Forester’s toney Jefferson Gallery on Mid-century buildings are still around, put Molly McClain, Ph.D. clients were architects, designers, newspapers, book and Our Spring Appeal 2019 fundraising campaign Carol Olten (in mirror background) photographing her third Ivanhoe along with Mid-century commercial to a motley number of different uses, Donna Medrea Samoyed dog, Nanook, Park Row Dreamery House, August, magazine publishers, construction companies, and was very successful this year, and we are extremely 2019 structures by Robert Mosher such as the however, and many looking a little sad for Anna Palmer Melanie Showalter developers. Shulman’s work documented the region’s grateful to all the donors who participated. La Jolla Federal at the corner of Wall and wear. The fashionable people who seemed so Melissa Snook EXECUTIVE evolving 20th century architectural landscape. He Fundraising campaigns like the Spring Appeal Herschel would anchor among cottages at the cutting edge of things – the professors, Margie Warner played an instrumental role in sharing California’s support the programs and activities you read about ames Britton, the eminent architecture from the past and open spaces with plenty of the scientists, the architects, the artists – have Richard Wiildman unique post-War, Mid-century modernism with an in Timekeeper. If you’re still considering making a J critic and cultural scholar during La Jolla’s trees – big ones! “Trees are the greatest of entered for the most part into either history STAFF international audience. contribution, it’s quick and easy on our website at Mid-century years, wrote and designed a or oblivion. Heath Fox, Executive Director The Board of Directors and I offer curator Keith lajollahistory.org/support/donating, or you can call sophisticated publication in 1965 with La Jolla hardly arrived at the visionary [email protected] York our enthusiastic congratulations and sincere me directly at 858-459-5335 ext. 2. photography by John Waggaman called The heights that modernism and the Mid-century Bill Carey, Business Assistant gratitude for his in-depth knowledge, professionalism, We are very excited to welcome Melissa Snook Art of Living in La Jolla. It fairly vibrated years promised. The streets are dirty. The alleys [email protected] and dedicated hard work in organizing this exhibition. to the Society’s Board of Directors, and to express with the new found energy of a seaside are worse. Open space is disappearing. Britton’s Dana Hicks, Deputy Director/Collections Manager [email protected] We are deeply thankful and indebted to the financial our gratitude for the many contributions from all community brimming with modern aesthetic “human scale” has become human density supporters of this project: Barbara Freeman, IS our Board members. I also want to offer my sincerest whether it involved the arts, architecture or as more and more luxury condominiums Carol Olten, Historian/Docent Coordinator [email protected] Architecture, Modern San Diego, Nick and Lamya appreciation to the Wisteria Cottage gallery docents shopping. La Jolla was simply a place of all are jammed to the max on village lots in Agelidis, James and Barbara Alcorn, Joan and Gary who present our programs to the public, and to the the best stuff: Design, cultural integrity, a neighborhoods where single family housing MAGAZINE Gand, Elizabeth Courtiér | Willis Allen Real Estate, and Society’s Members —we look forward to seeing beautiful coastline, wealthy inhabitants and once prevailed. Editor Contributors ArtWorks San Diego. We are also thrilled to partner you soon at our exhibitions, events, programs, and a newly arrived cornucopia of intellectuals In this Timekeeper issue we are taking a Carol Olten Darren Bradley with the San Diego Public Library|Downtown Gallery, activities! to assure the mix didn’t become too rich and, look at Mid-century La Jolla through the Bill Carey Design & Layout and their presentation of Julius Shulman: Modern heaven forbid, tasteless. lens of four photographers who recorded Julia de Beauclair Dave Hampton Dana Hicks San Diego, opening September 28th, as the counterpart Heath Fox Oozing with even more promise for what these times of visionary design with their Columnists Molly McClain to our own exhibition, and offer our congratulations Executive Director he called “a prime cut of the California cameras in ways that were both artistic and Heath Fox Keith York Carol Olten coast, a filet mignon among the choice stakes scholarly: Julius Shulman (the architectural photographer whose work is featured in a Printer of American earth,” Britton predicted La Neyenesch Printers NEW BOARD MEMBER Jolla at the brink of being a cutting-edge new exhibition in the Wisteria Cottage elissa Snook is a local wealth advisor for Merrill Lynch. She has over eight years of model in urban design, a place where buildings galleries), Lynn Fayman (whose work at M and streets blended into a symphony of mood MCASD and film studio in Bird Rock is GENERAL INFORMATION experience in the financial services industry and works closely with affluent families The Laurence McGilvery family in front of The Nexus Mailing Address: Contact Information: in developing and implementing integrated wealth strategies. She is a La Jolla native and movement as the surf splashed against bookstore (now Wisteria Cottage Galleries) photographed chronicled in a Dave Hampton article), PO Box 2085 858•459•5335 the cliffs and blue sky met blue sea, no trash, by John Waggaman for James Britton’s The Art of Living in Waggaman (featured in Britton’s publication La Jolla, CA 92038 [email protected] and attended Muirlands Middle School and La Jolla High School. Upon graduation, La Jolla, 1965; building shown at the top of the page in the (email) Melissa attended the University of California San Diego and graduated with a degree no pollution. photograph was the temporary UCSD library designed by the written about here) and Robert Glasheen Locations Deems-Lewis-Martin architectural firm. Office and Research Monday - Friday in economics. Melissa has a deep commitment to everything that is La Jolla. Her Introducing La Jolla, Britton wrote: (the subject of Coda and a layout, pages 26 7846 Eads Avenue 10 a.m. - 4.p.m. passion is giving back to the community she loves with a focus on advancing the financial “Now a swiftway (Ardath Road/La Jolla & 27). La Jolla, CA 92037 Parkway) is sweeping through the mountain. Although they may be remindful of a lost intelligence of women. Melissa currently lives in the village and during her free time architecture,” Britton wrote. In 1965 Wisteria Cottage Wednesday - Sunday enjoys surfing and snowboarding as well as volunteering for her community. Population is rising. Land values are rising. Waggaman’s photographs show La Jolla a La Jolla dream, they also may be inspirational 780 Prospect Street Noon - 4 p.m. Skyscrapers (939 Coast) are rising. Tempers veritable forest – home to giant old today as we pick up the pieces and move on.
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