c: ~ • c: ~ 0 .. I Meet HSSC President Meet Board Member • Larry E. Burgess Marilyn F. Solomon THE NEWLY ELECTED PRESIDENT of the AS A CHILD MARILYN SOLOMON may not Historical Society of Southern , says have realized the lively topical conversations ~ ' he would like to "carry out [Executive Direc­ around the dinner table were preparing her for tor] Tom Andrews' dream--expanding the the future. Both parents were activists: Her C') permanent endowment." Larry Burgess would father was a member of the international staff l, J o6 N also like to see our website add excerpts of of the United Auto Workers and a friend of Q; articles from the Quarterly. Walter Reuther; her mother was a civil rights _Q E Larry's parents settled in Redlands in 1949 campaigner. :::J z when Larry was 9 and he has been there ever In 1968 Marilyn joined KCOP Television. lJ) since, although he left long enough to earn a Once there, Marilyn changed the format of an Q) E master's and doctorate from the Claremont interview program she hosted by inviting c: :::J Graduate University in 1969 and 1972. Larry minority groups to co-host the shows. Her goal 0 > has always identified with local and regional was to present cross-cultural issues. C') ~ 0 history. He knew early on that he would make a career in the field, "Nothing deterred me Awards and Community Involvement Marilyn eventually became director of corpo­ from that," he says. cu;>::: Q) rate relations and executive producer of E E The Impact of a Visit to Smiley Library information programming at KCOP. During her :::J (f) One fateful day Larry went to the A. K. Smiley 25 years there she has won five Emmy awards s Public Library to check out a book and learned for documentaries, news analysis, and there was a part-time opening. He applied, was children's programs. She also received the du ' hired and within a year was appointed archi­ Pont award. She sits on the Board of Gover­ - vist. There as head of special collections, he nors of both the L.A. County Natural History ::::JI supervised the California and local history Museum and the City Club on Bunker Hill. collections and the extensive Civil War collec­ With her husband, Allen, she operates a tions of the Lincoln Memorial Shrine. In 1986, consultant company, the Solomon Group. he was appointed library director. Right now, Marilyn is involved in two major O l0 (f) Today, in addition to his work at the Smiley endeavors: She is leading the selection of an 0 >- Library, Larry teaches and writes. And he is executive director for the Julian Dixon Q) "(3 prolific: A compilation of his writing runs five Institute for Cultural Studies at the Natural 0 (f) pages long. In 1995 The Hunt for Willie Boy, History Museum. And she is researching the (ij which he co-authored with James Sandos, was life of Biddy Mason, LA's first successful named the outstanding book on human rights black businesswoman, who will be honored by QJ ! in North America by the Gustavus Myers a room named for her at the City Club. Q) £ Center for the Study of Human Rights. Marilyn says she is delighted to be part of an >- _Q Larry lives in an 1890 Redlands grove house organization committed to exploring the "0 Q) s .r:: with Charlotte, his wife of 30 years. She is vice history of and Southern Califor­ .!!! :0 president and dean of student life at the nia. In turn, HSSC heartily welcomes Marilyn :::J 1-- a_ University of Redlands. Solomon to the board of directors. Vroman's and HSSC: HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF A Partnership in Books SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA OFFICERS Larry Burgess TO PARAPHRASE THE LATE AUTHOR and UCLA Librarian PRESIDENT Larry Powell, "A community sleeps better at night with good book Patricia Adler-Ingram stores in it." Denver Markwith Jr. Certainly this has been true of Pasadena and its environs the VICE PRESIDENTS past 100 plus years because of the presence of an independent bookstore like Vroman's. Thomas P. Carson Vroman's, for example, has promoted and sold all of the books TREASURER published by HSSC since 1990. In addition Vroman's has co­ Stephen A. Kanter, MD published three important books with HSSC: Pasadena Sketchbook SECRETARY by Joseph Stoddard, The St. Francis Dam Disaster Revisited, edited DIRECTORS by Doyce Nunis, and Man-Made Disaster by Charles Outland. HSSC Powell M. Greenland is proud to partner with Vroman's in publishing the local hi story of Sandra Burton Greenstein Southern California. E. Peter Mauk But that's not the whole story. Vroman's also launched its "Gives Gloria Miranda John 0 . Pohlmann Back" program in 1998 and as of June 30, 2003, has returned $ 1,790 Gerald L. Prescott to HSSC. This is the one percent Vroman's donates to non-profits Martin Ridge from book sales to those who designate that non-profit for the "Gi ves James A. San dos Back" donation. Marilyn F. Solomon JonWilkman HSSC is honored to be li sted in Vroman's "Gives Back" program (we are number 6 on the list of non-profits). When purchasing your THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAN books from Vroman's please indicate HSSC as your choice for the is published quarterly by the Historical Society "Gives Back" I % donation. And remember, you are not only helping of Southern California, HSSC, you are helping an ever-enlarging community sleep better at a California non-profit night! organization (50 I )(c)(3)

Tom Andrews EX ECUTIVE D IRECTOR

Carole Dougherty Vroman's Gives Back EDITOR

Robert Blew Michele Clark Become a member ofVroman's Gives Back. Tara Fansler Register as a supporter of HSSC and C ONTRIBUTORS Margaret Dickerson Vroman's will give back one percent of your PHOTO C OORDINATOR purchases. The offices of the Historical Society are located in the Lummis Home (EI Alisal) 200 East Avenue 43 Vroman's Los Angeles CA 9003 I Phone: (323) 222-0546 a Pasadena landmark founded in 1894 Website: www.socalhistory.org

carries a wide range of books, including Office Hours Mon-Fri 9-5 those published by HSSC, on local history. The Lummis Home is open to the public Fri-Sun 12-4 Vroman's Group Tours 695 East Colorado Boulevard Fridays by appointment Pasadena, California 91 I 0 I

2 The Historical Society of Southern California presents the 2003

JOIN US LA Councilman Antonio Villaraigosa and Saturday, October 4 HSSC board member Jon Wilkman stand in front of the Pi co House. at The Huntington Lib rary as we honor authors HSSC Receives who have researched and written Award from LA exceptional books on Southern California history. ON JULY 4, 2003 Los Angeles reenacted its first 4th of July Donald H. Pflueger Local History Award celebration which took place in Clark Davis 1847 at Fort Moore, overlook­ Company Men:White-Collar Life & Corporate ing today's El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historic Park. There Cultures in Los Angeles, 189 2-1941 was a parade, a flag raising at Fort Moore, the firing of Cathe ri ne Mulholland muskets, music by a fife and William Mulholland and the Rise of Los Angeles drum corps and Aztec Indian ceremonial dances. The event Martin Ridge Retrospective Award was capped by a Mexican luncheon in the courtyard of the Remi Nadeau 1818 Avila Adobe on The Water Seekers . HSSC was honored by the Carl I. Wheat and Frank Wheat Award city because our journal, the Gary Marmorstein Southern California Quarterly, was the source of research underlying the reenactment.

Norman Neuerburg Award Rose Marie Beebe Robert Senkewicz The History of :A Memoir of Mexican California by Antonio Maria Osio

Doyce B. Nunis Jr. Award Clark Davis

Channel S's Stan Chambers, right, covers the event.

3 HE FOURTEENTH ANNUAL TMuseums of the Arroyo Day took place on Sunday, May 18. This is the day when five unique history-based museums ANOTHER SPECTACULAR outing was produced for the along the Arroyo (the Lummis Home and Historical Society by Jon and Nancy Wilkman on Sunday, Garden, Southwest Museum and Heritage June 8, when a busload of adventurers toured the Los Square in Highland Park and the Gamble Angeles River.The excursion began in the Sepulveda Basin House and Pasadena Museum of History in Pasadena) open their doors free of at the Balboa Wildlife preserve where guests viewed the charge. Shuttle bus service provided river wetlands and had a chance to experience what the area might have been like before agriculture and urban settlement forever changed the valley floor. A tour of the Tillman Water Purification Plant and Japanese Garden followed. After lunch, the group made its way along the river to Cornfields Park in , stopping at various points of interest along the way.

LA RiverTour

Our guides for the day were writer, environmental historian, Princeton and Yale graduate, Jennifer Price, PhD, and Alan Loomis, senior urban designer and graduate of the Southern California Institute of Architecture. Everyone left with an understanding of the important part the river plays in Southern California life.

4 access to the venues and each museum provided special programs celebrating early Southern California life . This year, MOTA celebrated " I 00 Years ofTransportation." In addition to touring the house and waterwise garden, MOTA visitors admired two of Mike Kniest's vintage Model As and heard tales of the exploration of the San Gabriel Mountains by historians, hiking experts, and authors Paul Rippens,John Robinson, and Willis Osborne. Harrison Scott, Ridge Route historian and author, joined us with a special display of his Tejon Pass treasures. And historian Daniel Lewis again delighted guests with his presentation of "Charles F. Lummis in Chautauqua."

History Conference THE EIGHTH ANNUAL HISTORY Conference, "History as Biography: L.A. Lives Worth Knowing," was presented at the Autry Museum ofWestern Heritage on Saturday, March I. This year's event featured speakers Becky Nicolaides of the University of California, San Deigo, Greg Hise of USC, Elisabeth Orr, Long Beach City College, Regina Freer from Occidental College, Suzanne Muchnic, writer for the , and Karen lshizuka and Robert Nakamura of the Japanese American National Museum. One of the highlights of the day was the presentation of O 'Fiaherty Teaching awards to Norm Heldwein of High School and John Ring of La Salle High School. Both were honored for their dedication and creativity in making history come alive for their students. HSSC thanks all the presenters as well as Los Angeles historian, Denise Spooner, who coordinated and directed this year's extremely successful conference.

Arroyo Seco Parkway (also known as the Pasadena I I 0 Freeway) closed for pedestrians and bicyclists on Sunday morning June I 5, 2003.Thousands biked and hiked their way down the freeway duringArroyoFest, an event that focused attention on the quality of life in communities linked by the Arroyo Seco. lt took ten years of planning to persuade the state to allow the three-hour closure. Participants spoke of it as "a magical day."

Text an d photos, except for MOTA Day photos, by Michele Clark. 5 Kay E. Kuter is an actor who lives in North . Mr. Kuter has performed in Shakespearean Repertory and Off Seventh Coin" and "The Hollywood Sign ." He has also appeared in 435 television productions including stints as a

PERHAPS THESE MEMORIES Meeeting Duncan Gleason will explain how delighted I am It was as a member of the to know that HSSC has pub­ Cinemagundi Club that he first lished books on the St. Francis came to know Duncan Gleason. Dam and Duncan Gleason. Later, he and Gleason became members together of The Cape St. Francis Dam Homers, an organization At the age of not quite three, "My Brush with founded by silent star Hobart possibly my earliest recollection History" is an Bosworth, all of whose members of any event is a nighttime visit occasional feature had either sailed 'round The (why at night I have no idea) to a of the Southern Hom or had extensive marine point near the dam site while Californian. experiences either in art or in crews were still at work under Readers are actuality. In my father's case, as floodlights trying to clear debris invited to submit in Gleason's, it was both: as art and restore the washed out their stories. director and having designed the roads. My parents and I were A photograph of ship for the John Robertson prevented from going closer to the author and MGM silent film , "Captain the site by the authorities simply one relating to the Salvation" starring Lars Hanson, because there was no road on story would be and designing the ships for the which to travel. welcome but not first "The Sea Hawk," coming But that stark icon of horror necessary. perilously close to death in a fire pictured in the photo on the on the boat carrying him and cover of Man-Made Disaster, as Duncan Gleason to the mainland it darkly loomed in the back­ from the film's Catalina Island ground beyond the glare of the location, off the coast of which floodlights, is an image that has the ships did battle. been etched forever in my memory. Gleason atWarner Brothers in the '30s Father: A Pioneer My father and Gleason contin­ Art Director ued their friendship and artistic My late father, Leo "K" Kuter, association at Warner Bros. was a pioneer motion picture art Studios where, in the 30s, my director, a founding member and father was associate art director first secretary of the with the celebrated Anton Grot Cinemagundi Club whose on many films, and for which membership was comprised of Duncan Gleason was a set artists and art directors engaged illustrator, including "Green in the movie business. (He was Pastures," "Anthony Adverse," also a founding member, and Errol Flynn's "The Sea Hawk," president before his death in and 'The Sea Wolf." 1970, of the Society of Motion Picture Art Directors-now Academy of Motion Picture titled The Art Directors Guild). Arts and Sciences In 1991 I donated to the Acad­ emy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences my father's 120 feet of

6 of St. Francis Dam and Duncan Gleason by Kay E. Kuter

His 50 feature films, starting with the original "Sabrina," have included "Guys and Dolls," "The Last Starfighter," "The "The X-Files" and "Baywatch." This article is based on his letter to the Historical Society.

shelf-space collection of hi s work and that of his other colleagues and friends ( 1920- 1970) as well as movie scripts, production schedules, break­ downs, still photographs, sketches and set illustrations, now known as "The Leo "K" Kuter Collection," a Special Collection of the Academy. Among its several hundred set illustrations are included numerous ones by Duncan Gleason for the above-named and many other films. Two that I kept for myself, however, and now hang in my home, are a Duncan Gleason moonlit gouache illustration from "The Green Pastures" and a marvel­ ously detailed pencil drawing by Gleason of a waterfront saloon interior fo r "The Sea Wolf. "

Kay E. Kuter

IN THE LATEST ROLE of his 60-

ABOVE: Duncan Gleason produced this 14" by 20 I/2" illustration for the 1941 Warner year career, Kuter plays the Brothers film "The Sea Wolf. " The central figure in the white shirt is meant to represent charaaer Yawn, a thousand­ year-old man. Yawn wakes John Garfield, but Kuter says he looks "a little more like Alan Ladd." This pencil drawing on every hundred years or so smooth showboard is one of two illustrations by Duncan Gleason Kuter keeps in his to impart important news private collection. to the current bigwig of the LEFT: This I 0" by 14" illustration was painted in tempera on art board by Duncan era-if he can remember it. Gleason for the 1936 Warner Brothers film "The Green Pastures." Both illustrations The (lim called "Forbidden were gifts from Duncan Gleason to Kay E. Kuter's father. Kuter has donated scores of Warrior" has just finished illustrations and movie memorabilia from his father's collection to the Academy of shooting and is, Kuter says, "a rather delightful fantasy." Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

7 HSSC and The Haynes Foundation Award 12 Research Grants in Spring 2003

IN ITS FIFTH YEAR of awarding stipends for research on Southern California and Los Angeles history, HSSC is proud to announce that twelve grants were awarded during May of 2003, bring­ ing the total number of grants given since 1998 to one hundred twenty-nine. HSSC has definitely seen the demand for such grants grow the last five years especially on a national level. Seven of the twelve researchers receiving awards this spring are working or study­ ing outside the state. This year's winners includes such wide ranging topics as, Movements in Chicano Music 1965- 1979, Women on the West Coast During World vvar II, Science and the City, and Culture, Community and Politics in Black Los Angeles.

Congratulations to this year's Awardees: Estevan Cesar Azcona (DePauw University). Daniel Cady (Claremont University), April de Stefano (Rutgers University). Donna Graves (Independent Scholar), Abraham Hoffman (Inde­ pendent Scholar), Jennifer Koslow (Newberry Library). Jennifer Light (Northwestern Univer­ sity), Christopher Sellers (SUNY Stony Brook), Emily Straus (Brandeis University). Eileen Y. Wallis (University of Utah), Daniel Widener (University of ), RomyWyllie (Indepen­ dent Scholar)

For a complete listing of Awardees with their subjects, check the HSSC website, www.socalhistory.org

HSSC Announces New HSSC/Whitsett Watts Curates Weston Editorial Assistant Student Fellow Exhibit at Huntington CSUN STUDENT, Lydia Receives Grant AN EXIBIT OF California Balian, has been appointed THE EMERITI of Cali fornia photographer Edward Weston's editorial assistant/intern for the State University Fullerton are work at The Huntington is Southern California Quarterly. pleased to announce that receiving high marks. She replaces IGrsten Marie Trangdai Tranguyen, a graduate Weston printed nearly 1,000 Clemens who is pursuing her student in history, has been negatives after receiving a doctorate in English at Duke awarded one of the two scholar­ Guggenheim grant. He then University. ships they grant each year. negotiated with The Huntington Trangdai intends to pursue a to preserve his work as a body. doctorate in cultural and social The exhibit includes about 150 of his black and white prints. CORRECTION: anthropology, and eventually to Entitled "Edward Weston: A HSSC treasurer do social science research to promote understanding of cross­ Legacy," the exhibit was curated Tom Carson's cultural heritage. by Jennifer Watts. HSSC MBA is from USC. Among her extra-curricular members will remember Jennifer activities are: She has been a was a docent at the Lummis presenter at many conferences of Home while she attended Fuller the Asian Pacific Student Theological Seminary. Association (president 2000- The exhibit-at the Boone 2001 ). She has also been a Gallery of The Huntington­ program director, talk show continues until October 5. For director for the Vietnamese more information Association, and has partici­ call: 626 405-2100 pated in oral history projects documenting Vietnamese­ American experiences.

8 THANK YOU TO THE MARTIN RIDGE ENDOWMENT DoNoRs

The Martin Ridge Endowment has been established in honor of Martin Ridge, a historian and esteemed member of the academic community. He has been an invaluable supporter of the Historical Society.

Anonymous Mr. & Mrs. John T. Gurash Mr. & Mrs. John 0. Pohlmann Mr. David Alexander Ms. Doris Harris Ms. Elizabeth Pomeroy Mr. James Allen Rinard Z. Hart, MD Mrs. John H. Poole Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Andrews Drs. Nadine & Don Hata Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Prescott Mr. & Mrs. Tom Apostol Mr.Aian Hensher Mr. Jackson K. Putnam Mr. Gordon Morris Bakken Mr. Richard Kanarik Professor Peter Reich Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Banning Stephen A Kanter, M.D. Mr. Robert C. Ritchie Ms. Muriel Bartmasser Mr.Walter Karabian Ms. Ruth-Ann Rohman Mr. Robert W . Blew Mr. Mel Kavin Mr. & Mrs. Jerome Selmer Mr. Peter Blodgett Mr. George Kinney Mr. Ralph E. Shaffer Scott L. Bottles Mr. Steven S. Koblik Ms. Margaret Sharma & Catherine Kelly Phil & Marion Kovinick Mr. Tom Sitton

Mr. & Mrs. Larry E. Burgess Harold & Thelma Jo Landon Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Skehan Mr. Kenneth Burt David J. Langum Mrs. Edna N. Smith Dr. & Mrs. Richard Call Mr.Jim Lorson Mr. Paul Spitzzeri Thomas P. Carson Gloria Lothrop, PhD Denise Spooner & Christopher Carson Mr. Kenneth Marcus & Joseph Marino Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Clark Mr. & Mrs. Denver Markwith Raymond Starr, PhD Mr. Michael Dawson Denise Martin Mrs. Irving Stone Ms. Margaret Dickerson & Kenneth Campbell Dr.Warren M.Thomas Mr. & Mrs. Michael Dougherty Mr. & Mrs. Keith S. McDonald Edwin Todd, MD Ms. Connie Vita Dowell Mrs. Edward H. Mclaughlin Mr. & Mrs. Hubert C.Tolford Mrs. Dorothy Dumke Elliott Prof. Daniel J.B. Mitchell Miss Laurene E.Vail Michael E. Engh, SJ Ms. Georgia Morton Ms. Jennifer Watts Iris H.W. Engstrand, PhD Mr. Daniel T. Munoz Mr. Dan Watts Mr. & Mrs. Robert F. Erburu Earl F. Nation, MD Msgr. Francis J. Weber Mr. & Mrs. William W. Escherich Doyce B. Nunis, PhD Westerners International Mr. & Mrs. Sidney K. Gaily Mrs.Joseph O 'Fiaherty Los Angeles Corral Dr. Richard C. Gilman Mr. & Mrs. John Osborne W.P.Whitsett Committee Mr. & Mrs. Powell M. Greenland Mr. & Mrs. Ken Pauley Mr. & Mrs. Jon Wilkman Ms. Sandra Burton Greenstein Mr. & Mrs. James Phillips Ill

9 g?;;~~~e_!/ ~Cl:J? ~1/ecf In Memoriam

IN MEMORY OF

DAVID LAVENDER, who was MIRIAM MATTHEWS, a FELLOW of SIEGFRIED DEMKE elected a FELLOW of HSSC in 1989 the Historical Society, the first black died April 26 at age 93. librarian for the city of Los Ange­ by He was a prolific Western historian les-believed to be the first in Doyce Nunis who rode the range and mined for California-who became an expert gold before crafting more than 40 on preserving and describing black FREDRICK SMITH meticulously researched vo lumes. history died on June 23. Miriam by Praised by Los Angeles Times Matthews was 97. Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Selmer book reviewer Jonathan Kirsch for She was committed to preserving writing history "with rhythm and black history in California and began PETER STRICKLER gritty detail of a yarn told around a a pioneering effort in Los Angeles in by campfire," Lavender delved into a 1929 to promote observation of what Gloria R. Lothrop PhD wide variety of Western themes. His was then Negro History Week, now Doyce Nunis PhD books spanned the region, touching Black History Month. She had down in locales as diverse as the remained a key resource in the wilderness camps of the early fur annual celebration. The HSSC Tr ibute trappers and the boardrooms of the Matthews was working at a city Program honors railroad barons. branch library early in her career or remembers Twice nominated for the Pulitzer when she discovered "a small Prize, he received many awards for collection of books on the Negro" family and friends. his work. In 1997 he received the and became intrigued. It was then she Donations made prestigious Wa ll ace Stegner Award began researching ways blacks had to HSSC help from the Center of the American put their stamp on the Golden State. support our West. programs. Taken from an article by Steve Chawkins in the Taken from an article by Myrn a O liver in the Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times

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10 Meet Ann Gray of Balcony Press

DDING HER NAME to the roster of Garcetti's more recent Iron, featuring intriguing talented members of the Historical Society images of erecting the steel for Frank Gehry's A of Southern California is Ann Gray, Disney Concert Hall. publisher of Balcony Press. The tall redhead is a There's more to Balcony Press than beautifully native of California with degrees in applied designed books with stunning photographs; Ann mathematics and a master of architecture, both Gray also publishes the magazine LA Architect, a from UCLA. The last eight of Ann's twenty years provocative and eye-catching magazine which in the field of architecture were spent as studio draws readers and advertisers nationally. LA architect of Paramount Pictures, building sound Architect has been the recipient of the prestigious stages, parking structures and office buildings. Maggie Award for Best Special Interest Trade When Yiacom bought Paramount, construction Publication for two years in a row. This type of at the Jot was halted and Ann began to search for recognition has brought another honor to Ann; in by another career challenge. Her husband Peter 2002 she was elevated to the AlA College of Virginia Comer

Sharnray, owner of Pasadena's Navigator Press, Fellows for her contributions to advancing the Virginia Comer is the encouraged his wife to pursue her dream of book profession of architecture. author of six books on publishing. Meanwhile Balcony Press is handsomely Los Angeles, including In 1994, Ann founded Balcony Press with her situated on Wilson Avenue in Glendale, an easy . Her latest publication is a series on personal savings and Peter's help on the manufac­ commute for Ann who lives in San Marino with the steps, street lights turing end. She sent her first press release to the husband Peter and their daughter, Abby. Even as a and fountains of Los Society of Architectural Historians announcing the wife and mother Ann's transition from architect to Angeles published by fledgling Balcony Press and inviting authors to publisher was not difficult. She always knew she Balcony Press submit manuscripts. Though there was only one wanted to go into publishing; it had been on her list reply, it was a fortuitous one. The book, Los of fantasy occupations. "This," she says, "is the Angeles, the End of the Rainbow, by architectural perfect life." historian Merry Ovnick went on to win the Historical Society's Donald Pflueger Award for local history. Ovnick's book on housing styles, starting with the Native Americans to the 1994 Northridge earthquake, launched the Press to rave reviews. Architectural historian Robert Winter compared it to Carey McWilliams' classic South­ ern California, An Island on the Land. In less than one year the initial press run easily sold out. Balcony Press had put its best foot forward and that early success confirmed Ann's belief that there would be a market for the books she wanted to publish. The success story didn't stop with Ovnick's book; Bullocks Wilshire, the history of LA's notable Art Deco department store, won a Western Book Association award for graphic design. Books like The Last Remaining Seats, Movie Palaces of Tinseltown, Iconic LA and Cal Tech's Architectural Heritage are indicative of the architectural perspective Ann Gray brings to her publishing. Architectural critic Sam Hall Kaplan, in a review of three books on LA's architectural elements, said the books were "published with obvious love by Balcony Press, which is fast becoming a welcomed font for chronicling architecture and design in LA." Kaplan's com­ ments could refer just as well to Julius Shulman's Ann G ray Photographing Architecture and interiors or Gil

11 Save President's Circle These Dates The Historical Society of Southern California thanks President's Circle members who support the society annually at the $1 ,000 or more level. Tuesday The gifts are unrestricted and help to underwrite September 9, 2003 society programs and publications. 6:00pm

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