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L.A. Stories: Community Spotlight

Invitation to Walt Disney and the Art of Animation, 1942

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1. Apiary at Sierra Madre Villa, San Gabriel
2. Bliss family farmhouse John Bliss built this Victorian farmhouse on Bliss Ranch. He and his family bred horses and cultivated citrus trees. They lived here for a short time before selling the property to the Pacific Electric Railway Company who would make Bliss Ranch the northern terminus of the rail line that ran along Brand Boulevard. The Bliss family moved to Santa Monica where they established a grocery store. John Bliss dies in 1934 at the age of 68.
3. Bliss Ranch Bliss Ranch was located in Glendale near the base of the Verdugo Mountains on what is now the Rossmoyne and Verdugo Woodlands area. The property was once part of the Rancho Santa Rafael Spanish land grant owned by Jose Maria Verdugo. Brothers John and Robert Bliss, originally from Philadelphia, purchased the land in 1894 from Reverend George Baugh. John and his family lived there for a short time, selling the property to J.S. McMillan, general manager of the Pacific Electric Railway Co.
4. Cal Rodgers landing his “Vin Fiz” in Tournament Park, Pasadena, California On November 5, 1911, Calbraith Perry Rodgers (right) landed his bi-plane nicknamed the “Vin Fiz” in Pasadena's Tournament Park before a crowd of approximately 20,000 people, successfully completing the first U.S. transcontinental flight. Taking off from Sheepshead Bay, New York, on September 17, Rodgers landed in Long Beach on December 10—a trip that required 70 landings and took 84 days. The "Vin Fiz" was later donated to the Smithsonian Institution.
5. Casa Verdugo To make the northern terminus of their streetcar system a destination, Pacific Electric turned the Sepulveda Adobe and the surrounding property into “Casa Verdugo,” which opened in 1905 and included a popular restaurant and garden. The Adobe was the residence of Rafaela Verdugo de Sepulveda, granddaughter of Jose Maria Verdugo, owner of the original Rancho Santa. The restaurant was owned by Mrs. Piedad Yorba de Sowl who, according to advertisements, served genuine Spanish meals.
6. Gladys Brown Edwards
7. Invitation to Walt Disney and the Art of Animation, 1942
8. Hay Milliones de Rostros Como Este This cartoon-like print, whose title translates to “there are millions of faces like this,” depicts a drawing of a “jornalero” or day laborer whose portrait consists of dozens of smaller faces. The faces are men and women, young and old, expressing joy, defeat, and everything in between. The raised fist in the top of the hat places the print in the context of worker and communal solidarity, making the ordinary jornalero a reflection of the unity and alliance among Latino workers throughout the nation.
9. Jornaleros en la Lucha
10. January 1940 issue of the Olive View patient newsletter Olive View Points Occupying the site of what is today the Olive View-UCLA Medical Center in Sylmar, the Olive View Sanatorium opened in 1920 as a residential treatment facility for tuberculosis at a time when the disease was widespread and many came to Southern California seeking healing in the warm, dry climate. Olive View grew rapidly into the largest tuberculosis sanatorium in the western United States, and the sanatorium’s records at USC include many fascinating items about life, treatments, and research at Olive View.