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When I Think of Home: Images from L.A. Archives

Lanterman House Courtyard, c. 1915

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1. El Exmo. Sr. Presidente interino de los Estados-Unidos Mexicanos ... Se erige en ciudad el pueblo de los Angeles de la Alta California ... In the 1830s, Mexican California was embroiled in power struggles between north and south. This decree documents competition for the provincial capital. It not only elevated the pueblo of Los Angeles to the dignity of a city, the first in Alta California, but also designated Los Angeles as the capital. This measure passed the National congress due to the efforts of Carlos Antonio CarriIlo, provincial deputy from California to the Mexican congress and the author of the Exposition of 1831.
2. Silver Lake Terrace promotional pamphlet
3. Lanterman House Courtyard, c. 1915
4. Life in the Rancho Los Cerritos Courtyard
5. Manuel Liera, ca. 1925
6. Happy to be in Los Angeles, California Los Angeles in 1949 meant a lot of ex-military personnel were finding a new life for their families. Many of my Romero uncles, aunts, grandparents and cousins had migrated to LA from Albuquerque by this time. The Romeros had been in NM since 1751. They chose the neighborhoods close to Downtown and each other. My father's first house was 160 W. 76 St., South Los Angeles. Genealogy helped me tell this story. —Cathy Romero
7. Happy to be in Los Angeles, California Los Angeles in 1949 meant a lot of ex-military personnel were finding a new life for their families. Many of my Romero uncles, aunts, grandparents and cousins had migrated to LA from Albuquerque by this time. The Romeros had been in NM since 1751. They chose the neighborhoods close to Downtown and each other. My father's first house was 160 W. 76 St., South Los Angeles. Genealogy helped me tell this story. —Cathy Romero
8. Funeral at Manzanar Incarceration Camp
9. Returning evacuated Japanese Americans, 1945
10. Wong Family in front of Home, 1960 Henry and Heong Wong are pictured here with their children, Violet, Rose, Howard, and Edward in front of their family home on 10th Street in Los Angeles (not pictured is their son Morland). The family were the owners of Henry’s Market, a small grocery store in LA. New economic opportunities provided generations of Chinese American families to build a life in Los Angeles and a long-term future in America.
11. Hoy Marchamos Mañana Votamos (Today We March, Tomorrow We Vote), 2006 Los Angeles is home to millions of migrants and immigrants, many of whom are undocumented. A photograph of the March 25, 2006 demonstration for immigrant rights—the largest demonstration in California history with more than one million participants—promoted the May 1, 2006 immigrant rights march, attended by approximately 500,000. It opposed HR 4437, The Border Protection, Anti-terrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005 (passed in the House, defeated in the Senate).
12. The Writer Speaks: Garry Marshall Garry Marshall (1934-2016) was a prolific and successful film and television writer, director and producer. He is known for creating the TV series Happy Days and its spins-offs and directing such classic films as Pretty Woman, Beaches and The Princess Diaries. Originally from New York, Marshall describes in this excerpt his early career writing jokes and the writing job that brought him to Los Angeles.
13. The Writer Speaks: Jean Rouverol Butler Jean Rouverol Butler (1916-2017) and her husband Hugo were victims of the Hollywood Blacklist during the 1950s, when the House Un-American Activities Committee investigated the political affiliations of Hollywood workers. Many people lost their careers and screenwriters such as Hugo and Jean were particularly targeted. In this excerpt, Jean recounts the night two men came to the door to deliver a subpoena. She and her family fled LA, eventually settling in Mexico, returning to CA 13 years later.
14. CHASHM ANDAAZ , Iranian Jewish Chronicle, No.129 November/December 2006 [In Persian and English] ©2020.SHELLEYGAZIN. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ©2020.SHELLEYGAZIN. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. This issue of Los Angeles-based publication CHASHM ANDAAZ , Iranian Jewish Chronicle, No.129 features a cover story interview with L.A. native, PHOTOGRAPHER SHELLEY GAZIN about her documentary project illuminating the immigration story of Iranian-Jews in Los Angeles, where the largest enclave of I-Js outside of Iran have made their home after escaping persecution in their native homeland.

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The Lanterman House Archives preserves and makes available a wide range of materials pertaining to the history of the Crescenta-Cañada Valley for the historical and cultural education of the City of La Cañada Flintridge, the Greater Los Angeles Area, and the State of California. Major collections include the Lanterman Family Papers, the Frank D. Lanterman Sheet Music Collection, and the Local History Collection of the Crescenta-Cañada Valley and La Cañada Flintridge. The Archives also house the political papers of Frank D. Lanterman, whose 28-year career as a California State Assemblyman yielded significant advances for the rights of the developmentally disabled as well as water rights for unincorporated areas. The Lanterman House Archive's series of 45 oral histories bring the area to life through interviews with residents and local historians on topics ranging from education, to water rights, to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The Lanterman House, owned by Dr. Roy and Emily Lanterman, was designed by architect Arthur Haley in 1915 and features a U-shaped Mexican Colonial hacienda design. The house's interior, which is completely restored and decorated with English Arts and Crafts design elements, includes its original furnishings. Now a museum, the Lanterman House is open to visitors for tours. https://www.lantermanhouse.org/
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1. Lanterman House Exterior, West Elevation, 1915 Built in 1915, the Lanterman House was one of the first reinforced concrete homes built west of the Mississippi River. This innovative building material was chosen because of the Lanterman’s interest in preventing fire and earthquake damage. Designed by Arthur Haley, the house features a U-shaped Mexican Colonial hacienda design with a fountain courtyard in the middle, pergolas with plantings on all sides of the house, and English Arts and Crafts design elements throughout.
2. Roy and Emily Lanterman Sitting in the Lanterman House Living Room, ca. 1920 Roy and Emily Lanterman converse in the living room of their home, El Retiro, also known as the Lanterman House, in La Cañada Flintridge, California. Roy Lanterman’s family founded La Cañada in the 1870s. He and his wife Emily built the house in 1915 and their sons donated the house and all of its original furnishings to the city of La Cañada Flintridge in the 1980s. The living room today looks much the same as the Lantermans left it.
3. Lanterman House Courtyard, c. 1915