Stephen Gee is a writer and television producer based in Los Angeles. A graduate of City, University of London, he began his career as a newspaper reporter in Norfolk, England. He has lived in Los Angeles since 1995. He is the author of Iconic Vision: John Parkinson, Architect of Los Angeles (Angel City Press), and co-author, with Arnold Schwartzman, of Los Angeles Central Library: A History of its Art and Architecture (Angel City Press), which won the 2015 Glenn Goldman Award for Art, Architecture, and Photography, presented by the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association.
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Los Angeles City Hall is among the most iconic buildings in America; some say, the world. A bold symbol of the ambition of America and its people, City Hall graces California as one of its most enduring landmarks. Stephen Gee’s Los Angeles City Hall: An American Icon is the definitive book chronicling its history. When it opened its doors in 1928, the new Los Angeles City Hall was the tallest building in the city and undeniably beloved by its people—and they hadn’t even been inside yet. More than a half-million people lined the streets to celebrate the dedication of the monolith that symbolized Los Angeles’s transition from West Coast outpost to world-class metropolis. President Calvin Coolidge pressed a gold telegraph key in the White House, sending the signal to officially switch on the Lindbergh Beacon atop Los Angeles City Hall, its brilliant beam of light shooting an equally brilliant message into the night sky: Los Angeles City Hall was complete. The news spread round the world. In the pages of Los Angeles City Hall: An American Icon, author Stephen Gee shares the dramatic saga of the building’s creation and showcases the architecture, artwork, and details that define City Hall in more than 200 lavish images, blueprints, and drawings—many of them never-before published. Gee also chronicles the effort to restore the building and the political fight that preceded its return to glory. |
March 2, 2019 - Virginia Elwood-Akers
Author of Caroline Severance
I am a retired librarian who worked for thirty years at California State University, Northridge, as the subject specialist in the field of women studies. I am a second-generation native of Los Angeles - unusual for a person in my generation - who received her BA from UCLA. her MLS from the University of Oregon, and a Master's Degree in Mass Communication from California State University, Northridge. My first book Women War Correspondents in the Vietnam War, 1961-1975, was published in 1988. I began researching the life of Caroline Severance in 1990. Caroline Severance is the first full-length biography of this important woman in American history.
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Virginia Elwood-Akers presents the biography of one of the forgot ten heroines of the American womans suffrage movement of the nineteenth century.Based upon twenty years of exhaustive research, this is the biography of a woman who was in the forefront of every human rights movement of her time. Caroline was an abolitionist, a suffragist, an advocate for womens health and women physicians, a peace activist, and a socialist. She was a leader of the suffrage movement before the Civil War and afterward lived to vote in an American presidential election.
Born in western New York when it was the frontier of the United States, she ended her life on another western frontier, in Los Angeles, California. |
April 6, 2019 - Joseph Feeney
The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
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Joe Feeney, has been in the Huntington Westerners history organization for twenty years and has served on the board for four years will be presenting The Treaty of Guadalupe - Hidalgo.
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May 4, 2019 - Professor Terence Young
Heading Out - To Walk in the Woods
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the San Gabriel Mountains were delightful for picnicking, camping or hiking, but when Angeles Crest Highway began to push through them in the 1930s, this idyllic natural setting was threatened. Two champions arose to defend their local mountains. Although they did not derail the highway, their campaign produced the Pacific Crest Trail. Dr. Terence Young, professor emeritus at Cal Poly Pomona and author of Heading Out: A History of American Camping, recounted how Clinton Clarke of Pasadena and Alhambra’s Warren Rogers fought for years to protect America’s Pacific Slope from unwanted development.
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