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Gordon Pattison presents "Old Bunker Hill: One Family's Perspective" at the LAVA Sunday Salon, May 2013
On the last Sunday of each month , LAVA welcomes interested individuals to gather in downtown Los Angeles (noon-2pm), for a loosely structured conversational Salon featuring short presentations and opportunities to meet and connect with one another.
At the May 2013 Salon, Gordon Pattison shared the bittersweet story of his family's history atop Bunker Hill, and how their homes came to be the last two Victorians standing once the CRA cleared the hill for redevelopment. For more about the May Salon, click here.
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J. Scott Smith presents "29 Palms" at the LAVA Sunday Salon, May 2013
On the last Sunday of each month , LAVA welcomes interested individuals to gather in downtown Los Angeles (noon-2pm), for a loosely structured conversational Salon featuring short presentations and opportunities to meet and connect with one another.
At the May 2013 Salon, photographer J. Scott Smith gave a talk on his "29 Palms" project, sharing images from the series and describing his creative process and adventures in the palm tree underground. For more about the May Salon, click here.
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The History of Savannah Memorial Park
On Memorial Day 2013, LAVA members visited Savannah Memorial Park, the oldest Protestant cemetery in Southern California, for tours of the historic pioneer graveyard led by board members Virgil Ervin and Bob Bruesch. This is their introduction to the cemetery and the non-profit that maintains it.
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The Ukulady's pioneer cemetery set at Savannah Memorial Park
On Memorial Day 2013, The Ukulady brought her pioneer songs to Savannah Memorial Park, the oldest Protestant cemetery in Southern California. It sounded a little something like this...
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Marc Chevalier presents a talk on James Oviatt at the LAVA Sunday Salon, March 2013
On the last Sunday of each month , LAVA welcomes interested individuals to gather in downtown Los Angeles (noon-2pm), for a loosely structured conversational Salon featuring short presentations and opportunities to meet and connect with one another.
At the March 2013 Salon, Oviatt Building scholar Marc Chevalier gave a lecture with accompanying slide show on the life and times of James Oviatt. Topics include Oviatt's eponymous building, his contributions to the Art Deco in Los Angeles, his fashionable haberdashery Alexander & Oviatt, myths, legends and the even more fascinating reality. For more about the March Salon, click here.
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Scenes from the fifth LAVA Salon (A Dashiell Hammett Evening)
April 27, 2013 - Los Angeles Athletic Club
Above: Conjuring the noir spirit of Dashiell Hammett at the LAVA Literary Salon are Stephanie Torronez, Richard Schave, Mike Austin, David Ross.
Above: Julie Rivett drinks a toast to her grandfather, the writer / activist Dashiell Hammett.
Above: Guest Terry Ellsworth in a zen moment in the buffet line; early comedy cinema historian Brent Walker at right.
Photos by Chinta Cooper. See more of them here.
Host: Richard Schave
Presenters: Julie Rivett and Richard Layman
Musical Director: David Ross
The Long Beach Shakespeare Company under the direction of Helen Borgers: John LeMay as Nick Charles, Stephanie Torronez as Nora Charles and the Russian Princess. Mike Austin as the Continental Op, Jesse Seann Atkinson as Sam Spade and Natalie Maclachlan as Brigid O'Shaughnessy.
Above: Mike Austin, as the Continental Op, draws a bead on the Russian Princess.
Event info here.
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Mark Wild on the history of street speaking in Los Angeles, at the LAVA Sunday Salon (February 2013)
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On the last Sunday of each month, LAVA welcomes interested individuals to gather in downtown Los Angeles (noon-2pm), for a loosely structured conversational Salon featuring short presentations and opportunities to meet and connect with one another. For more information about the February 2013 Salon, click here.
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Watch (or at least listen) to the 3-D projection program "George Mann's Lost Los Angeles"
November 14, 2012: LAVA – The Los Angeles Visionaries Association and the On Bunker Hill time travel blog in association with the Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection and Photo Friends present George Mann’s Lost Los Angeles, a celebration of a newly-discovered treasure trove of mid-century photographs captured by the one-time Vaudeville dance sensation, and projected for the first time tonight in stunning 3-D Kodachrome. Join us as historians Richard Schave (Esotouric) and Nathan Marsak (On Bunker Hill) contextualize the places, 3-D experts Susan Pinsky and David Starkman (Reel 3-D) demystify the format’s history and technology, and Bunker Hill native son Gordon Pattison takes us on a virtual tour of his beloved neighborhood.
More info on this event: http://lavatransforms.org/mann3d
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LAVA Goes 3-D for an evening of George Mann's Lost Los Angeles at LAPL
Gordon Pattison, Nathan Marsak and Richard Schave narrate our trip through the lost downtown neighborhood of Bunker Hill. Photo by J. Scott Smith.
Nathan Marsak refuses to take his 3-D glasses off, in hopes that Bunker Hill will be reborn. Photo by J. Scott Smith.
Photos from this event.
