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This collection consists of six photographs of fire hazards in slum neighborhoods in Los Angeles, California during the 1940s.

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The collection consists of sales brochures, aerial photographs, newsletters, and other documents obtained by Douglas and Eunice Goodan during the course of their real estate work in the Los Feliz and Silverlake areas of Los Angeles. They operated Hoover Real Estate, the leading real estate firm in the area during the second half of the 20th century.

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The Los Feliz Improvement Association was formed in 1922 to represent the homeowners of the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles. The association worked to protect historic trees and homes, and to prevent developments they felt would harm the upscale residential feel of the neighborhood. Much of the collection deals with fights against zoning changes that would have allowed construction of unsightly walls or that would have allowed commercial development.

Abstract Mario Jose de Souza Machado, a Portuguese-Chinese descendant, was born in Shanghai, China on April 22, 1935. He was an eight-time Emmy Award-winning television and radio broadcaster, and was also heavily involved in local community and Old China Hands events. He helped organize the 1996 Old China Hands Reunion in Las Vegas, Nevada, and invited special guest speakers from various governments, media, and business. The collection consists mostly of documents regarding the 1996 reunion, in...

Abstract Marjorie Macris was born on January 30, 1935 in Chicago and raised in the Midwest. Macris was a pioneer for women in the field of city planning. She worked as planning director for Marin County and the City of Berkeley. Macris passed away in San Francisco on October 16, 2023. The collection documents the professional life and career of Marjorie Macris from the time she began her career as one of the only female planners, to her retirement and work as a planning consultant. Materials include...

Abstract Yervand Markarian was born in Harbin, China, to Armenian refugees, and he grew up in Tientsin where his father ran a billiards hall. He attended St. Louis College in Tientsin, and in 1939 volunteered to fight in World War II with the French Foreign Legion. After serving some time working as a police officer in the French Concession in Shanghai, he opened a Russian restaurant, Kavkaz, which served as the headquarters for the American forces after World War II. After the Communist takeover...

Abstract Lee Mayo enlisted in the US Army in October of 1941, just before Pearl Harbor Day. He kept a diary, titled "My Life in the Service" between July 23, 1944 and December 18, 1945, while moving around the South Pacific. He spent most of that time in the Philippines, fighting in the Battle of Manila in 1945, but also visited and wrote about other locations on Luzon and Leyte. He writes about such things as Japanese suicide bombers attacking his ship, Japanese soldiers committing suicide to avoid...

Abstract The Valley Music Theatre was formerly located at 20600 Ventura Boulevard in Woodland Hills, between the Ventura Freeway exits of Winnetka and Canoga Avenues. Intended to be the first professional local performing arts center in the San Fernando Valley, the theatre was the brain-child of stage-producer Nick Mayo who, with partners Randolph Hale, Cy Warner and Art Linkletter, formed VMT, Inc. as a public corporation. The collection contains the bound playbills and programs given to Nick Mayo,...

Abstract Margarita Piel McCoy began her work in the planning industry in 1959 when she was elected a member on the planning board for Sudbury, Massachusetts. McCoy attended Wells College and Northwestern University in 1940, then transferred to Boston University where she earned her Bachelor of Arts in English in 1944. After finishing graduate school at the University of Southern California in 1970, McCoy went on to become the first full-time female planning professor and the first female department...

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The Donald H. McGill Collection consists of just a few of Mr. McGill’s keepsakes which include a letter written by McGill and posted from France in March of 1945, a sheet of head shots, and his Presidential Commission in the United States Army.