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340 Seagulls of the California Coast at Santa Monica Longshaw Card Co., Los Angeles, 1951, SLL 2005 See Image and Text
Donald M. Cleland A History of the Santa Monica Schools 1876-1951, Santa Monica Unified School District, February 1952 (Copied for the Santa Monica Library, July 22, 1963). 140 pp., 1951 See Text
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Monica City Hall ( A guide to), Santa Monica and the Getty Trust,
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James W. Lunsford The Ocean and the Sunset, The Hills and the Clouds: Looking at Santa Monica, illustrated by Alice N. Lunsford, 1983, 1951, See Text
Tom Moran and Tom Sewell Fantasy by the Sea Peace Press: Culver City, CA, 1980 (1979) (Originally published by Beyond Baroque Foundation with a grant from the Visual Arts Program of the National Endowment for the Arts), 1951 See Text
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340 Seagulls of the California Coast at Santa Monica Longshaw Card Co., Los Angeles, 1951, SLL 2005
340 Seagulls of the California Coast at Santa Monica
340 Seagulls of the California Coast at Santa Monica Longshaw Card Co., Los Angeles, 1951, SLL 2005
Donald M. Cleland A History of the Santa Monica Schools 1876-1951, Santa Monica Unified School District, February 1952 (Copied for the Santa Monica Library, July 22, 1963). 140 pp., 1951, 1950s, 1922, 1915, 1907, 1903
Currently, Washington School has an average enrollment of nearly 420 children from kindergarten to grade six. There is a faculty of fifteen including a full-time principal and remedial teacher. The school is to have a new cafeteria-auditorium building from the bond funds voted in 1950. This addition should complete the facilities of the school, and as there is limited space available, the growth of the school is restricted to its present site. [51. From Personal Interview with Sadie Jenkens (secretary to the Superintendent of Schools since 1921), May 2, 1951; Santa Monica.] pp. 48-52,
Summary
Thus by the beginning of the twentieth century, the scope of the Santa Monica schools had encompassed the full twelve grades. The board of trustees and the patrons of the district had been able to provide adequately for all the children who desired to attend the schools. The original Santa Monica School had had so many changes due to the early growth of the community, that the original section was hardly recognizable to the very early pioneers. From a humble beginning in two rooms, it had virtually burst at the seams on subsequent occasions so that at one time four rooms were added in one wing and later another wing, containing two rooms, was built.
As the town continued to grow and little children, especially, were required to walk long distances to school, the parents petitioned the board for the establishment of small schools in outlying area. In turn, the board had established the South Side School in Ocean Park, the Canyon School in Santa Monica Canyon, the Calabasas School and the Garripatas Canyon School. As new schools were added, they were established first in rented buildings and, as the need became apparent, the board purchased property and erected permanent buildings thereon. Almost identical one-room schoolhouses were built in the South Side and Canyon areas. The original Canyon schoolhouse is still in use as part of the present school, now associated with the Los Angeles City Schools.
The South Side School is the only one remaining of these early schools operating as an elementary school in Santa Monica. In 1904, the name of the school was changed to the Washington School. The school still serves the Ocean Park area and provides for kindergarten and grades one to six. The building, then an eight-room structure, was destroyed by fire in 1908, but was rebuilt as a twelve-room school. This, in turn, was seriously damaged during the earthquake of 1933, so that again, in 1934, it was rebuilt with a new four-room primary unit and modern upper grade rooms. It continues as a fourteen-room unit today. p. 55
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It is perhaps worthy of mention that Nettie Rice has served the Santa Monica City Schools for a longer period of time than has any other teacher in the system. First employed by the Board in 1903, she was assigned to teach second grade in the South Side School. After four years in this position, she was appointed principal of the Garfield School, in which capacity she served from 1907 until 1922. From 1922, when she returned to the classroom until her retirement in 1951, Miss Rice was a teacher in the Lincoln Junior High School. [56. Pearl, op. cit., p. 34.] Her devotion to her work and her selfless service to both her day and evening classes have won for her the admiration and esteem of the entire community.
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Since June 1951, driver education has become a requirement for graduating [from Santa Monica Schools] and must be taken by all student in the junior and senior years. [69. Student's Manual, p. 10.]
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More recently classes in many other areas have been added to the adult education program at the request of individuals in the community. Some of these are upholstering, jewelry making, driver education, minerals and gems, public speaking, hooked rug making, and wood carving. The adult education program offers classes in orchestra, civic opera, community chorus, civic band, and vocational orchestra. [58. Bulletin of Information and Announcement of Courses, 1950-51, Santa Monica: Santa Monica City College, 1951, pp. 74-77.]
Over a period of years many adults have enrolled in one course of a recreational or semi-vocational nature, only to become interested in more academic subjects and to pursue those until they have completed the requirements for a high school diploma. Moreover, within the last four years the adult education program has approved courses leading to graduation with an associate of arts degree from Santa Monica City College. [59. Ibid., p. 77.]
Historic Santa Monica City Hall (A guide to), Santa Monica and the Getty Trust, 2004
"The first change to the original City Hall occurred when a rose garden was planted in front of the entrance as a memorial to local men killed in war. Dedicated on Armistice Day, 1951, the rose garden still provides a space for remembrance and reflection."
James W. Lunsford The Ocean and the Sunset, The Hills and the Clouds: Looking at Santa Monica, illustrated by Alice N. Lunsford, 1983, 1951,
"4. Memorial Rose Garden. Dedicated by the Gold Star Mothers of Santa Monica on November 11, 1951, to Santa Monica men and women who gave their lives in the service of their country. Oddly, although the bougainvillea is the official flower of Santa Monica, no bougainvilleas are planted at City Hall or, apparently, at any other municipal sites."
Tom Moran and Tom Sewell Fantasy by the Sea Peace Press: Culver City, CA, 1980 (1979) (Originally published by Beyond Baroque Foundation with a grant from the Visual Arts Program of the National Endowment for the Arts), 1951
Champagne Music
"The once-steller Aragon Ballroom on the Lick Pier had fallen on sad times by early 1951. The dance hall suffered peeling paint and broken windows. The most recent orchestra to occupy the bandstand had drawn only eight couples onto the dance floor. KTLA, a local television stattion, had canceled its weekly telecast of Argaon concerts because of low viewer interest.
"In a effort to salvage the sagging ballroom trade, Gordon "Pops" Sadrup, the Aragon manager, turned to a bandleader who had been a success on the pier five years earlier. In 1946, Lawrence Welk's brand of light popular danceable music had drawn crowds at the Aragon despite the competition of Tommy Dorsey at the nearby Casino Gardens.
"Welk agreed to play at the Aragon and KTLA was persuaded to reconsider the telecast of the program. The first televised show ws May 2, 1951, and viewer interest was high, despite the late 11:50 p.m. time slot. . . . It was not long before the "champagne music" of Lawrence Welk, live from the Aragon Ballroom, became a popular national television attraction.
"Welk left the Aragon Ballroom for the larger Hollywood Paladium. Joining him later were the four daughters of a talented Venice family. The girls, known as the Lennon Sisters, became one of the most popular attractions on the Welk show."