Manuscripts

Los Angeles Athletic Club history

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Description: The reminiscence covers the formation of three business enterprises in southern California: the Los Angeles Athletic Club, the Los Angeles Telephone Company and the Southern California Fruit Exchange. The manuscript discusses in general Los Angeles history, as well as business enterprises and the orange industry in southern California. There is also a typed letter by Frank A. Garbutt, fellow founder of the athletic club, to Sherer regarding the manuscript.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1941.
Call number: mssHM 67909-67910
Creator: Sherer, John Calvin (1852-1949)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Cherokee Bookshop, April 12, 1971.

The Women's Athletic Club of Los Angeles

Rare Books

An early prospectus for potential new members of the newly built Women's Athletic Club. The club had just been completed, at a cost of more than $1 million (raised from members and a loan from the Bank of Italy, later Bank of America). The club, a female response to Los Angeles' oldest private club, the all-male Los Angeles Athletic Club, offered upper-middle class women and a growing female professional class opportunities for recreation and socializing. The building, thoroughly illustrated in this pamphlet, provided sports facilities and hotel rooms.

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Los Angeles Athletic Club photograph collection

Visual Materials

This collection contains photographs of the members and grounds of the Southern California beach and golf clubs that formed part of the Los Angeles Athletic Club in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The clubs represented are the Santa Monica Athletic Club and Deauville Club (Items 1-16 and 74-83, 65-98); the Hermosa Beach Surf and Sand Club (Items 17-55, and 84); the Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades (Items 56-65); and the Long Beach Pacific Coast Club (Items 66-73). The photographs, presumably created as promotional images, include images depicting clubhouse buildings and rooms, as well as members engaged in leisure activities such as sunbathing, swimming, beach volleyball, and golf. Nearly half of the photographs are close-up shots of beach-goers, often young women posing in swimsuits. One set of images depicts women in bathing suits posing for a 1932 Santa Monica Athletic Club fashion show, include two photographs of child actress Shirley Temple (Items 97-98). The items consist of 98 8 x 10 in. black-and-white copy prints with corresponding film negatives, as well as an additional box containing approximately 70 unidentified/unprinted negatives and 1 reel of 16mm film labeled "Jess Willard & strong man, LAAC roof 1933."

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Los Angeles Athletic Club

Manuscripts

2 items: article copy, Mercury (publ. by L.A. Athletic Club), 10/29/1930, "How the Greater L.A.A.C. was built" ; article copy, Mercury, 1944, tribute to "Harry Chandler." FACSIMILES MAY NOT BE COPIED OR PUBLISHED.

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Los Angeles Athletic Club bicycle team, Oct. 3, 1893

Visual Materials

Los Angeles Athletic Club bicycle team, left to righ: 1. McSleer, Mayor's brother, 2. Ray Faulkner, department assistant in City offices, 3. Freddy Holbrook, 4. Will Jenkins.

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Dedication of Harry Chandler Memorial Pool with the Los Angeles Athletic Club

Manuscripts

Black and white photograph. Caption on verso reads, "Los Angeles Athletic Club swimming stars entertain guests at dedication of Harry Chandler Memorial Pool in Salvation Army Youth Center."

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Wrestling match on beach, Santa Monica Athletic Club

Visual Materials

Image of a crowd amid beach umbrellas watching two wrestlers in an outdoor boxing ring on the beach in front of the Santa Monica Athletic Club in Santa Monica, California. The Santa Monica Athletic Club building and a cafe sign advertising "Clam Chowder" can be seen in the background. The man in the bottom right corner is wearing shorts with the initials "LAAC," for the Los Angeles Athletic Club.

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