Watch the recorded presentations with two of our 2020 LACHS Scholarship recipients. Students presents their essays followed by a Q&A session.

Watch the recorded presentation with Jared Nigro, COO, Los Angeles Railroad Heritage Foundation: The Day The Captain Almost Dropped in for a French Dip - The Story of Santa Fe Number 19's Famous 1947 Crash at Los Angeles Union Station.

All of Los Angeles lost an icon in Tom LaBonge today but Tom was an especially good friend to the Los Angeles City Historical Society.

Watch the recorded presentations with three of our 2020 LACHS Scholarship recipients. Students presents their essays followed by a Q&A session.

Watch the recorded presentation with Alison Rose Jefferson: Black Leaders of Leisure and the California Dream during the Jim Crow Era - The Implications of their Stories for Our Lives Today.

Watch the recorded presentation with Christina Rice, Senior Librarian at the Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection.

Watch the recorded presentation with Los Angeles City Historical Society board member Geraldine Knatz: A Century of Marine Science at the Port of Los Angeles.

by Geraldine Knatz, LACHS Board Member

After construction of the San Pedro breakwater was completed in 1912, Los Angeles outer harbor  was used to support U.S. naval operations.  As early as 1913, submarines would berth along the San Pedro waterfront. But it was not until 1914 that the Harbor Commission allowed the Navy the use of City Dock No. 1 and part of its transit sheds as a temporary base for submarines.   Once the Navy got onsite, however,  they expanded to take over much of the pier, transit sheds, including space inside Warehouse No. 1.   In some ways, it was a blessing in disguise.  

by Geraldine Knatz, LACHS Board Member

Collecting tags and medals to continue this series of blogs on Los Angeles history, I was thrilled to find a brass tag with the words “Banning Co.” on it along with the words “time check” and the number 679.  I knew it had to be associated with the Banning family of Wilmington, California.  But I was stumped on what the tag was used for.  

by Geraldine Knatz, LACHS Board Member

In WWI soldiers were forbidden to carry personal information with them into battle, particularly photos or letters that might have addresses on them.  But an enterprising Los Angeles business figured out a way to satisfy a soldier’s longing to be near to his loved ones and not get in trouble with the military –using specially designed buttons made by the Liberty Manufacturing Company of Los Angeles.