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African American architect Paul Revere Williams was on the LAX design team.
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SurveyLA heralds achievements of African Americans
February is Black History Month, a time to celebrate the achievements of African Americans and their contributions to our community. The physical history of African Americans in Los Angeles is chronicled in the places where people lived, worked, worshipped and fought for civil rights and made notable cultural achievements. Late last year, the City Planning
Department’s SurveyLA completed its African American context statement, a document designed to highlight the contributions and legacy of this significant group. Mid 19th century to 1980s My thanks to the team that worked so hard on this — the firm of Galvin Preservation Associates led by architectural historian Teresa Grimes with the contributions of histori-
an Alison Rose Jefferson. The document (available at preservation.lacity.org on the Los Angeles Citywide Historic Context Statement: Context African American History of Los Angeles) presents important themes in the history of the African American community in Los Angeles from the mid 19th century through the 1980s. It identifies designated his-
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toric resources associated with civil rights, religious and social institutions, the entertainment industry, architecture, and more. Just as impor- McAvoy on tantly, it Preservation identifies by resourcChristy es which McAvoy have not yet been designated, showing how rich the population of resources associated with this group actually is. The stories are fascinating, and the resource pool very diverse. Like any category of historic resources, identification is key. Once identified, the stories associated with these buildings can be understood by the general public and celebrated. Many of the resources in the context statement have layers of history attached. Take the stories of the Dunbar Hotel, Angelus Funeral Home, Golden State Mutual Insurance, Bethlehem Baptist Church, and the Ray Charles Record-
ing Studios, for instance. The Dunbar, a significant hub of Central Avenue, housed musicians and celebrities who could not find accommodations in the segregated city of the 1920s-1960s. Met spiritual needs The Angelus Funeral Home was founded by community businessmen to meet the needs of the community, as was Golden State Mutual Life Insurance. As for churches, Bethlehem Baptist (designed by R.M. Schindler), Second Baptist, McCarty Memorial, and First African Methodist Episcopal (FAME) all met the population’s spiritual needs while also playing significant roles in the civil rights movement. Ray Charles and other entertainers enriched the city’s major industry of music, radio, television and motion pictures. All of the above buildings have been designated as Historic Cultural Monu(Please turn to page 3)
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Take in the sites in Downtown Los Angeles with several walking tours offered this month by the Los Angeles Conservancy. The Broadway Historic Theatre and Commercial District Walking Tour is on Saturdays Jan. 27, Feb. 3, Feb. 10 and Feb. 17 at 10 a.m. Learn about Broadway’s evolution and revitalization on this 10-block tour. Cost is $15. Reservations required. Back for one month only, February, Modern Skyline tours are on Saturdays at 10 a.m. Other tours are Historic Downtown, Union Station and the Millennium Biltmore Hotel. Self-Guided Tours, ready-made to take anytime, include the “Charlie Chaplin ‘City Lights’ Film Location Tour” and “Exploring Chinatown: Past and Present.” Download the routes on the Conservancy website. For more information on these and other walking tours, visit laconservancy.org.
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Christy Johnson McAvoy, a former president of both the Los Angeles Conservancy
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PAUL REVERE WILLIAMS was among the architects on the design team to create the new Los Angeles International Airport terminals in the early 1960s. Shown is the Theme Building.
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(Continued from page 2) ments, along with over a dozen others. Residences of the community’s leaders, among them Ralph Bunche, Claude Hudson, Nat King Cole, Leo Branton, Gilbert Lindsay, Betty Hill, Paul R. Williams, Lou Rawls, Ruby Dandridge, and others are designated landmarks or contributors to the Hancock Park, Country Club Park, or West Adams area Historic Preservation Overlay Zones (HPOZ). Williams designed city The contributions of architects Paul Revere Williams, James Garrott, Robert Kennard and Norma Sklarek are catalogued. Williams played a
significant role in designing the city and hundreds of his buildings still exist, cared for by owner / stewards who prize his exquisite designs in a wide variety of styles. Look no further than the Hancock Park HPOZ where Bachman, Goodwin, Duque, Banning, Wilder and other residences stand. The churches continue to welcome congregations, the commercial buildings customers. Dunbar, the 28th St. YMCA, and, soon, the first Angelus Funeral Home, now provide affordable housing. The facilities are used, and the stories continue to be written. It is an important legacy in a city rich in diverse traditions.
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‘Walter Hopps Hopps Hopps’ and the making of L.A.’s contemporary art scene
Three point six miles separate Larchmont Boulevard and 736 La Cienega Blvd. My computer computes that this trip along Melrose Ave. would take, I suppose in some alternate universe, 15 minutes. In 1957, when the artist Ed Kienholz found “a big barnlike artist’s studio with high ceilings and whitewashed walls, in the back half of a one-story building” at the La Cienega address, the ride might have taken — who knows? But it was here that the young and curious curator Walter Hopps (1932-2005) and Ed Kienholz (1927-1994) opened Ferus Gallery, the
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now-famous incubator of the L.A. art that eventually made its way around the world. The two young men had signed a contract to work together — at Pink’s. They wrote the contract on the stiff paper that held their hot dogs. “We both signed it,” says Hopps, “and Ed kept it.”
PINK’S HOT DOGS was the setting where a legendary contract by Walter Hopps and Ed Kienholz was signed on paper that held their hot dogs.
“The Dream Colony: A Life in Art” (Bloomsbury, 2017) by Hopps and edited by Deborah Treisman and Anne Doran, is a memoir of Hopps’s brilliant, charismatic, and complicated life as a curator that ranged from Ferus and the Pasadena Art Museum (where he famously shepherded a 1963 Marcel Duchamp retrospective into being) to the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Menil Collection in Houston. (“Walter Hopps Hopps Hopps” is the 1959 Kienholz sculpture featured on the cover of the book.) Anne Doran, an artist and writer, recorded Hopps recalling his life and work in more than 100 hours of interviews. The results were to have been edited with Hopps, but he died just before his 73rd birthday, in 2005. The result, however, is catnip for devotees of contemporary art and especially the contemporary art born in L.A. in the late 1950s and 1960s. Hopps was a superb storyteller, and his voice on the page is a great seduction. I read some sections twice. Delicious stories abound of the collector Edwin Janss, the artists Wallace Berman, Kienholz, John Altoon, Craig Kauffman, Ed
MEMOIR is of Hopps’s life as a curator that ranged from Ferus Gallery and the Pasadena Art Museum to the Corcoran and Menil Collection.
Moses, Duchamp, Frank Stella, Andy Warhol, Barnett Newman (an astounding person in this telling), Joseph Cornell, Robert Rauschenberg — and the gallerist Irving Blum, who replaced Kienholz as partner in Ferus, and, incidentally, later married Hopps’s first wife, a fact Hopps does not mention here. Hopps does not spare himself in these recollections. A famously wild as well as brilliant man, he was a devotee of speed and alcohol and perhaps other substances I may have
forgotten. He would disappear from his jobs for days at a time, and then reappear and work day and night to hang a show, and expect others to do so, too. Unpredictable, unreliable, he has been called “one of the past century’s most eagleeyed and accomplished curators” by Los Angeles writer and curator Michael Duncan. Is Hopps a reliable narrator on these pages? I can’t begin to judge. Artist Ed Ruscha, foremost among the artists who brought Los Angeles to the international stage, writes an illuminating introduction to this book. But elsewhere, he says in a recent interview on a Getty Arts & Ideas podcast, when he met Hopps in 1960 or 1961, he could immediately see that Hopps had “some kind of communication with the universe.” Hopps could make a “spectator sport of talking,” Ruscha says; “he had an immense memory.” When he was preparing himself to talk, he would take a deep breath before he began to answer a question. “Then he would begin to pace — he sort of glided across the floor,” according to Ruscha. “It gave me the idea that he could walk on water.”
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‘Love, Scandal and Tea’ are on the menu at Fremont Place
Historian Mark Wanamaker and the Windsor Square-Hancock Park Historical Society are presenting “Love, Scandal, and… Tea” Sun., Feb. 11 from 2 to 5 p.m. The event will be held in the Beaux Arts Grand Ballroom, a detached pavilion at silent movie star Mary Pickford’s onetime home at 56 Fremont Pl. Founded in 1911, the gated enclave Fremont Place is one of the city’s original exclusive communities. “Wanamaker, expert on all things Hollywood, will talk about stars, scandals and real estate, all in the context of the exploding movie industry of the early 1900s,” said WSHPHS spokesperson Myrna Gintel.
TEA AND SCANDAL will be served in the detached Beaux Arts Grand Ballroom pavilion at 56 Fremont Place.
Spicy stories will be told about Pickford and her marriage to Douglas Fairbanks, and Pickfair — their Beverly Hills mansion, where they
hosted the likes of Albert Einstein, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Amelia Earhart. Known in her prime as “America’s Sweetheart,” Pick-
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ford was co-founder of both the Pickford-Fairbanks Studio (along with her husband Douglas Fairbanks) and, later, the United Artists film studio (with Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin and D.W. Griffith). Pickford was one of the original founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that presents the yearly Oscar awards ceremony. Wanamaker will talk about other Hollywood stars and residents and their lifestyles in the early 20th century, much of which can be found at fremontplace.blogspot.com/. Mary Miles Minter and
her mother moved into the home after Pickford. The original owner was Miss Helen Mathewson. “The true trailblazing divain-residence was the woman who built it,” according to the notes regarding 56 Fremont Pl. “In terms of her personality, the indefatigable Miss Helen Mathewson fell, by all accounts, somewhere between firebrand and huge pain in the ass, though one with great purpose.” Seating for the Feb. 11 event is limited to 80 and the Chronicle learned before press time that the event has sold out.
Vintage to contemporary Classic Photographs at West Coast Fair Michael Dawson, of Michael Dawson Gallery — and formerly longtime fixture on Larchmont at his family’s bookshop before its closing — is co-founder of Classic Photographs Los Angeles 2018. The free, three-day West Coast Fair is Fri., Feb. 2 to Sun., Feb. 4 at Bergamot Station, Building G, 2525 Michigan Ave., Santa Monica. Vintage, modern and contemporary photography will be on display. The exhibit features 30 dealers from the U.S., Canada and Japan. The annual event began in 2010 with an intimate photography show when the Michael Dawson Gallery was still at 535 N. Larchmont Blvd. Michael’s grandfather Ernest Dawson started Dawson’s Book Shop in downtown Los Angeles in 1905. The shop settled on Larchmont Blvd. in
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1968. When it closed in 2010 it was the oldest continuously operating bookstore in the city. Michael, a photographer, took over the family business in 1995 and opened a gallery in the 4,000-square-foot shop that featured vintage prints by Ansel Adams and Edward Weston among others. (The Dawson family still owns the California moderne-style glass-and-brick building on Larchmont.) Visit classicphotographsla.com.
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Scottish Rite leader visits Marciano Art Foundation
R. Stephen Doan remains one of the most active Masons in California, if not the nation. A R. Stephen Doan Southern California lawyer, Doan has been active in the movement since he was 14. A holder of the 33rd degree in the Scottish Rite, one of Doan’s many past leadership roles included overseeing the Scottish Rite Cathedral on Wilshire Blvd. in Windsor Square. Doan and Larchmont Chronicle publisher and friend, John H. Welborne, toured the re-purposed building in January, and Doan — (Please turn to page 13)
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THE ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED Scottish Rite of Freemasonry is more commonly known as The Scottish Rite. Recently visiting the new Marciano Art Foundation in the former Scottish Rite Cathedral in Windsor Square was R. Stephen Doan, who noted that the Marciano collection’s “Untitled #549-E” by Cindy Sherman, hanging in the building’s lobby, actually shows the artist with an Oddfellows, not Masonic, emblem on her bodice.
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Irish eyes crying with closing of historic pub, Tom Bergin’s
By Rachel Olivier Irish hearts (biological and adopted) shattered throughout Miracle Mile and beyond when news broke Jan. 16 that Tom Bergin’s Public House was closing its doors the following week. At 5:25 p.m. that day, when I arrived, regulars were filtering in, but within an hour, there was a steady stream of customers coming by the restaurant and bar to have an Irish coffee or raise a pint. As I sat at my table sipping my Guinness and having a Scotch egg, I overheard several conversations in the packed dining area focusing on the landmark bar’s news. Later that evening, Larchmont Chronicle publisher John Welborne came in to partake of a pint of Guinness. It was 9 p.m. before a table was available, and then he was informed the kitchen was closed. “We ran out of food,” he was told. So what happened? The many fans of the neighborhood local wanted to know why the pub was closing now, after being “saved” last time it closed in 2013. Derek Schreck, co-owner who runs the pub with his management team of Jason Dechert and Joe Tower, pointed to a number of factors, including the closing of Fairfax Avenue many weekends in a row when Metro did subway construction last year. While he welcomes the new subway, Schreck said that weekends were the pub’s prime time for business; the Metro work really cut into their revenue. In the meantime, patrons, including regulars, found other places to go. And because the pub was not on Wilshire Boulevard, Schreck noted, Tom Bergin’s did not qualify to receive hardship help from Metro, as was offered to merchants situated along Wilshire. Despite the initial closing announcement, I learned that night that the bar will continue with limited hours, open only Thursdays through Saturdays, 5 p.m. to midnight, until at least St. Patrick’s Day, March 17.
RAISE a toast and have a pint of Guinness at Tom Bergin’s while you can.
“Shock to the system” “It’s a shock to the Los Angeles system for this place to close,” Schreck said, as well as being a hardship for all his employees. But closing the kitchen now, and having the bar remain open limited hours through St. Patrick’s Day, will allow for patrons to come by and say farewell, and also allow him to pay severance to his employees and help them find work at other venues. “These are the best employees to have and the best team I could have asked for,” said Schreck. He and his management team run the bar themselves now. In an interview with the “Los Angeles Times,” Schreck said they would “push through as long as we can.” And they still plan to have a big party on St. Patrick’s Day. One couple, he said, who are in their 90s, met at the bar and celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary there. Schreck says that is just one of the many stories he has heard about people who met, dated and brought families to Bergins; some of them even have shamrocks up. What about the shamrocks? There are reportedly 6,000 shamrocks on the ceiling and walls of Tom Bergin’s. According to Schreck, at first the shamrocks were put up for Bergin’s friends and regulars. The older shamrocks are in the dining area, and many of them only have last names (albeit familiar neighborhood names), assuming, possibly, that everyone knew who they were.
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Later, there was a punch card system — if someone came through so many times, he or she got a shamrock put up with his or her name on it. Over the years, it has become a rite of passage. If everyone who works at or frequents the pub knows your name, then, so the theory goes, you deserve to have your name on a shamrock plastered to the ceiling. Schreck, who was a bar regular before buying Bergin’s, has his own shamrock up. Not surprisingly, Tom Bergin’s served as the inspiration for the TV show “Cheers,” where “everyone knows your name.” History Established in 1935, the story goes that Tom Bergin, a lawyer, drove to a Tudor building at the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue, unlocked the door and tacked a liquor license to the wall. So began Tom Bergin’s Old Horseshoe Tavern & Thoroughbred Club (named for the horseshoe-shaped bar). And the license is now reportedly the second oldest in Los Angeles County. Incidentally, it is also known as the “House of Irish Coffee,” and is famous for that beverage. The neon sign has been up since the 1950s. The historic tavern, which moved down the street in 1949, has been a regular haunt for many Angelenos, including celebrities Bing Crosby, Pat O’Brien, John Wayne, Kiefer Sutherland and Julia Roberts.
The original 1951 Los Angeles Rams World Championship banner was given to Bergin by Dan Reeves as a thank-you for hosting the team’s championship dinner. After 37 years, Tom Bergin sold the tavern to regulars Mike Mandekic and T.K. Vodrey. Chef Brandon Boudet and restaurateur Warner Ebbink were the next owners, and they shut the place down
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Contemporary Clay opens, Valentine’s print workshop at CAFAM CRAFT AND FOLK ART MUSEUM—“Melting Point: Movements in Contemporary Clay” opening reception is Sat., Jan. 27, 6 to 9 p.m. The group show features 22 artists. $12 entry fee; free for members. Ends May 6. • Melting Point artist Wayne Perry will be at the pottery wheel Sundays Jan. 28 and Feb. 4 and Wed., Feb. 7, 1 to 4 p.m. • Make baskets in a “Fiber Coiling Workshop” with Mimi Haddon Thurs., Feb. 1 from 7 to 9 p.m. • “Ruskin and the Re-Framing of Art: Lecture and Conversation Featuring Timothy Holton and Gabriel Meyer” is Sun., Feb. 4 at 2 p.m. Free. In collaboration with the Ruskin Art Club, formerly at 800 S. Plymouth. Learn about the philosophy and history of John Ruskin and William Morris, inspiration behind the early 20th-century Arts and Crafts movement. RSVP. • “Hammering Plants & Printmaking” workshop is in time for Valentine’s Day Sun., Feb. 11 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. 5814 Wilshire Blvd., 323937-4230; cafam.org; free on Sundays. KOREAN CULTURAL CENTER—“An Evening of Puppet Shows with One Grain of Sand Puppet Theater” is Fri., Jan.
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Visit museums free RUSKIN ART CLUB was founded in 1888 and was housed on the corner of Eighth Street and Plymouth Boulevard from 1926 to a few years ago. Above are club namesake John Ruskin (left) and William Morris.
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Year of the Dog with arts and crafts Feb. 18. All events are Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. 6505 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 100; 323-761-8984; zimmermuseum.org. JAPAN FOUNDATION— Join artist Nobuo Anzai in “Still Life Coffee Painting Workshop,” Tues., Jan. 30 from 7 to 9 p.m. RSVP. • Have a lunchtime sound bath with the Tibetan singing bowl and its Japanese counterpart at “Meditation with Japanese Singing Lin Bowl” Wed., Jan. 31 at 12:30 and 1 p.m. Free. • “Migrating Dreamscapes: Nobuo Anzai,” ends Feb. 6. Free. Works from the painter's series: “Brazil,” “Columbia” and “Madrid.” Japanema: films screen the second and fourth Wednesday of every month at 7 p.m. Free. 5700 Wilshire Blvd., 323761-7510; jflalc.org. LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART—“Painted
in Mexico, 1700-1790: Pinxit Mexici” ends March 18. • “Found in Translation: Design in California and Mexico, 1915-1985,” ends April 1. • “Creatures of the Earth, Sea, and Sky: Painting the Panamanian Cosmos” ends April 15. 5905 Wilshire Blvd., 323857-6000; lacma.org. LOS ANGELES MUSEUM OF THE HOLO CAUST— “Filming the Camps: From Hollywood to Nuremberg — John Ford, Samuel Fuller, Geroge Stevens,” on exhibit. Docent-led tours are Sundays at 2 p.m., followed by a Holocaust survivor speaker at 3 p.m. Pan Pacific Park, 100 S. Grove Dr., 323-651-3704; lamoth.org. Always free. LA BREA TAR PITS & MUSEUM—“Titans of the Ice Age: The La Brea Story in 3D" screens daily. Encounters with a (life-size puppet) sabertoothed cat are featured Fri-
SoCal Museums Free-For-All Day is Sun., Jan. 28. Among the 30 participating museums are Craft and Folk Art Museum, La Brea Tarpits and Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust and Zimmer Children’s Musuem. Visit socalmuseums.org.
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(Continued from page 10) the former grand master of the Grand Lodge of California and venerable master of the Los Angeles Lodge of Perfection — offered his compliments for the re-working of the building by the Marciano Art Foundation and its designers, wHY Architecture. The historic building, fourstories high, maintains its exterior of Italian travertine marble, embellished with mosaics and gold lettering and adorned with eight, 15-foot statues. The interior is now a showplace for Maurice and Paul Marciano’s collection of contemporary art. To visit the new museum, see marcianoartfoundation.org.
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Choosing a card and suit to lead when defending No Trump
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The auction: You LHO Pard RHO 1C P 1D P 1N P P Dbl P 2H P 2N P P P Question: What do you lead? Your partner has not supported your suit, Clubs; she bid diamonds. But she did not double the 2N contract, indicating she did not want a dia-
mond lead. But with this hand it does not matter what your partner does. Even if partner doubles for a diamond lead, you have only one lead. This brings up the first basic rule in defending no trump. All the other rules are subservient to this. No matter what partner has done, if you have a better lead in your own hand than what partner suggests, lead it.
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Unfortunately, East partner thought she should lead her partner’s suit, so she led the QD. Her lead had the deleterious consequence of her partner returning a diamond when she got the lead since she had no idea of her Club holding. She could have four little clubs with her points elsewhere. Then it's too late for the Clubs because Declarer's three diamonds set up. It doesn't matter what you hold here in determining what to lead. If the club queen is led, Declarer must take the King. When leader’s partner finally gets the lead with one of her Aces, she then knows to shoot back a Club and Declarer is history. You get four club tricks and two aces, minimum, for down one. Plus, her KT of spades is well situated for another trick for down 2. Here are the rules for leading against no trump. The card you should lead is in bold face:
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leads, if you have an honor, you should play it on her lead, for the same reason. It sets up the rest of her hand and allows her to continue the suit if Declarer ducks. Another thing to remember about these leads is that if partner leads the Queen and you have the Jack, you know what she's got. Similarly, if she leads the King and you have the Queen, you know that she should be holding AKJx. In both cases, you can freely play your honor without concern that you're giving up a trick. If, however, partner leads the Ace and you have the Queen, don't drop it because she should be denying AKJ. Grand Slam is the nom de plume for an author of a bestselling book on bridge, an ACBL accredited director and a Silver Life Master.
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