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Post by anni on Feb 3, 2024 8:04:41 GMT -8
Historian Mike Lawler, long known for his wonderful books and his column in the Crescenta Valley Weekly, will give a presentation of some oddities in Tujunga's past at 1 p.m. Saturday, February 10, in the Bolton Hall Museum, the original town center.
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Post by Brian on Feb 12, 2024 0:00:31 GMT -8
A capacity audience enjoyed Mike Lawler's slide presentation of Weird Tujunga at Bolton Hall last Saturday afternoon. Montrose Peace Vigil was well represented thanks to Bruce, who spread the word about the event. He and I were joined by Anni, John, Marty and Justeen -- wearing a tin foil hat! -- along with John's sister Adrienne, a historian in her own right as an active preservationist around Southern California.
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Post by Brian on Feb 13, 2024 0:00:16 GMT -8
I've lived in Tujunga my entire life, 66 years, except for two years in Van Nuys when I was in college and five years at a dream rental house in Sunland. So I thought I knew a lot of Tujunga history, that is until Mike Lawler told stories I'd never heard and taught me a lot about things and people that I thought I knew well, like the composer-musician-poet who lived a philosopher hippie lifestyle decades before most longhairs appeared and raised a family in Big Tujunga Canyon, where his outdoor stove still resides. And Eden Ahbez wrote Nat King Cole's first hit in 1948, "Nature Boy." In 2021, KCRW published an article and posted a podcast about Ahbez on its website -- and embedded a trailer of a documentary about his life and work on the webpage: www.kcrw.com/news/shows/greater-la/nature-boy-composer-dining-coronavirus/eden-ahbez#:~:text=Listen%2027%20min- |
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Post by Sharon W on Feb 13, 2024 9:02:46 GMT -8
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