Joe Ackerman spent over 60 years photographing and getting autographs from over 5,000 stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood and beyond. Additionally, he took over 400 candid photos of the iconic stars and was able to come back and have them autograph the photos. Ackerman did all of this while running 3 successful businesses and raising a family of five children.
Read MoreOctober has an element of fantasy, enchantment, ghosts and superstition with All Hallows at the Eve end of the month. Many films to entertain on a haunted evening most are more funny than scary for your viewing consideration.
Read MoreThings do change in a heartbeat, don’t they? When I last interviewed Daniela Saxa-Kaneko she was serving as the interim executive director of the Palos Verdes Art Center. Not long after that the “interim” was dropped—and she was selected to head up the place, a venerable institution which has been serving the Peninsula for 90 years.
Read MoreJill Sanders is a local fine art landscape photographer born and raised here in Palos Verdes, California. Her images stir a sense of stillness and peace upon the viewer as she blends her painterly effects of light and shadow mixed with long exposure techniques.
Read MoreIf you live in San Pedro, as I do, you have probably discovered Averill Park with it’s pretty waterfall, meandering stream and ever fascinating ( to me anyway) duckpond. In spring you’ll see ducklings and all year round there are Mallards, Muscovy ducks,wood duck and visiting herons. The Muscovy ducks think they own the place and are often seen patrolling the perimeter of the pond.
Read MoreImagine, after taking one single breath of air and suddenly you are submerged under water into a poorly lit, murky, eerie world where you are immediately no longer at the top of the food chain, and the animal at the top of the food chain could be stalking you at any moment. That is a world not many of us would aim to immerse ourselves in. Imagine that very animal that is at the top of the food chain laying just inches in front of your face.
Read MoreCalifornia’s mild climate, consistently sunny days and open spaces were quite an incentive for film studios to relocate from their New York locations to Southern California. Once in California, filmmakers frequently used Southern California and the western states as backdrops for their films about the adventures of America’s Western Expansion.
Read MoreAs you power up your shrinking machine it begins to spark and rattle. A quick glance at the settings reads a shrink ratio of 1 to 160. You take aim at a local locomotive resting in the port of Los Angeles, hit the switch and blast the locomotive with all your machine’s might! It works as you exclaim with joy,
Read MoreOne of the most important aspects of goat herding for cost effective fire prevention is the protection from superlative, good-natured dogs who live with the goats night and day
Read MorePalos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy Announces a “Go Wild for the Peninsula” Campaign as The City of Rancho Palos Verdes and the Conservancy Announce the Creation of a New 96-Acre Wildlife Corridor.
Read MoreLet’s revisit “School days, school days, good old golden rule days, readin’ and writin’ and ‘rithmatic, taught to the tune of a hickry stick…” as the song heralds more innocent times in America and the world.
Read MoreThe smiling face of Roscoe Arbuckle, once a starring comedian at Mack Sennett’s legendary Keystone studio and then a star in his own right, isn’t as familiar as it used to be. All too often he’s associated with the infamous 1921 Labor Day scandal, when actress Virginia Rappe fell ill at a party he hosted and died several days later.
Read MoreTall and straight with head full of hair, Don Crocker, a 50 -year resident of Rolling Hills where he was mayor twice, and a long-time member of the City Council and the Community Association, belies his status as an octogenarian.
Read MoreMaintaining the native environment within its established reserves across the Palos Verdes Peninsula is the one of the primary objectives of the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy (PVPLC).
Read MoreIn Los Angeles County, thousands of people will participate in Heal the Bay's 33rd annual Coastal Cleanup Day by picking up trash from nearby beaches. On September 17, thousands of people in Los Angeles County will participate in Coastal Cleanup Day, the "biggest garbage collecting effort ever," organized by Heal the Bay. PALOS VERDES, CA
Read MoreMaria de los Dolores Asunsolo y Lopez Negrete (1904-1983) was known professionally as Dolores del Rio. Her career spanned more than 50 years and she became very popular in both the Anglo and Latin world. Having a notable career in English speaking countries, Dolores was also one of the most important female figures in the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.
Read MoreI wanted to learn more about the life and accomplishments of George Freeth. The book began as a novel based on Freeth’s life. I gave up after a hundred pages or so because I was clinging too closely to the few facts that I knew about him—that’s where the writing kept taking me. So I decided that I had to write his biography before I could write a novel about him.
Read More
