Posts in Visionaries
The Palos Verdes Peninsula is Starting to Bloom! By Photographer Dianne Gowder

Have you noticed all the wonderful colors springing up around the Peninsula lately? The brilliant greens of new growth on the trees to pinks of the blossoms on the trees and the vibrant splashes of color as nature paints our world. Have you noticed all the wonderful colors springing up around the Peninsula lately? The brilliant greens of new growth on the trees to pinks of the blossoms on the trees and the vibrant splashes of color as nature paints our world.

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Valentine’s Day on Land and Sea by Marifrances Trivelli, Director, Los Angeles Maritime Museum

Valentine’s Day is here! And while the day is traditionally associated with flowers, chocolate, and perhaps a romantic evening, many sailors who were separated from their loved ones had to be a bit more creative. Here are just a few examples from the collection of the Los Angeles Maritime Museum. To view more of the historic photograph collection, be sure to visit www.lamaritimemuseum.org select “research” and then “Online Digital Collections”. The museum welcomes donations of photograph and artifacts that document the history of the Port of Los Angeles. Please contact the museum at info@lamaritimemuseum.org or call 310-548-7618 if you have items to donate.

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Valentine’s Day Is For Lovers Author & Hollywood Historian Mary Mallory

Before the invention of television and the internet, publicity stills sold movies to filmgoing audiences during the heyday of classic movies from the 1920 through the 1950s. Film studios produced and distributed millions of free publicity images to magazines and newspapers to build awareness of upcoming movies or to promote promising or popular performers.

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Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy Presents a Virtual Event with South Bay Filmmakers of Award-Winning Documentary

PALOS VERDES PENINSULA–The Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy will present a special virtual event: Chesley Bonestell ~ A Brush with the FutureAdmission to the event includes a DVD and Zoom Q&A Discussion with award winning South Bay Filmmakers Douglass M. Stewart, Jr. and Timothy Branning Sunday, January 29, 2023, 4:00 – 5:00pm

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The History of the Goose and the Crane By Author Geraldine Knatz, Ph.D.

No, this isn’t a post about two big birds. The Goose in this story is the largest wooden plane ever built officially known as the Hughes H-4 Hercules, but nicknamed the “Spruce Goose.” In 1943, the U. S. government commissioned Hughes Aircraft Company to build a large flying boat to move soldiers during the War. Because steel was in short supply, Hughes built the plane mostly out of birch (with some Spruce).

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