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Los Feliz - An Illustrated Early History
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"Los Feliz - An Illustrated Early History"

Some of the more than 150 graphics in the book.

The Los Angeles Improvement Association is very proud of its latest book offering, “Los Feliz: An Illustrated Early History” by Donald Seligman. This book attempts to supplement our previous books by concentrating on the earlier history of Los Feliz, from prehistory to 1940, illustrated by an expanded collection of historic photographs and other graphic material. It is the first book to address the early history of the Los Feliz district of Los Angeles which predates even the city’s own founding in 1781.

Los Feliz was home to a major Native Ameri­can settlement before Jose Vicente Feliz brought his family to the Los Angeles basin in the first expedition to bring secular settlers to California in 1776.  Over the next 20 years, Feliz had the major responsibility for establishing the new pueblo of Los Angeles and was rewarded for his efforts as the governor’s Comisionado with the Rancho Los Feliz granted to him by Spanish King Carlos III around 1800. 


Author Don Seligman
The story of the Rancho which eventually became the Los Feliz and Griffith Park neighborhoods spans over 200 years and it is filled with fascinating personalities like the colorful early Los Angeles politician Antonio Coronel, the larger-than-life entrepreneur and philanthropist Griffith J. Griffith, and movie moguls Cecil B. DeMille, D. W. Griffith, and Walt Disney. The book begins with the area’s prehistory and ends in 1940.

Author Donald Seligman is a local amateur historian, as well as a LFIA Boardmember, whose family first arrived in Los Angeles more than 100 years ago. This hardbound all-color text is embellished by more than 150 historic drawings, maps and photographs.  It is is a treasure for anyone who has an interest in early Los Angeles history.

You can get your copy for $25.00 plus tax & shipping directly from the LFIA by clicking here.

Calendar
Architecture & Beyond: Patricia L. Smith/ Streetscapes
Thursday, March 18th, 2010 at 6:45pm, Los Feliz Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library at 1874 Hillhurst Ave. on the corner of Franklin Ave.

Landscape architect Patricia L. Smith will discuss urban design and streetscape improvements. Smith’s most recent projects include the Vermont Triangle Boulevard Garden, the Downtown South Pasadena Streetscape Improvements, and the Archive Landscape, Academy of Motion Pictures. She has prepared more than twenty landscape plans for elementary, middle and high schools with an emphasis on replacing asphalt with play fields and strategic tree plantings.

The library is located at 1874 Hillhurst Ave. on the corner of Franklin Ave. For more information, please call the library at 323-913-4710 during regular business hours.

The program is sponsored by the Friends of the Los Feliz Library, merchants of the Los Feliz Village BID and Skylight Books. Skylight Books will provide related architecture books for purchase.

Beautification Committee Clean up

Spring Clean up Los Feliz Saturday, March 20 9am-noon
Meet at 2630 N. Vermont. Luncheon to follow.

Help keep Los Feliz beautiful and spend a couple of hours picking up trash and painting out graffiti. Sign up for the next LFIA Clean Up by sending an email to beautification@lfia.org. Luncheon to follow.
Friends of the Los Feliz Library - Used Book Sale
4th Saturday of each month
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Los Feliz Library
1874 Hillhurst Av.

Greater Griffith Park Neighborhood Council (GGPNC)
Third Tuesday of every month at 7pm at the Los Feliz Community Police Center
1965 Hillhurst, Los Angeles CA 90027