 1. Suzanne Roberts, Marjorie Monteleone, Vincent Monteleone, Eileen Roberts, and Leona Monteleone from Berendo Street visited the old Los Angeles Zoo in 1930. The snooty camel ignored the fact that he was merely a backdrop for the boisterous kids. (Courtesy Marjorie Monteleone Romer) |
 2. Marjorie Monteleone played on this contraption called a hootenanny made from dismantled roller skates attached to long planks. It was perfect for careening dangerously down Berendo Street even though traffic was practically non existent in 1933. It looks like every kid in the 1900 block of Berendo managed to climb aboard. (Courtesy Marjorie Monteleone Romer) |
 3. The Los Feliz Improvement Association and the Parent-Teacher Association petitioned the school board for a high school to serve students in our neighborhood. John Marshall High School opened on January 26, 1931. Its classic Gothic architecture by George M. Lindsey made it a famous local landmark. The east wing along St. George Street had not yet been built. In 1937 there were very few homes in the hills. c. 1937. (Courtesy John Marshall High School Alumni Association) |
 4. Harry Ball, Irene Libby, Lorin Benke, (back) John Stevenson, and Jack Fuller were the officers of the Class of ‘33. They represented the first class to graduate from John Marshall High School. They are seen here wearing their yellow class sweaters as they gathered on the steps of Marshall. (Courtesy John H. Stevenson) |
 5. The John Marshall High School Class of 1933 held its graduation ceremony at the brand new Greek Theatre in Griffith Park, a tradition that continues today. (Courtesy Florence Steere Field) |
 6. The Breakfast Club on Los Feliz Boulevard was the place to see and be seen in Los Angeles in the 1930s. It was so popular that their meetings were broadcast on the radio. The Rose Queen and her court were upstaged by popular child star Jackie Coogan. See if you can spot fellow actors Leo Carillo, Johnny Weismuller, and Tom Mix. (Hint: Tom Mix is wearing a white hat.) Today the Breakfast Club still meets at Friendship Auditorium on Riverside Drive. (Courtesy the Breakfast Club) |
 7. Here the Breakfast Club honors Walt Disney. Although Mickey Mouse was a ham, they didn’t serve him for breakfast! c. 1935 (Courtesy the Breakfast Club) |
 8. The young ladies and young men of first graduating class of Our Mother of Good Counsel dressed in their Sunday best for their graduation in 1938. (Courtesy Cheryl Ortega) |
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