BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//192.124.249.56//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.26.9// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-FROM-URL:https://windsorsquarehancockpark.com X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 RDATE:20241103T020000 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 RDATE:20250309T020000 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-670@windsorsquarehancockpark.com DTSTAMP:20240328T210250Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Past Event CONTACT: DESCRIPTION:Please join us on April 21\, 2021\, 7pm.\nPaul Revere Williams’ s inspirational story has fascinated historians for the simple fact that h is journey was so improbable. The orphan son of an African American fruit- and-vegetable merchant\, he was repeatedly told he had no chance of ever r ealizing his childhood dream of becoming an architect. And yet\, he ignore d the naysayers to reach the pinnacle of his chosen profession\, while ove rcoming widespread discrimination throughout early- to mid-twentieth centu ry America. The odds against him succeeding were enormous.\n$60 Hardcover copy of the book from Angel City Press\n*$10 Presentation only – Members (Pay Below with small Paypal fee)\n*$15 Presentation only – Non Members ( Pay Below with small Paypal fee)\n\n*Once you purchase your ticket you wil l be taken to a page with your zoom link to the event . That is your invit e. Yay! Please bookmark that page\, print that page or save that link as w e will not be emailing out the zoom link.\n\nWindsor Square Hancock Park H istorical Society\nAnd\nAngel City Press\nPresent\nMaster Architects of So uthern California 1920-1940: Paul R. Williams\nby Marc Appleton\, Stephen Gee\, and Bret Parsons\nApril 21\, 2021\, 7pm\n\n\n\nMaster Architects of Southern California 1920-1940\, a new twelve-volume series by Marc Applet on and Bret Parsons showcases the work of the Golden Era’s most important residential architects as originally featured in the earliest issues of Th e Architectural Digest. Featuring some of the earliest known photographs o f the work of legendary architects\, the series is devoted to the era when oil titans\, film industry moguls\, bankers\, and successful entrepreneur s who were new to the region hired the most accomplished and talented arch itects they could find. DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210421T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210421T200000 LOCATION:Virtual Event SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Master Architects of Southern California 1920-1940: Paul R. William s URL:https://windsorsquarehancockpark.com/event/master-architects-of-souther n-california-1920-1940-paul-r-williams/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-WP-IMAGES-URL:thumbnail\;https://windsorsquarehancockpark.com/wp-content/ uploads/2020/12/Screenshot_2020-12-15-Paul-R-Williams-150x150.jpg\;150\;15 0\;1\,medium\;https://windsorsquarehancockpark.com/wp-content/uploads/2020 /12/Screenshot_2020-12-15-Paul-R-Williams-215x300.jpg\;215\;300\;1\,large\ ;https://windsorsquarehancockpark.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Screensho t_2020-12-15-Paul-R-Williams-734x1024.jpg\;734\;1024\;1\,full\;https://win dsorsquarehancockpark.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Screenshot_2020-12-15 -Paul-R-Williams.jpg\;860\;1200\; X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n
\\nPlease join us on Ap
ril 21\, 2021\, 7pm.
\nPaul Revere Williams’s inspirational
story has fascinated historians for the simple fact that his journey was s
o improbable. The orphan son of an African American fruit-and-vegetable me
rchant\, he was repeatedly told he had no chance of ever realizing his chi
ldhood dream of becoming an architect. And yet\, he ignored the naysayers
to reach the pinnacle of his chosen profession\, while overcoming widespre
ad discrimination throughout early- to mid-twentieth century America. The
odds against him succeeding were enormous.
$60 Hardcover copy of the book from Angel City Press
\n*$10 Presentation only – Members (Pay Belo
w with small Paypal fee)
\n*$15 Presentation only – Non Members (Pay
Below with small Paypal fee)
\n*O
nce you purchase your ticket you will be taken to a page with your zoom li
nk to the event . That is your invite. Yay! Please bookmark that p
age\, print that page or save that link as we will not be emailing out the
zoom link.
And
\nMaster Architects of Southern California 1920 -1940\, a new twelve-volume series by Marc Appleton and Bret Parsons showcases the work of the Golden Era’s most important residential architects as originally featured in the earliest issues of The Architectural Digest. Featuring some of the earliest known photog raphs of the work of legendary architects\, the series is devoted to the e ra when oil titans\, film industry moguls\, bankers\, and successful entre preneurs who were new to the region hired the most accomplished and talent ed architects they could find.
\n \n X-TAGS;LANGUAGE=en-US:2021\,April 21\,Architechture\,Bret Parsons\,Hancock Park\,Historical Society\,Los Angeles\,Marc Appleton\,Paul R. Williams\,St ephen Gee\,The Architectural Digest\,Virtual Event\,Windsor Square END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ai1ec-979@windsorsquarehancockpark.com DTSTAMP:20240328T210250Z CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Past Event CONTACT: DESCRIPTION:November 10th at 7:00pm. In Saving Radio City Music Hall\, publ ished by TurningPointPress\, Rosemary Novellino-Mearns reveals how Radio C ity Music Hall\, Art Deco masterpiece and New York City’s premiere tourist attraction for generations\, was saved from demolition. After years of st ruggling with intense\, sometimes painful memories\, “Rosie” tells the hon est\, fact-filled\, emotionally charged\, and often humorous story of how she organized the gargantuan effort to save Radio City Music Hall in the S pring of 1978. Against all odds\, and in only four months\, she succeeded. Readers will be shocked by the “no good deed goes unpunished” climax of t he story in which Rosie reveals her reward for spearheading the movement t o save “The Showplace of the Nation.”\n*$10 Presentation only – Members ( Pay Below with small Paypal fee)\n*$15 Presentation only – Non Members (P ay Below with small Paypal fee)\nBook available through Amazon*After your purchase you will be emailed the special presentation link by 6pm the day before the presentation and by 12pm on the day of the presentation.\n\nWin dsor Square Hancock Park Historical Society\nPresents\nSaving Radio City M usic Hall – A Dancer’s True Story\nby Rosemary Novellino-Mearns\nNovember 10th at 7:00pm\n\n\n\nA modest but determined young dancer from Glen Rock\ , New Jersey\, Rosemary Novellino joined the Radio City Music Hall Ballet Company\, the classical dance counterpart to the world-famous Rockettes\, in 1966. After a shaky beginning\, she danced with the group for twelve ye ars\, eventually becoming its Dance Captain and Assistant to the legendary choreographer Peter Gennaro. In the mid-1970s\, questionable behind-the-s cenes changes in Music Hall management alarmed hundreds of employees\, but no one was prepared for the official announcement in early 1978\, that Ra dio City Music Hall was slated to close that April and be demolished.\nDra wing upon formerly untapped inner strengths\, Rosemary refused to let this happen. She became President of “The Showpeople’s Committee to Save Radio City Music Hall” and motivated fellow workers\, friends\, thousands of Ra dio City fans around the world\, New York and national media\, cultural le aders and politicians to support the cause. As a result of these efforts\, the Art Deco palace was declared a National Historic Landmark. saving not only the building but the jobs and livelihoods of thousands of Music Hall employees on stage and behind the scenes who have entertained millions to this day. This “heartfelt and very personal account of that effort\,” say s Booklist\, “provides a backstage glimpse of the drama that ensued and fe atures a cast of characters that includes performers\, politicians\, the m edia\, and some very heavy hitters in the world of New York real estate th at will delight readers interested in the performing arts and their histor y in the U.S.” DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211110T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211110T200000 LOCATION:Virtual Event SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Saving Radio City Music Hall – A Dancer’s True Story URL:https://windsorsquarehancockpark.com/event/saving-radio-city-music-hall -a-dancers-true-story/ X-COST-TYPE:free X-WP-IMAGES-URL:thumbnail\;https://windsorsquarehancockpark.com/wp-content/ uploads/2021/01/61clTPceUEL-150x150.jpg\;150\;150\;1\,medium\;https://wind sorsquarehancockpark.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/61clTPceUEL-240x300.jp g\;240\;300\;1\,large\;https://windsorsquarehancockpark.com/wp-content/upl oads/2021/01/61clTPceUEL-819x1024.jpg\;819\;1024\;1\,full\;https://windsor squarehancockpark.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/61clTPceUEL.jpg\;1088\;13 60\; X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\\n\\n\\nNovember 10th at 7:00pm. In Saving Radio City Music Ha ll\, published by TurningPointPress\, Rosemary Novellino-Mearns reveals ho w Radio City Music Hall\, Art Deco masterpiece and New York City’s premier e tourist attraction for generations\, was saved from demolition. After ye ars of struggling with intense\, sometimes painful memories\, “Rosie” tell s the honest\, fact-filled\, emotionally charged\, and often humorous stor y of how she organized the gargantuan effort to save Radio City Music Hall in the Spring of 1978. Against all odds\, and in only four months\, she s ucceeded. Readers will be shocked by the “no good deed goes unpunished” cl imax of the story in which Rosie reveals her reward for spearheading the m ovement to save “The Showplace of the Nation.”
\n*$10 Presen
tation only – Members (Pay Below with small Paypal fee)
\n*$15 Prese
ntation only – Non Members (Pay Below with small Paypal fee)
\nBoo
k available through Amazon
*After your purchase you will be emailed the special
presentation link by 6pm the day before the presentation and by 12pm on th
e day of the presentation.
Presents
\nA modest but determined young dan cer from Glen Rock\, New Jersey\, Rosemary Novellino joined the Radio City Music Hall Ballet Company\, the classical dance counterpart to the world- famous Rockettes\, in 1966. After a shaky beginning\, she danced with the group for twelve years\, eventually becoming its Dance Captain and Assista nt to the legendary choreographer Peter Gennaro. In the mid-1970s\, questi onable behind-the-scenes changes in Music Hall management alarmed hundreds of employees\, but no one was prepared for the official announcement in e arly 1978\, that Radio City Music Hall was slated to close that April and be demolished.
\nDrawing upon formerly untapped inner strengths\, Ro semary refused to let this happen. She became President of “The Showpeople’s Committee to Save Radio City Music Hall” and motivated fellow workers\, friends\ , thousands of Radio City fans around the world\, New York and national me dia\, cultural leaders and politicians to support the cause. As a result o f these efforts\, the Art Deco palace was declared a National Historic Lan dmark. saving not only the building but the jobs and livelihoods of thousa nds of Music Hall employees on stage and behind the scenes who have entert ained millions to this day. This “heartfelt and very personal account of t hat effort\,” says Booklist\, “provides a backstage glimpse of the drama t hat ensued and features a cast of characters that includes performers\, po liticians\, the media\, and some very heavy hitters in the world of New Yo rk real estate that will delight readers interested in the performing arts and their history in the U.S.”
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