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About the Alhambra Historical Society The Alhambra Historical Society holds public meetings
five times each year, on the fourth Wednesday of
January, March, May and September, as well as November on the Wednesday before or after Thanksgiving. The meetings are held at the Alhambra Masonic Center, 9 West Woodward Avenue at 7:30 p.m., and refreshments are available after the program.
In 1966 at the invitation of Mayor Norma Yocum and
Fred Turner, a group of 21 long-time Alhambra
residents and civic leaders met to form The Alhambra Historical Society, Inc. Norma Yocum was elected the
first president. The group proceeded in its acquisition
and preservation of documents, artifacts, and the historical records of the City of Alhambra and its residents.
The Society commemorates historical events and
honors persons who have played a particular role in Alhambra's history. Through the years taped interviews were recorded with long-time residents and
descendants of Alhambra's pioneers to preserve an
oral history of the city and its residents. In these endeavors the Society promotes historical education
and the development of civic pride.
The objectives of this Society shall be to encourage
and promote the research and study of history in its relation to the population and development of
Alhambra and the surrounding San Gabriel Valley;
as an archival and deducational organization to
collect, classify, publish and disseminate historical information, data and facts; to locate, restore, mark
and preserve historical places and structures worthy
of recognition; to acquire by gifts, bequests, purchase
or otherwise real and personal property and interest therein and hold, use, lease, sell, convey and
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Upcoming Events
March 13, 2008
Joint Meeting w/ the San Gabriel
Historical Society & Ramona Parlor
#109 of The Native Sons of the Golden West, 6 p.m., The Grapevine
Community Room, 320 S. Mission
Rd., San Gabriel; Full-Course
Dinner & Beverage: $7
All AHS members are urged to attend as ballots will be distributed for the election of officers.
Also hear about "The Life and Times of John Stephen McGroarty" by Mary
Lou Pozzo - followed by a tour of the
San Gabriel Civic Theater. McGroarty
was a California Poet Laureate, congressman and staff writer for the L.A. Times. The Mission Playhouse (SG Mission Playhouse) was built by McGroarty to stage his famed "Mission Play, which featured over 3,000 performances. The play described the California missions from their founding in 1769 through secularizationin 1834 ending with their "final ruin" in 1847. It opened in 1912 and was performed for over 30 years. |
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Current Officers and Board of Trustees (2006-07) as of July 1, 2006:
Rose Marie Markus, President; Barbara Beckley, Vice President; Von Dean Mollenhauer, Secretary; Barbara L. Sibert, Treasurer. Trustees: Cecelia Detlefsen, Immediate Past
President; Lois Ayles, Michael Patris, Stephen Sham, Steve Placido (City Council Representative) |
