“If a place doesn’t exist, it’s hard to tell the story,” says Adrian Scott Fine, director of Advocacy for the Los Angeles Conservancy, as we toured Terminal Island.
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While it is hard to smile about paying taxes, here are a few stories that should amuse: • On April 15, 1951 a 70-year-old couple in Syracuse, New York received
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Made elegant clothing available to wealthy American women Pioneered concept of head-to-hem stores Made the Carnegie Look the rage for fashion-conscious women Henrietta Kanengeiser was born in 1880, the second
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The All American Red Heads, a women’s professional basketball team, were the female equivalent of the all-male Harlem Globetrotters; Like the Globetrotters, they were stellar at the game of basketball
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Known as the most noted black cowboy that ever ‘topped off’ a horse Became well-known and respected in a world of anonymous cowhands Just as white families looked west for
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President from 1789-1797
Today we know that the “I cannot tell a lie” statement George Washington was supposed to have made to his father after cutting down a cherry tree is not true; it was a story that came from Washington’s first biographer, Parson Weems, who saw fit to fill in with stories he thought would embellish the tale of our first president.
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