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"Art was appreciated in my neighborhood...I felt respected because I could draw, it was seen as a useful thing to be doing." [ben sakoguchi]
"Art was appreciated in my neighborhood...I felt respected because I could draw, it was seen as a useful thing to be doing." [ben sakoguchi]
1936 ^ Ramon Contreras mural (detail) ^
••• A sampling of VISUAL ARTISTS who have lived in Meadowbrook. Their efforts and activities were sometimes recorded in the pages of the San Bernardino Sun-Telegram newspaper.
c.1938 ^ Ramon Contreras
¡Presente! to dedicated art teachers: Amanda Jacobson & Hilda Mohle at San Bernardino Valley College; Winifred Johnson & Hester Leaverton at San Bernardino High School • In the early 1930's, the President of the Art club at San Bernardino Valley College was David Gilhooly. His son, also named David (born in 1943) would become a working artist, college art teacher, and part of the Funk Ceramic Movement of the San Francisco Bay Area.
••• A sampling of MUSICIANS who have lived in Meadowbrook. Their efforts and activities were sometimes recorded in the pages of the San Bernardino Sun-Telegram newspaper.
• Rosetta Andrews was ten years old in 1931
HEAR a clip of 'BOOGIE WOOGIE MAN'
June 1946 ^
c.1950 ^ Monte Easter Band with Rosetta Andrews (left) at Piano
Leaving San Bernardino High School in search of stardom, Francis Ridste took the stage name 'Carole Landis' and worked as a band singer, with the Carl Ravazzo Orchestra at the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco. Then, as Hollywood movie star Carole Landis, she sang in films, on the radio, and for the troops during World War II.
SEE clips of Carole Landis singing in film roles 1941 - 1948
SEE film of Carole Landis & Groucho Marx in comic duet for radio audience of U.S. Marines in San Diego, during World War II
SEE a clip of Carole Landis performing HARVEST MOON musical number
1945 ^ This "Army-Navy Screen Magazine" short subject was designed for servicemen and screened before feature films in military motion picture theaters. Director Frank Capra oversaw the Army Signal Corps program that produced scores of these news & entertainment films from June 1943, until early 1946.
c. 1943 ^ Carole Landis sings for the troops during World War II
Links to related pages:
∞ FELIPE CONTRERAS / RAFAEL CONTRERAS / GILBERT CONTRERAS / MARY CONTRERAS
∞ DELANO KELLER / CATALINA ALBA
∞ LUPE GUERRERO / ROY GUERRERO / LUPE GUERRERO JR
∞ JAMES TREVINO / ROBERT TREVINO
∞ RUBY McCLELLAN / DELOCHIE McCLELLAN
∞ FRANCES RIDSTE (Carole Landis)