VILLAGELAJOLLA

The Village: La Jolla, 1979

 

1979

 

 

La Jolla was once a village, with one bank, The Bank of Italy on the main street. A streetcar ran through the village. A sleepy small town, a jewel by the sea, but already a well-known resort around the turn of the century... and La Jollans remember it fondly. Interviewees include: Jeannette Rushton, Barbara Stockton, Francis V. Howell, William Scripps Kellogg, Rosemarie English, John Clarke Rose, Karl Zobell, Robert Hill, Gerard Burchard, Bob Wilson, Elizabeth Sellon, and Robert Barrymore. The video features historical photographs from the La Jolla Historical Society, Charles Brockmann, and Jerry Johnson. Among the memories: Lola Tuttle going in swimming at La Jolla Cove as a standin for Mary Pickford, beach parties, picnics, bonfires, "deepwater swims," sorority girls renting cottages along the beach, tourists, birthdays, parties, sewing circles, the beginnings of Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The sound of ocean surf follows accounts of time on the beaches. Interviewers were J. Edward Bungay and Lucine Sheridan, and photographs were from Charles Brockmann, Jerry Johnson, and the La Jolla Historical Society.

Jeannette Rushton; Barbara Stockton; Francis V. Howell; John Clarke Rose; William Scripps Kellogg; Rosemarie English; Karl Zobell; Robert Hill; Gerard Burchard; Bob Wilson; Elizabeth Sellon; Robert Barrymore; Virginia Scripps; Ellen Browning Scripps; La Jolla Pharmacy; Putnam's; Bank of Italy; La Jolla Cove; Mary Pickford; Lola Tuttle; Green Dragon Camp; Ellen Browning Scripps Park; Scripps Institution of Oceanography; John Cole's Book Shop

 

 

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English

 

 

00:17:11

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Video

M4V

369.09 MB