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This Collection consists of a 119 page Scrapbook put together by members of the Weber College Whip Club, the school's pep club, covering the years between 1946 and 1955. Included are a full listing of yearly pledges, 27 football programs, newspaper clippings concerning charity and sports events, 10 invitations, menus, 7 letters, 15 photographs, and a biography of the Whip Club by Norma Manning. |
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Show For those seeking the early Spanish atmosphere there are two old Franciscan Missions, San Gabriel Archangel, founded Sept. 8, 1771 at San Gabriel, about a dozen miles from downtown Los Angeles, and San Fernando Rey de Espana, founded just twenty-six years later in San Fernando on the northwestern edge of the San Fernando Valley. Then there's Olvera Street, block-long reproduction of the early California and Mexican scene, opening up onto the ancient Plaza and the Plaza Church (1781). Little Tokyo, Chinatown, the Mexican Quarter, all add their flavor to the scene in Los Angeles, while at Terminal Island one can well imagine himself at some foreign fishing village, what with the immense fleet of fishing vessels and the babel of a dozen tongues. The immense ports of long Beach, Wilmington and San Pedro are a beehive of activity with the coming and going of ships from practically every port in the world. Offshore may be seen sea-battered cargo vessels; long, low tankers and sleek ocean liners threading their way past the grim, gray giants of Uncle Sam's Navy. Long Beach, you know, is home port for a part of the great Pacific Fleet. Probably no other county in the world boasts the miles of wide, sunny beaches with which Los Angeles is so richly endowed. The aquatic sports of swimming, surf-bathing, aquaplaning and yachting offer delightful diversion to the California visitor, while there is no thrill on earth to equal deep sea sport fishing. If one tires of the mainland thrills, Catalina Island is but an hour, by luxurious pleasure ship, from the Port of Wilmington. The annual Tournament of Roses in Pasadena each New Year's Day, followed by the Rose Bowl Football Game; the thrill of the huge Los Angeles County Fair at Pomona each fall; the winter horse-racing season at beautiful Santa Anita and the summer season at Hollywood Park; big league baseball in the summer; football and ice hockey in the fall and winter, and with every day tailored for the utmost enjoyment, Los Angeles, City of the Angels, located on El Camino Real, and all of Los Angeles County an integral part of the Mission Trails area, will give you a vacation to be long remembered. |