miscellaneous

Above is Powell Library in the late 1940s.  If you were on campus late last week, you saw the latest crop of undergraduates arriving or returning.  At around the time that this photo was taken, Maurice Chevalier – someone none of today’s undergraduates could identify – had thoughts about being age 20, as it was seen from that era: [Link courtesy of the unofficial Facebook page of the UCLA Emeriti Assn.and its custodian Yousee Elayemeriti who is looking for friends, but only of members of the Emeriti Assn.]

As the photo below suggests, there used to be a lot of water around UCLA. Nowadays, there is some remnant of that earlier state to be found between Anderson and UES.  You can find a creek, sometimes dry (as it is right now), in a kind of nature preserve at that location.  The creek is channeled underground as it runs south of the preserve.  See the photos below.

From the Daily Bruin: Wolfgang Puck, a casual dining restaurant in Ackerman Union, is scheduled to open to the public on Wednesday. The restaurant is offering a sample service for select people or groups in the days leading up to the opening so that the staff can gain some experience… The restaurant’s patio furniture will not arrive until a few days after the opening and restaurant officials are still finalizing the liquor license, but Wolfgang Puck will open without them so that the restaurant staff can train before school starts… Wolfgang Puck will have full service, including patio seating and beer and wine…

Soldier poses with wife or girlfriend in Westwood in 1943.  It’s not clear where exactly they were posing. My guess is that it is at the corner of Westwood and Kinross, with the camera probably facing southeast. With the exception of the building now housing Yamato Restaurant – which isn’t the one in the background of the photo – the other buildings at that corner now seem to be of later construction. But there is a plaza there which could have contained a fountain. If that guess is correct, the view today would be something like what you see below….

Westwood’s Griffins atop Fox Theater (Village Theater) Fox Theater in 1930s (Built 1930-31) New York’s Chrysler Building (Built 1928-30) A Chrysler Building Griffin

Jules Stein gets certificate from LA County supervisors in 1965 for a large donation to UCLA.

From the Daily Bruin: University police issued a warning on Friday about men attempting to sell counterfeit Armani jackets in Westwood, according to a police report. UCPD has received five reports since February about suspicious men driving around Westwood Village and the UCLA campus, asking students for directions to the Los Angeles International Airport, and offering to sell them the fake designer jackets at a reduced price, said Brian Washburn, a university police detective…  One of the two men was described in the police report as white, about 35 to 40 years old, with black hair and a thin mustache. The other man…