Here’s another photo from “California of the Southland,” the book published by UCLA alumni in 1937. The student affairs building at the time was Kerckhoff Hall, long before the larger Ackerman Union was built. Above is the student cafeteria in Kerckhoff.
We have been running some scanned photos from “California of the Southland,” a book published by the UCLA alumni in 1937. Here we seen registration in 1936. If you read the caption, you will note that women made up a slightly larger percent of enrollment back then. Let’s move to enrollment nowadays. When the legislature passes a budget, it includes various statements of “intent” about how money should be used. UC’s budget – despite constitutional autonomy – does not escape from such quasi-directives. Technically, UC might not use money as directed, but not doing so could affect next year’s allocation,…
More difficulties coming for those who spend late hours at UCLA and use the 405 freeway: The I-405 Sepulveda Pass Improvements contractor will continue removing falsework on the Mulholland Bridge in the Sepulveda Pass on Saturday nights over the next two weekends. Metro says this will require full directional freeway closures from Valley Vista Drive to Skirball Center Drive between the hours of 11 p.m. until 9 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 17: Full southbound freeway closure, from Valley Vista to Skirball, from 11 p.m. until 9 a.m. Northbound #1,2,3 lanes will be closed as a buffer. Closures start at 11 p.m….
Yesterday, we noted that the groundbreaking for UCLA’s Grand Hotel would be on September 10. We have also noted that after blocking off the Ackerman bus turnaround and parking structure #6 on July 8, nothing much seems to have happened in the way of actual work on the site.Lest you think no one has been inconvenienced by the no-work blocking off, comes this from the Santa Monica Big Blue Bus on its off-hour service:New transit hub: Ackerman Terminal is closed for construction so BBB will use a new transit hub located on Charles E. Young Dr. and Manning Ave. Weekdays…
We have been posting pictures of working not being done at the (former) Ackerman bus turnaround and parking structure #6 since the area was closed off on July 8. Yesterday was no exception as the photos below show. No workers could be seen. But the riddle of no-work can now be partly explained. We are waiting for a grand groundbreaking for the Grand Hotel on Sept. 10, as indicated on the invitation towards the bottom. (Scroll down): A clearer version of the invitation can be viewed at the link below: Exactly why the bus turnaround and parking structure had to…
Below are photos of four separate clocks in hallways on the same floor of a building on the north end of campus. The photos were all taken within two minutes of each other. None of the clocks show anywhere near the same time. I won’t identify the building but perhaps someone with a knowledge of theoretical physics can explain the time discrepancy. Didn’t Einstein say something about this phenomenon? Well, maybe Einstein can’t help – according to the lyrics, anyway: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBwsKyMPyhw?feature=player_detailpage]Could we average the four clocks on the theory that no clock can be off by more than 12…
We have featured photo/scans from the 1937 book “California of the Southland” published back then by the UCLA alumni assn. The book notes that the bridge in central campus over the ravine had to be built early as the initial campus construction got underway to facilitate transport of needed materials. The ravine was later filled in but the bridge remains, although it appears to be an ordinary surface road.
The same 1937 “California of the Southland” book that was the source of yesterday’s post contained this photo of the rustic site of the Westwood campus of UCLA prior to the university’s move there.
Portrait of Ernest Carroll Moore who became the first “director” of the Southern Branch of the University of California, now UCLA. Moore had been head of the State Normal School on Vermont Avenue which UCLA took over as its first campus. He oversaw the later move to Westwood. (From a book published by the UCLA Alumni Assn. in 1937 entitled California of the Southland, a history of UCLA to that point.)
It looks like the ObamaJam that we mentioned as a possibility for today and tomorrow in an earlier post will turn out to be more like ObamaJelly – at least in the Westside area near UCLA. The President is coming but it appears most of his traveling will be by helicopter and what street closings there may be won’t be close to campus. More details at http://centurycity.patch.com/groups/around-town/p/officials-warn-of-clogged-traffic-as-president-visits-tuesday
