The Myer Siegel Department store at 1025 Westwood Boulevard was one of the major businesses that moved into Westwood Village in the 1930s. There were several branches of this company in the LA area; this branch was built in 1937. The same location is shown below in a recent photo from Google maps.
The photo shows UCLA Chancellor Franklin Murphy, basketball coach John Wooden, and donor Edwin Pauley at the groundbreaking ceremony for Pauley Pavillion, probably around 1964. (The official opening was in 1965.) Pauley – whose wealth came from oil – was a prominent Democrat. However, the fundraising drive for the structure (which Pauley matched) was headed by H.R. Haldeman of Watergate fame. Pauley, a Regent, played a major role in the dismissal of UC President Clark Kerr due to student protests, primarily at UC-Berkeley. Speaking of firing, we haven’t featured sports on this blog. But there is so much news surrounding…
Today’s LA Daily News carries a story about a former UCLA student who is compiling records on UCLA students who died in World War II. The story is at http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_22893921/ucla-war-dead-come-alive-research-project
No, I don’t know the full story behind the matter described below:From the Winston-Salem Journal: The board of regents for the University of California system is accusing Wake Forest University Health Sciences of stalling through recent legal actions that seek the dismissal of a countersuit related to a primate colony in southern Forsyth County. The Wake Forest group and the University of California at Los Angeles are involved in a legal fight to end their joint venture in the research center in the Friedberg community. The primate center is based on a 200-acre farm and has about 80 employees, including 12 veterinarians, according…
UCLA co-generation plant California’s cash-strapped public universities would save millions of dollars under legislation by Orange County state Sen. Mimi Walters, but the bill’s prospects are uncertain because it would alter a landmark global warming law beloved by environmentalists. Walters’ proposal seeks to exempt University of California and California State University campuses from the new cap-and-trade program established under the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, otherwise known as Assembly Bill 32 or AB32, one of the nation’s most ambitious environmental laws… At least five UC campuses, including Irvine, UCLA and San Diego, qualify for the cap-and-trade program in 2013……
Even after UCLA’s Westwood campus opened, this 1929 photo indicates that there was still ongoing construction, at least in the vicinity of Powell.
The original St. John’s Hospital in the early 1940s A report in the LA Times today suggests UCLA is considering a bid to take over St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica. St. John’s is only a few blocks from Santa Monica Hospital which UCLA previously acquired. UCLA and the nation’s largest Catholic healthcare system are teaming up on a potential acquisition of St. John’s Health Center, a storied Santa Monica hospital up for sale after a recent management shake-up. The partnership between UCLA Health System and Ascension Health Alliance in St. Louis is one proposal under consideration by St. John’s…
Awhile back, we posted about a plan by the Westwood Business Improvement District to remove eighteen trees. The proposal had sparked controversy. Now LAObserved has posted a photo showing that the trees in question have indeed been cut down. No additional information is given with the photo. So it looks as if that’s it for the lumber: The earlier posts can be found at:http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-westwood-tree-issue-continues.htmlandhttp://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2012/10/a-tree-may-or-may-not-grow-in-westwood.html
Basically, getting to UCLA from 5 am until a little after 2 pm on Sunday could be a hassle. A timetable of street closures is at:http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2013/03/los_angeles_marathon_rout.php
As predicted, the UC Regents approved the architectural and CEQA review for the planned new UCLA Teaching and Learning Center for the Health Sciences with a virtual rubber stamp. There was one question on funding from a regent and the answer was that $120 million (!) would be raised from gifts. No follow up on funding or costs was part of the approval. By the way, if you raise $120 million by tapping donors, that means there will be less money from gifts that could be tapped for some other purpose. In past regental reviews of this project, the issue…
