A Loyola patron's old Angeleno home

While organizing the historical records of Loyola High in preparation for their upcoming sesquicentennial history book we discover that patron Charles Pinney lived nearly one hundred in this same Angeleno Heights home.      

Grandfather Charles H. Pinney purchased the home from the original developers in 1888 and the cache of documents include correspondence concerning the purchase and a tract map of the original neighborhood.  

In 1896 Charles started up Pinney & Boyle, a steel products manufactor in downtown Los Angeles until he retired to manage his investment portfolio and travel.   Living for over 106 years, after 1888 Pinney never moved from his boyhood home.   

By 1978 the Carroll Avenue home was designated as a landmark in the first City of Los Angeles Historical Overlay Zone. (HOZ).

The archivist visited the home in November 2012 and discovered an episode of "Mad Men" underway at the site.    

A testimonial

150 Years of Boyhood in Los Angeles

Gathering the historical record at the High School Archives of Loyola

SAVE – THE – DATE!

OCTOBER 27, 2012 10:00 A.M. TO 5:00PM

The LA as Subject  

7^TH ANNUAL

ARCHIVES BAZAAR!!!

A rare peek into the archives of some of Los Angeles’ oldest high schools awaits the browser as Los Angeles history comes alive at the 7th-annual Los Angeles Archives Bazaar.  Meet the curators behind the Loyola, Marlborough, Harvard-Westlake and Marymount high school archives at this unusual free meeting this fall at USC. 

You are invited to join old colleagues and new friends at the LA As Subject Forum's 7th Annual Archives Bazaar returning again to USC’s Doheny Memorial Library Los Angeles Times Reading Room.  Presentations, panels, and film screenings will also be given in the Friends of the USC Libraries Lecture Hall and the adjoining Intellectual Commons.

If you haven't yet attended the Los Angeles As Subject archives bazaar we heartily invite you to join our gathering of artists, film writers, hipsters and students in a treasure trove of Los Angeles history browsing with archivists, curators, and librarians the many collections of Los Angeles.  Just a few of our previous exhibitors have included the Autry, the Beverly Hills Library, the CSU’s, Chinese Historical Society, Filipino American Library, Getty Center, Huntington Library, Workman and Temple Homestead Museum, Japanese American National Museum, La Senora, LA84, Claremont Colleges, LMU, Mayme Clayton Library, Occidental College, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, Santa Monica Library, Seaver Center, Shildler Ephemera, Southern California Library for Social Research, St. Vincent's Medical Center, UCLA and USC.

                                                                        Admission is still FREE!

A younger archive

is the High School Archives of Loyola in Los Angeles.  A record of one-hundred and fifty years is being gathered in preparation for a 2015 sesquicentennial celebration of Catholic high school education in Los Angeles.  The proctors station and readers roundtable are seen upper left.  

The oldest archives

as we think of these things is the L'Archivio Segreto Vaticano in Rome.  Here is an image of the readers area with the proctor elevated at the head of the room. [Luisa Ambrosini and Mary Willis, The Secret Archives of the Vatican, 1969]

It was twenty years ago

that this cartoon appeared on the cover of The American Archivist.  This recent article in the Atlantic is a positive reflection of the current efforts to preserve the American experience.