Val Verde resort, Santa Clarita Valley, 1940s
Item Overview
- Title
- Val Verde resort, Santa Clarita Valley, 1940s
- Date Created
- [1940s?]
- Date
- 1940/1949
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection
Notes
- Description
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Prominent African American Angelenos, such as Sydney P. Dones, Norman O. Houston, Joe and Charlotta Bass, and others began constructing a black-owned vacation resort for African Americans in 1924 on 1,000 acres in the Santa Clarita Valley, about 50 miles north of Los Angeles. It was originally called Eureka Villa. The community's slogan was "Industry, Education, Pleasure, Religion." Later, community members changed the name of the community back to Val Verde. In 1940, the resort opened its brand new Olympic-sized pool (pictured here), which was partially financed by the WPA. The resort was tremendously popular, nicknamed "The Black Palm Springs."
All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph : b&w
Keywords
- Genre
- Black-and-white photographs
- Names
- Val Verde (Calif. : Resort)
- Location
- California--Val Verde
- Longitude
- 34.445375
- Latitude
- -118.65734
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
-
Environment
Lifestyle - Resorts--California--Val Verde
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections
- Local Identifier
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YRLSC_gordonphotos_0293
Collection 1867 Box 2 Folder 4
293 - ARK
- ark:/21198/zz0025pbrb
- Manifest url
-
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted