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A sideshow in San Jose, 2021.. A sideshow (so-called in the San Francisco Bay Area, and a street takeover in the Los Angeles area [1] [2]) is an informal and often illegal demonstration of automotive stunts now often held in vacant lots, and public intersections, originally seen in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, United States.
"With nearly 1000 [African-American] women employed as burners, welders, scalers, and in other capacities at the Kaiser Shipyards in Richmond, California, women war workers played an important part in the construction of the Liberty Ship, SS George Washington Carver, launched on May 7th, 1943. Welder -trainee Josie Lucille Owens plies her trade ...
Jane Barnell (January 3, 1879 [1] – July 21, 1945) was an American bearded lady who worked in circus sideshows, dime museums and carnivals, who used various stage names including Princess Olga, Madame Olga and Lady Olga.
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The Mai Tai cocktail was first concocted in Oakland in 1944, and it became very popular at Trader Vic's restaurant. [41] Established in 1932, just four years later, Trader Vic's was so successful San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen was inspired to write, "the best restaurant in San Francisco is in Oakland". [42]
Marlene Dietrich (left) and Rita Hayworth serve food to soldiers at the Hollywood Canteen in 1942.. The Hollywood Canteen operated at 1451 North Cahuenga Boulevard in the Los Angeles, California, [1] [2] neighborhood of Hollywood between October 3, 1942 and November 22, 1945, as a club offering food, dancing, and entertainment for enlisted men and women, [1] [3] who were usually on their way ...
Lydia Flood Jackson – businesswoman, club woman, suffragist, an oldest living native of Oakland when she died in 1963 [102] Marcus Foster – educator, first African-American Superintendent of the Oakland Unified School District [103] Alicia Garza – co-founder of Black Lives Matter [104] Elihu Harris – politician, former mayor of Oakland ...
The actress helped inspire the look for the famous logo, one of several actresses ordered by Columbia Pictures to pose as Miss Liberty, for which she was only paid $25. (Photo: Tim Boyle ...