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The LAPD Red Squad raid on the John Reed Club art show raid took place in Los Angeles, California, United States, on Saturday, February 11, 1933. The LAPD Red Squad , the police department's anti-radical unit, crashed a political meeting and art show hosted by a number of leftist organizations.
The Cocoanut Grove was a nightclub inside the Ambassador Hotel on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. It featured lavish exotic décor and was open between 1921 and 1989. The club continued as a filming location until the hotel was demolished in 2006. The Cocoanut Grove was "probably the most beloved public room of all time" society columnist ...
Red Men's Hall, Jacksonville, Oregon. The Improved Order of Red Men is a fraternal organization established in North America in 1834. It claims direct descent from the colonial era Sons of Liberty. [2] Their rituals and regalia are modeled after those assumed by men of the era to be used by Native Americans.
The John Reed Clubs (1929–1935), often referred to as John Reed Club (JRC), were an American federation of local organizations targeted towards Marxist writers, artists, and intellectuals, named after the American journalist and activist John Reed. Established in the fall of 1929, the John Reed Clubs were a mass organization of the Communist ...
Membership. 35,000+. Chief Executive Officer. Debra Granich. Founder & Exalted Queen Mother. Sue Ellen Cooper. Website. redhatsociety.com. The Red Hat Society (RHS) is an international social organization that was founded in 1998 in the United States for women age 50 and beyond, but now open to women of all ages.
Dunbar Hotel. The Dunbar Hotel, originally known as the Hotel Somerville, was the focal point of the Central Avenue African-American community in Los Angeles, California, during the 1930s and 1940s. Built in 1928 by John Alexander Somerville, it was known for its first year as the Hotel Somerville. Upon its opening, it hosted the first national ...
The building is named after James Zera Oviatt (1888-1974) who, in 1909, came from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles to work as a window dresser at C.C. Desmond's Department Store. In 1912, Oviatt and a colleague, hat salesman Frank Baird Alexander, launched their partnership in men's clothing as the Alexander & Oviatt haberdashery, at 209 West ...
Downtown Los Angeles: Home for women's club of the same name starting in 1923 99: Eva K. Fudger House: February 24, 2023 : 211 South Muirfield Rd. 100: Garbutt House: Garbutt House: July 22, 1987 : 1809 Apex Ave.