Featured Products
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Living the California Dream (Signed)
$55.00African American Leisure Sites during the Jim Crow Era
In Living the California Dream Alison Rose Jefferson examines how African Americans pioneered America’s “frontier of leisure” by creating communities and business projects in conjunction with their growing population in Southern California during the nation’s Jim Crow era. By presenting stories of Southern California African American oceanfront and inland leisure destinations that flourished from 1910 to the 1960s, Jefferson illustrates how these places helped create leisure production, purposes, and societal encounters.
Also recommended:
Throwback Thursday Lecture Series: African American Leisure Sites
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Gymnasts Balancing at Muscle Beach
$0.00 – $145.00PHOTO REPRINT
Fourteen male and female gymnasts performing balancing stunts before spectators in front of Khoury’s Cafe on Ocean Front Walk on Muscle Beach, south of the Santa Monica Pier.Archive Details | Print Details
You might also like the book: Remembering Muscle Beach
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Santa Monica Lifeguard Station Toy
$27.00This block set is the perfect accessory for all beach-themed play, with pastel-painted wooden parts that assemble in seconds using a simple peg-and-hole system!
Not for children under 3 years of age.
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The Bendy Straw
$3.00The bendy straw is 8.5 inches, made of 100% stainless steel and an eco-friendly way to save our planet!
Engraving on straw: Santa Monica History Museum
Straw does not actually bend.Bendy Straw History: After watching his young daughter, Judith, struggle to drink a milkshake with a straight straw, Joseph B. Friedman invented the bendable straw. The Santa Monica based company, the Flexible Straw Corporation, was founded in 1939, and in the late 1940’s was manufacturing bendable straws, with its first sales marketed to hospitals.
Visit us and see more history of the straw in our A Town at Work exhibition room!
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Santa Monica Pier – A Century on the Last Great Pleasure Pier
$19.95Celebrate a century of good times on the Santa Monica Pier! Vintage images and magnificent color photos capture this beloved international icon at its very best. Its dramatic story of survival — fighting Mother Nature, politics and changing times — makes Santa Monica Pier more than a landmark, more than a pleasure pier or a must see on the West Coast. Santa Monica Pier is a slice of American history to be enjoyed again and again and again.
100+ black-and-white and color images
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Place Setting – Winfield China – Blue Pacific
$65.005 piece place setting
Includes cup, saucer, salad plate (7.5″), dessert plate (5.75″), fruit bowl (4.75″)HISTORY: Winfield Pottery was founded in 1929 and continued in production until 1962. Originally located in Pasadena, Winfield China moved to Santa Monica in 1946. After 1946, Winfield sold some of their rights to the American Ceramics Company. The Winfield Division of American Ceramic Products was produced in a 65,000 square foot factory and showroom located at 1825 Stanford Street.
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L.A. Lifeguards
$19.99Thousands of men, women, and children owe their lives to the Los Angeles County Lifeguards. Made famous by the television show Baywatch, these lifeguards patrol 72 miles of coastline extending from Zuma Beach to the Los Angeles Harbor. Working on some of the world’s most scenic and active beaches, Los Angeles County lifeguards protect the safety and lives of more than 50 million visitors each year. For nearly a century they have braved hazardous weather and surf conditions to rescue drowning swimmers, sinking vessels, and downed aircraft in the ocean. As the Lifeguard Operations Unit of the Los Angeles County Fire Department, they make more than 10,000 ocean rescues a year.
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Miss Muscle Beach 1952
$0.00 – $145.00PHOTO REPRINT
Winner Beverly Jocher, two finalists and two participants in the Miss Muscle Beach of 1952 contest before spectators on Muscle Beach, south of the Santa Monica Pier. The Hotel Chase, located along Ocean Front, is in the background.According to the Los Angeles Times, “Beverly Jocher, drawn to Muscle Beach from Philadelphia, could support 590 pounds of acrobats on her 110-pound frame.”
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You might also like the book: Remembering Muscle Beach
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The Santa Monica Farmers’ Market Cookbook (Signed)
$22.95Santa Monica’s Farmer’s Market, one of the largest markets in the state, it stands at the forefront of the national trend toward cooking with local and seasonal ingredients. For more than 25 years, Amelia Saltsman has shopped its stands, talked with its farmers, and cooked its magnificent produce for family and friends. The result is The Santa Monica Farmers’ Market Cookbook, a celebration of the market’s excellence and its hardworking farmers.
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Santa Monica Bay – Paradise by the Sea
$29.95SANTA MONICA BAY is a sweeping illustrated history of the region with hundreds of archival illustrations and contemporary photographs by Fred Basten.
We have several of Fred Basten‘s images in our collections.
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Ebony Beach Club Building
$0.00 – $145.00PHOTO REPRINT
The Ebony Beach Club building, located at 1811 Ocean Avenue -
Henshey’s Department Store
$0.00 – $145.00PHOTO REPRINT
Henshey’s Department Store, 1940Henshey’s Department Store was located in the Tegner Building at the corner of 4th Street and Santa Monica Boulevard from 1925 to 1992. Founded by Harry C. Henshey and partners, it was Santa Monica’s first department store and for years anchored the City’s Central Business District.
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You might also like the book: Signs of Santa Monica
