Histories · 1975Estimated date
Draft history — library supporters and Friends founding
Unfinished typescript discusses early reading groups, 1914 benefit and 1959 founding, with blanks and unresolved questions.
Names in this record: Mrs. Myron L. Gazin is Pat Gazin.
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Transcribed from the scans and checked against them by Claude. Typed text comes first; handwritten notes follow it. [illegible] marks words that cannot be read and [?] an uncertain reading.
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Any hisotry of the Hermosa Beach library.. or its Friends.. is inextricably entwined with the history of the city itself.
The city was settled(though sparsely) before 1900. In 1907(?) it was incorporated. Even in its earliest days, the city boasted a literarily oriented group of women... sevvvveral. There was a circulating library sponsored by __________ and a MOther's reading group... a circle of young mothers whose children enjoyed being read to.. Instead of reading to each family individually and at different times, those reading-bent mothers merged. The result was a circle of book-sharing friends bok thinking friends intimates whose friendships... in three generations.. grandmothers to grandchildren.... endure to this day. Some of the leaders of this group are Marge Russelle, the late Mrs. Wickersham? ck Mrs. Dewey Hagen (now living in Simi) and ........
In effect, Hermosa beach's library has always had freidns.
However, the first step toward a formal organization of a Friends of the Library, came with a founding meeting in 1959, at th home of Mrs. Myron L. Gazin, then a city counsilman.
All that was needed was a first push. Entushiasm was ;immeidat and endorsement came from all sides. Organizers present for that first
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rally included: most
of whom mantain membership to this day.
This public spirited group of women, in 1914 sponsored a theatre party in July for the benefit of the public library fund.
The party took place in the then Hermosa theatre ++++ located where++ and included: ?????
Profits, amounting to ........ were used to purchase............
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