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Ice Cream Sundae (Social)

Date: August 10, 2025
Time: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Location: 2225 Colorado Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90041
Exact details available closer to event

Why Parrots in L.A.?

Date: April 21, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Location: 2225 Colorado Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90041
with Brenda Ramirez from the Moore Lab of Zoology at Occidental College Non-native parrots have become a very present and boisterous element of the urban ecosystems throughout Southern California. Through the Free-Flying Los Angeles Parrot Project (FLAPP) on iNaturalist, we created a dataset focused on two of the more prominent species in Southern California, the […]

General Meeting – Route 66, 100th Anniversary

Date: October 21, 2024
Time: 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Location: Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, 2225 Colorado Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90041

Scott Piotrowski will give us a rundown of the planning that is going into the 100 year celebration of Route 66.
Come join us! If you can't make it, or are remote, we will try to simulcast! https://occidental.zoom.us/j/81476385377, Passcode 589275

General Meeting – Ice Cream Social

Date: August 11, 2024
Time: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Location: Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, 2225 Colorado Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90041

The Eagle Rock Valley Historical Society resumes the annual Eagle Rock Ice-Cream Social at the Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock
Free admission!
Food tickets available at the door.
$2-A-Dip Ice Cream, "Endless" Toppings, Icy Lemonade, Bake Shop
ERVHS & Merchant-Donated Prizes and More!
Entertainment by Community Bands and Performers

General Meeting – Rockitecture – The Glory of River Rock Architecture

Date: April 15, 2024
Time: 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Location: IN PERSON!!!! Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, 2225 Colorado Blvd, Los Angeles/Eagle Rock, CA 90041 AND on Zoom: passcode 982265

This meeting will be in-person, but we will also try to simulcast on Zoom. This is our first in-person general meeting since 2020, so we are super exited. Come join us! If you can't make it, or are remote, try to login to zoom at https://occidental.zoom.us/j/81596239876, passcode 982265

General Meeting – Nightlife in Eagle Rock

Date: October 17, 2023
Time: 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Location: Zoom Passcode: 870077

A few months ago, Jim Hughes brought to us the
developers scrambled to open and stay engaged with fruits of research he had done into various nightclubs
trends in nightlife. The various incarnations of the club and bars in Eagle Rock. This piqued our interest and
initially named The Double H Club exemplify this motivated us to look at our collection to find out what
struggle to survive and prosper. The size of the club
we knew about the subject. We found much to share
motivated the owners to continually rebrand the club with Jim, but we were reminded that there was much
to attract a profitable audience.
that we didn’t know.
Bars which principally catered to a drinking trade We decided to invite the public to share their memo-
continued to exist in an environment where hard liquor ries and souvenirs at our next Meeting.

General Meeting – Tuesday August 8, 2023 @ 7pm

Date: August 8, 2023
Time: 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Location: Passcode 752947
The Jay Risk Standard Station - A Historic-Cultural Monument with consultant Steven Luftman(Go to the zoom link by clicking on the "General Meeting" link, above.)

General Meeting – Tuesday April 18

Date: April 18, 2023
Time: 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Location: Zoom recording passcode: !we52Lp5
Evolution of the Los Angeles Skyline, with David McMenamin (ERHS S'65, Occidental College '69) Have you ever wondered why Los Angeles did not have any buildings taller than the City Hall until the late 1960s, or why, until recently, LA skyscrapers had flat tops, or why downtown LA now has an “old” financial district and a “new” […]

General Meeting – Professor Long discusses Jock Peters

Date: February 21, 2023
Time: 7:00 pm
Passcode: 403420 Presentation by renowned Martin S. Kermacy Centennial Professor, Mr. Christopher Long from the School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin. Professor Long will be discussing the life and career of one of the pioneers of modernism in Southern California: Jock Peters.