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LAPL Photo Friends ❤ the Valley
Photo Friends is an enthusiastic group of people bonded by a passion for
photography, history, and Los Angeles! We are a non-profit organization that
supports the Los Angeles Public Library’s (LAPL) Photograph Collection and
History & Genealogy Department. Our mission is to improve access to collections and promote them through public programs, projects, and exhibits.
Our latest project is a fundraising effort to enable the digitizing and cataloging
of the LAPL’s Valley Times (1946–1970) archive. The project will make around
30,000 images available for searching online at the library’s web site. The images
include hard news stories such as crime and politics but emphasize the development of the Valley and human interest stories, including social clubs, school
events, groundbreakings, local politics, amusement parks, leisure activities, the
movie industry in the Valley, religion, commercial industry, aerospace industry,
new architecture, and more! Visit us online to learn how to support this effort.

Find us online:
Photo Friends site & blog: photofriends.org
Photo Collection: photos.lapl.org
Faceboo k: facebook.com/photoslapl

May 14, 1964: The six Gibbons children of San Fernando will celebrate National Hospital
Week with big dishes of ice cream—after they all have their tonsils out Saturday in Burbank
Hospital. From left, back row, Carolin, 12; Susana, 9; Donna, 6; front row, Kim, 5; Richard, 4;
and Deborah, 8. They are six of the seven junior members of the Merle Gibbons family, 759
Cork St. The youngest is only 10 months. They won’t leave until tomorrow, but they are all
ready now. (Photographer George Brich, Order #00093461)