PARADE PLUS POLO

EVENTS

Today you can watch the annual Los Angeles Nisei Week Parade, with the Karate Kid’s own Noriyuki (Pat) Morita as grand marshal. To the beat of Japanese drummers, the procession will march through the streets of Little Tokyo, starting at 1st Street and Central Avenue. From there, it will proceed northwest to Los Angeles Street, down to 2nd Street and return to end at Central Avenue. The parade starts a week of festivities, including a 5K run, a bicycle race and a carnival. Pre-parade entertainment begins at 3 p.m., with the parade scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. Telephone (213) 687-7193. . . . The San Bernardino County “All American Country Fair,” now through next weekend at the San Bernardino County Fairgrounds in Victorville, is packed with entertainment. Concerts feature Eddie Rabbitt (Monday); Paul Revere and the Raiders (Tuesday); Sha Na Na (Wednesday); Roger Miller (Thursday) and David Frizzell (Friday). Telephone (619) 245-5308.

CELEBRATIONS

Singer Eddie Fisher celebrates his birthday today; he was born in 1928. . . . Author Alex Haley has a birthday Monday; he was born in 1921. . . . Actors who celebrate birthdays on Tuesday include Cantinflas, born in 1911; John Derek, born in 1926, and George Hamilton, born in 1939. . . . Wednesday is International Lefthanders Day. . . . Actress Susan Saint James will be 40 on Thursday.

YESTERDAYS

Thirty years ago this week, two buildable acres in Malibu were on the market for $8,800. . . . A four-bedroom oceanfront home on Lido Isle in Newport Beach was offered at the bargain price of $25,000. . . . A package of six crumb donuts could be had for 25 cents. . . . A 15x30-foot pool could be built for $2,450--and 4% pool loans were available. . . . Legg Lake opened for fishing for the first time. . . . Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong were the headliners at the Hollywood Bowl. . . . Terrycloth robes could be purchased for $8.99. . . . Ground chuck was three pounds for a dollar. . . . The Democratic Convention, held in Los Angeles that year, was grabbing the headlines, with former President Harry S. Truman and Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois getting most of the attention.

August 14, 1934

A story in The Times told of considerable building activity in the Westwood area, proving once again that the more things change, the more they stay the same. Only the dollar figures were smaller then.

“New construction estimated in excess of $180,000,” the article states, “is now under way in Westwood Hills north of Wilshire Boulevard and east of the University of California at Los Angeles, according to a report by the Janss Investment Corporation house department yesterday.

“This construction includes eight new residences, two of which are being built for the house market. The remaining six homes are being constructed by individuals, who have selected Westwood Hills for the site of their new home location. Spencer E. Sully, retired capitalist, and Walter De Leone, Paramount studio executive, are among those now building, while Karl Levy of the law firm of Loeb, Walker and Loeb, has just moved into his recently constructed home on Comstock Avenue.

“Word has been received that Judge George H. Kelly is now formulating plans for a Holmby Hills home, construction on which is expected to start within sixty days.

“Perhaps the apartment house boom on Wilshire Boulevard that made headlines several years ago got its start in 1934, for the story continues with the observation that “in addition to the residential building now under way, a twenty-five room apartment on Lindbrook Drive, one block north of Wilshire and a block east of the Village, is nearing completion and will be ready for occupancy by the beginning of the university fall term, according to the owner and builder.”

In addition to housing construction, the real estate market must also have been quite brisk, since “the Janss house department report shows the sale of seventeen houses in Westwood for July, most of which were nine and ten-room homes located north of Wilshire Boulevard, and indications for the first part of August are that this month will approximate the house activity of last month.”