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Title supplied by cataloger. The McGroarty Home was built by John Steven McGroarty, poet, journalist, playwright, historian, politician, and Tujunga's first mayor. It is located at 7570 McGroarty Terrace, Tujunga. It was declared a Historical-Cultural Monument on February 4, 1970 and became the McGroarty Arts Center in 1974. Frances Muir Pomeroy of North Hollywood, chief historian of the San Fernando Valley, is seen talking about the progress being made in preserving the McGroarty home in Tujunga as an historical shrine. The headline on the newspaper she is holding reads, "Poet McGroarty's Hilltop Home Harbors Many Memories." Photograph dated August 21, 1946.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
Pomeroy, Frances Muir McGroarty, John Steven,--1862-1944 McGroarty, John Steven,--1862-1944--Homes and haunts McGroarty Arts Center (Los Angeles, Calif.) American newspapers--Headlines American newspapers Women--California--Los Angeles Dwellings--California--Tujunga (Los Angeles) Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments Microphones Tujunga (Los Angeles, Calif.) Portrait photographs Valley Times Collection photographs
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