The holidays are here, and home cooks everywhere are getting out their families’ traditional recipes! Maybe some are pulling out vintage cookbooks, stained with years of use. This particular cookbook from the Valley Relics Museum Collection was originally a free gift from the Los Angeles Department…
Just a short article today! In 2015, the Valley Relics Museum received an incredibly generous donation of vintage menus (the Gorsky Collection). It was my task as the museum's archivist to sort and catalogue each individual menu. The menus dated from the 1940s through the 1990s,…
Sixty years ago this month, on February 3, 1959, was the tragic plane crash that took the lives of three early rock and roll icons: Buddy Holly, J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, and Ritchie Valens. Valens was only 17 and had risen to rock stardom…
