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The Historical Society of Pomona Valley, Inc.

Cordially invites you to celebrate the1940s in the Pomona Valley at the

Annual Meeting and Installation of Officers.

 

Listen to 1940s authentic records

Many Interesting Displays Pertaining to the Local Area

 

Gourmet Meal Included - Reservations Required to Attend

 

Learn about the Japanese Relocation Camp at the Pomona Fair Grounds, the war effort, the effect on the multiple cultures and the businesses in Pomona at that time.

 

Pomona Ebell Museum of History

585 East Holt Avenue, Pomona, CA 91767

 

Saturday, February 25, 2012

6:00 PM to 10:00 PM

 1940s period clothing encouraged but not required.

 $25.00 Adults.    Children 10 & under $20.00.

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Reservations and Information: 909 623-2198

 In keeping with the theme of the 1940s please bring recyclable beverage containers: glass, plastic and aluminum are desired.

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 _______________Past Events______________

Murder Mystery Dinner

"Murder on the Menu"

 was held on Friday October 28th, 2011

The event was sold out and a big success

Finis -

Actors:

Gayle King, Bill King, Jim Gallivan, Mickey Gallivan, Bruce Guter, Cosette Lias, Nick Crisafi, Britney Gallivan, John Clifford, Denise Rawlings

Production:

Michele Lias and LizBeth Lucca

 

The evening was filled with local mystery and surprises from people whom you only thought you knew.

 

30's Fedoras and trophys were given for the funniest and the most accurate solutions.



Mystery Theater- October 29, 2011

Presented by:
The Historical Society of Pomona Valley, The National Endowment for the Arts, and the Big Read-
This year featuring the Maltese Falcon

Location:

The Historical Society of Pomona Valley
585 East Holt Avenue
Pomona, CA 91767
Pomonahistorical@verizon.net


Did that shady person you know attend?
We are located in historic Ebell Club building at 585 East Holt Avenue, where it intersects Caswell Street, in Pomona CA .


A Few Other Past Events

Annual Meeting: Fox Trotting in Pomona
The Historical Society of Pomona Valley's annual meeting was a great success as we celebrated the roaring twenties.  The excitement of the evening was trying to ignore our local temperance lady who warned about the evils of loose women and booze. Most went ahead and entered the building despite her warnings. Eileen Wallis provided a wonderful program on the women of Pomona during the twenties. She also showed some great silent movies of the era. Melissa was a great bar tender whipping up concoctions of the era. We even had our cigarette girl. Many attendees dressed in costume and the music fit the era. The silent auction was also very successful and the food was great. The museum featured twenties costumes, newspapers, yearbooks, maps and other items from the era. It was a lot of fun as well as a successful fund raiser. 


  Author Lecture: Making Lemonade Out of Lemons
The presentation was very well received.

Out of the lemons handed to Mexican American workers in Corona, California -- low pay, segregated schooling, inadequate housing, and racial discrimination -- Mexican men and women made "lemonade" by transforming leisure spaces such as baseball games, parades, festivals and churches into politicized spaces where workers voiced their grievances, debated strategies for advancement, and built solidarity. Using oral history interviews, extensive citrus company records and his own experiences in Corona, Jose Alamillo argues that Mexican Americans helped lay the groundwork for civil rights struggles and electoral campaigns in the post-World War II era.


Haunted Mansion - Premature Burial
In October of 2006 the Phillips held an event to explore one of the most frightening Victorian themes -- premature burial. People found themselves in the middle of a Victorian nightmare worse than death itself. Poe himself felt this truth was more horrifying than fiction. It would be a grave error to prematurely think of this event as being an "Ordinary Halloween Haunted House."

The event was well researched and the true stories calculated to raise the hair on your neck..

 

 

 

 

 


Screening of "The Mortuary" Featuring the Historic Currier House


The Mortuary, the film that captured the supposed haunted nature of the Historic Currier House in Pomona was filmed at our historic site.  The director was Tobe Hooper, of "Texas Chain Saw Massacre" fame.

The Doyle family moves to rural California to start a new life; perhaps a strange choice because their new life takes on the form of running the long abandoned Fowler Brothers Funeral Home. The locals fear the place, and there are whispers around town that the land the home lies on is haunted. The Doyle family will soon discover that something lurks beneath the soil -- something that raises rotten corpses from their long forgotten graves and feeds on death itself.

  This movie is rated R for horror, violence and gore, brief sexuality, nudity and language.







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