PEOPLE
The Museum learns from those whose lives have touched, or been touched, by the San Fernando Valley. We uncover the stories of the ordinary people and sometimes our famous residents firsthand through interviews, videos and oral histories. We also collect journals, letters, school yearbooks, corporate histories and photographs--all filled with priceless memories and information. Media coverage and legends, too, yield important information that provides clues to the larger picture.
From The Museum Community’s perspective, ordinary lives are the heart of our creative Valley, and we consider each person and family interesting and important-- and a unique piece to the total Valley experience. Our families’ jobs, schooling, leisure activities, volunteerism, collections, service to the country, religious practices and beliefs and cultural affiliations comprise one of the richest human tapestries in the world.
Here is an example of just such a story.
A MONUMENT TO THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY ACES
In 1943, a long way from their former homes in the San Fernando Valley, a group of boys and young men won a baseball championship. It was no ordinary baseball team, in no ordinary place or under ordinary circumstances.
A year earlier, in a time of great fear and war-time fervor, the government of the United States ordered the removal of Japanese-American and Japanese immigrants into confinement camps far from their schools and businesses. Most lost everything they owned.
It was during this internment that youths from the San Fernando Valley celebrated “the American pastime” by forming a team called the San Fernando Valley Aces. Many of those young men enlisted in the military and would be wounded or lose their lives fighting for the United States in Europe.
Your Museum Community believes that this team’s story and its lessons about human freedoms are an important part of San Fernando Valley and American history. For this reason, we will be researching the team’s history, and raising funds to erect a suitable monument in a high pedestrian traffic area (likely on Lankershim Boulevard near Chandler Avenue in North Hollywood).
It is important that people from all backgrounds realize how fragile their liberties are, and how at a moment’s notice the property and civil rights of our fellow citizens were taken.
Here are some of the categories in which The Museum is already at work. Others will be added from time to time, as volunteer interests and funding allow.
• Veterans
• Celebrities
• Artists and Entertainers
• Pioneer Families
• Entrepreneurs
For more information about The Museum of the San Fernando Valley, please contact us at (818) 347-9665 PST or info@TheMuseumSFV.org. or visit the Contact page.
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