Amongst the cookbooks in the Fenyes Mansion are handwritten vintage recipes from a century ago. Since August is National Peach Month, we decided to share Read More »
Category: Women’s History
Organized for a Cause: Social Clubs & Women’s Suffrage
In 2020, PMH joined the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment with two blogs related to a suffrage scrapbook from the museum’s Read More »
Painting California: “…a very valuable thing…”
“It seems to me it would be a very valuable thing if you could carry out your plan to make accurate water-color studies of the Read More »
Eva Fenyes and Boadway Brothers Department Store
It was an enormous pit, a huge gaping excavation that threatened to undermine Cabrillo Place. The bungalows and shops teetered on the edge of a Read More »
Mrs. Fenyes and the Movies (Part 4 of 4): The Egyptian becomes the Uptown Theater
When Warner’s Egyptian Theater closed its doors in 1935, Henry Warner, one time owner and then manager of the theater, was out of a job. Read More »
Mrs. Fenyes and the Movies (Part 3 of 4): Warner’s Egyptian Theater
Letterhead, 9 May 1936. (Fenyes Collection, FCP.162.4) Warner’s Egyptian Theater opened in Pasadena, California on May 6, 1925 as a combination vaudeville, legitimate theater, and Read More »
Mrs. Fenyes and the Movies (Part 2 of 4): The Mission Theater
Clune’s Broadway Theater, built by William (Billy) Clune on Eva Fenyes’ property at 528 South Broadway in Los Angeles, opened in October 1910. Just months Read More »
![The American proposes (Pasadena, California) [actors: Carol Dempster & Richard Barthelmess], November 1918. Colored pencil on paper, 6.5 x 5 in. (Fenyes Collection, ESF.012.3122)](https://pasadenahistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Blog_Movies1_featured.jpg)
Mrs. Fenyes and the Movies (Part 1 of 4): Los Angeles
Eva Fenyes came to Pasadena in 1896, attracted by the temperate climate, the beautiful landscape, and the quality of light which is so unique to Read More »
First Ballot Cast: Grace G. Madden Votes
While we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, it is worth noting that many women had won the right to Read More »
1920: Sketches from 100 Years Ago
For the Museum’s 100th blog, I thought it would be fun to look at sketches that Eva Scott Fenyes created 100 years ago. While Eva Read More »
