December 15, 2025
Tag: National Schools
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NATIONAL SCHOOLS, LOS ANGELES
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Technical schools: places that teach how the world works. At the turn of the 20th century a wealth Californian saw her first car. Instinctively she realized that some day a mechanic would be needed to repair that car. To that end she built a school, hired teachers, and held classes in auto repair. That was…
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March 21, 2024 6 Comments
In modern times, if a prize is the award for the best performance in a show, the winner would certainly be surprised to learn that his prize is a cake. That was not always the case. On the slave plantations in the early 19th century, a cake was often the prize. Cake was a rarity at that time, and the dance performances came to be known as cakewalks. Postcards help us understand how the cakewalk dance is a subtle mockery of the events in the big house.