Los Angeles’ first ‘record’ store. In 1896, Thomas L. Tally opened a Phonograph Parlor on Spring Street in Los Angeles, which included a storefront arcade with phonographs and the latest cylinders. Sheet music was also sold and local musicians often recorded songs in the store. In 1902, Tally opened “The Electric Theater” in the back of the Parlor, the first permanent movie theater in the U.S. designed specifically for exhibition of films. Source: Songs in the Key of L.A.
A rare yellow penguin.
This photo, taken on October 16, 1944, near Kohlscheid, Germany, shows PFC Victor Henry (center) and two of his comrades (unidentified) confronting German troops. Thousands of miles away from home, these three members of the 119th Infantry Regiment, 30th Infantry Division, gave everything they had to defeat the forces of tyranny. Victor survived the rest of the war and returned to his hometown of Pontotoc in Mississippi.
