[Encore] Architecture + Advocacy in L.A.’s Sugar Hill Cindy Olnick 0:00Hello, Save As listeners. Cindy Olnick, here. We are thrilled to bring you an encore episode from 2023 about a project that is back in the news. This project called…
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Documenting Black Women’s History at the Wilfandel Clubhouse
Dedicated students at the University of Southern California have pulled out the laser scanners and measuring tapes to document the Wilfandel Clubhouse in the West Adams neighborhood of Los Angeles. The Wilfandel Club, the oldest Black women’s club in Los Angeles, was founded in 1945 by Della Williams (wife of architect Paul R. Williams) and Fannie Williams as a safe place for social, civic, and community events. In this episode, producer Willa Seidenberg visits the clubhouse to see the students in action, hear what they’re doing and why, and talk with longtime member Jan Morrow Bell.
Documenting Black Women’s History at the Wilfandel Clubhouse Cindy Olnick 00:00Today on Save As… Eliza Jane Franklin 00:01This is really a hidden gem. So many of these places and spaces that will uplift the Black community are often hidden, or they’re unacknowledged…
Architecture + Advocacy in L.A.’s Sugar Hill Trudi Sandmeier 0:00Today on Save As … Kianna Armstrong 0:01It was powerful to know that in the past there were people that looked like me that were living in these spaces and they…