Sunday Bingo

Sunday, April 3, 2011
2:00pm to 5:00pm

Village Idiot
7383 Melrose Ave
Los Angeles 90046
323.655.3331

First set of games starting at 2pm. Second set will start at 3:30pm. Classic cocktails and appetizers available for purchase. A special Deco-era cocktail will be featured for this bingo afternoon. Fun prizes. Come early or stay late for full entrees.

Pre-sale bingo cards, $7 for three. Advanced tickets available through Brown Paper Tickets.

Three cards at the event- $8 for members and $10 for non members.

Street and Valet parking available. See you at the "four corners".

Cocktails in Historic Places

Carlos Bar at Santa Anita Park

Friday, April 8, 2011 from 6:00pm-8:00pm

Santa Anita Park
285 W. Huntington Drive
Arcadia, CA 91007

UPDATE: There has been a slight change in the gathering place for the April 8, 2011 Cocktails in Historic Places at Santa Anita. We will gather in Carlos Bar (via the Club House entrance) and not the Frontrunner Bar as previously stated.

If you’re curious about Santa Anita behind–the–scenes, Ms. Elizabeth Booth, a special events coordinator for Santa Anita, will lead a brief tour at 7:00 pm.

Make a day of it, and take advantage of the park's Free Friday. Come for the races (post time is 1 pm), pose for a photo with the statue of Seabiscuit, dine at the FrontRunner Restaurant, and then stay for cocktails (the perfect way to celebrate your winnings!)

Come straight from work or slip into something more Deco—either way, plan to join us! Cocktails in Historic Places is open to members and non-members alike.

DIRECTIONS: Santa Anita Park is located in Arcadia, California, 14 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles. The racetrack property is bounded by Baldwin Avenue and Huntington Drive and is adjacent to the Westfield Santa Anita Shopping Center. Major freeways giving access to Santa Anita are the Foothill Freeway (I-210) to the north, San Bernardino Freeway (I-10) to the south, the San Gabriel River (I-605) to the east and the Pasadena (110) and Glendale (2) Freeways on the west.

PARKING: Please enter through Gate 5 off Huntington Drive (just west of Santa Anita). There will be a few signs that read "Art Deco Society" directing you to the Club House entrance, and to Carlos’ Bar. FREE parking.

Flappers & Funnies Lecture

Saturday, April 9, 2011 at 2:00 p.m.

Egyptian Theatre
6712 Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90028

Co-presented by the American Cinematique: Funnies & Flappers. Everyone is familiar with the image of the flapper - the modern, carefree woman who embodied the spirit of the Jazz Age. Films, literature and music all used the flapper as an artistic device. But there was another medium in which sociopolitical commentary about the flapper was present: comics. Come explore the role of the flapper in the funny papers in this illustrated lecture, presented by historian and historic preservation consultant Mitzi March Mogul.

Then, at 3:00PM: SHOW GIRL IN HOLLYWOOD, 1930, Warner Bros., 80 min. Dir. Mervyn LeRoy. Alice White stars as "Dizzy" Dixie, a Broadway understudy who is lured out to Hollywood when a smooth-talking director promises her fame and fortune. But when Dixie, against the odds of the crummy empty promise that brought her to Hollywood, actually starts to get starring roles in the movies, her ego soars along with her paycheck. Featuring brilliant Technicolor musical sequences! With cameos by Al Jolson and Loretta Young. Preceded by a "Betty Boop" short.

Advance tickets available via Fandango. ADSLA and Cinematheque members are $7.00, non-members $11.00.

Attend the 7th Annual Queen Mary Art Deco Festival for FREE

Do your friends complain that you talk too much about Art Deco Architecture? Do your co-workers’ eyes glaze over when you wax poetic about the perfection of streamline design? Does your obsession with Egyptomania border on . . . well . . . mania? Turn your passion into something tangible — and get the last laugh! Submit your lecture ideas for the 7th Annual Queen Mary Art Deco Festival, Labor Day weekend, September 2 – 5, 2011.

Not only will you be able to address an audience of like–minded individuals who understand why you swoon at the mere mention of an Air King "Skyscraper," but if your presentation is selected you will receive a two–night "scholarship" package for two–allowing you to attend this fabulous fun–filled weekend on the Festival’s dime! In this economy, it doesn’t get much better than that!

Past lecture topics have included:

Want to know more? Click HERE for complete details and submit your proposal TODAY!

Photo by Brian Boskind

Avalon Ball
Historic Avalon Casino
Catalina Island

Saturday, May 14, 2011 - 6:00pm-10pm

Our Avalon Ball committee has been working hard since (well, since the day after the LAST Avalon Ball, to be truthful) to make this already wonderful event even better! We’ve already got the perfect place (and what a place—the Art Deco gem Avalon Ballroom!), we’ve got the orchestra (Dean Mora and the Avalon Ball Dance Orchestra–‘nuff said!). Now we’ve added a great new travel package for the 2011 Avalon Ball that can save you big money on your transportation and hotel stay–and make reservations fast and easy! Complete details regarding NEW 2011 "Best Value" Avalon Ball Package can be found on our website.

Special 11:00 Avalon Ball Return Ferry tickets are now available from Catalina Express.

Tickets to the Ball are available now:

ADSLA Member Rate: $38.00 (membership must be current)
Non-Member rate: $48.

Click HERE to purchase tickets.

Photo by J. Christopher Launi