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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
We have visited numerous military academies (Page, Black-Foxe, Pacific, etc) over the years on NLA.
But I don't believe we have seen the Urban Military Academy.
Here's some brief information on the Urban Military Academy:
" Urban Military Academy was a boarding and day school in Hollywood, California, for boys between the ages of six and fifteen, founded in 1905 by Mary McDonnell (on Melrose Avenue at Wilcox; it later moved to 11600 Beverly Blvd.) and at the time it opened "the only private school for boys in the City." Its commandant was Major Harry Lee Black, who in 1928 helped found Black-Foxe Military Institute on Urban's original site."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_Military_Academy |
The '28 cartoon map mentions Urban and has it somewhere west of Gower, sandwiched between Melrose and Rosewood Avenues (Below the LA Tennis Club and above the Wilshire Country Club). The '22CD lists the office at 800 Alvarado Street and the ad touts 100 acres adjoining the Wilshire Country Club.
LAPL has several '20s images of the Academy near the golf course. Difficult to miss "URBAN."
1920s "Horse Play?"
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics43/00071336.jpg
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics12/00025984.jpg
1920s
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics12/00025985.jpg
USC Digital provides an undated glimpse of two substantial campus buildings:
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si.../id/4963/rec/1