About a block away from the scene on the left in downtown LA, UC ran an extension service. Extension operated at that location before the general campus moved from Vermont Avenue to Westwood and afterwards. The scene in the picture is 7th Street and Hill in the 1930s. Extension was at 815 South Hill, a block away. (Sorry, I can't find a picture closer than this one.) It is not clear if the Extension program reported to UCLA or connected directly to Berkeley. (Any historians out there who know?)The catalog below indicates that people take extension courses aimed "at learning and self-help, individual improvement and intellectual progress." Teacher credentials could be earned. Among the 1930 courses was one on "Television, Telephotography and Picture Broadcasting." There was also a course in "Radio Telephony and Talking Moving Pictures." Finally, in those days long before PowerPoint, an education course is taught which is "illustrated with lantern slides."
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Dan: my research on UC workers education classes suggests that the Extension reported to the President of UC. Worker education classes ran in Berkeley and Los Angeles and date back to the early 1920s. That said, it seems that the Southern Campus, may have had more developed extension activity because it was itself a kind of extension of the original university.
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ReplyDeleteThanks Toby. Extension in LA seemed to be under a UC board which included the provost of UCLA.
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