School children--California--Topanga; School buildings--California--Topanga;
Children playing a game outside the schoolhouse. The Spanish style Topanga school was built in 1925 with classroom, stage and indoor restrooms, later became the American Legion Hall (now Froggy's Topanga Fish Market). Picture taken circa 1926.
Postcard photo of an aerial view of Eden Ranch, Pine Tree Circles, from south Topanga looking North, Topanga, circa 1930. Photo from the historic Topanga photo postcards collection donated to the Topanga Historical Society by Allison Acker, a...
Christian Science church buildings--California--Topanga; Christian Science--California--Topanga;
Cars parked along Topanga Highway for Christian Science church services. Christian Science was the first denomination to build a church in Topanga. In the early 1920s Christian Science practitioner Mable Lewis rented a cottage at Kneen's Kamp and...
Award winners--California--Topanga; Couples--California--Topanga;
Lynn Dickhoff (photo donor) won 2010 Citizen of the Year Award given annually by the Topanga Chamber of Commerce. Taken by photographer Katie Dalsemers, Lynn posing with husband Bruce Dickhoff at the awards party held at Froggy's Topanga Fish...
Cabins stud hillside at Kneen's Kamp with Katherine Kneen standing in the picture taken circa 1920. In 1915, Thomas W. Kneen, maternal grandfather of Lynn Dickhoff (photo donor), purchased property on the high way north of Topanga Woods on the...
Lynn Dickhoff (photo donor) won 2010 Citizen of the Year Award given annually by the Topanga Chamber of Commerce. Taken by photographer Katie Dalsemers, Lynn posing with State Senator Fran Pavley at the awards party held at Froggy's Topanga Fish...
Graduation photo of Mr. Shut and Mr. Vargo's class in June 1955. It was the first class to graduate from the new Topanga Elementary School at 22075 Topanga School Road.
Topanga (Calif.)--Childhood and youth; Memorial services;
Photo of people who grew up in Topanga that were at the memorial service in February 2008 for Jon Swenson, brother of Nancy Swenson Williams (photo donor). Standing outside of the Topanga Community House, donor is 3rd from right in the first row...
Fourth graders Joseph Sloggy and Sean Denny went on a hike through the Topanga Creek in July 1998 helping biologists search for steelhead trout. They were appalled by the collection of wrecked cars and other junk that had accumulated in the steep...
People gathered on the Topanga Community House ball field looking at the helicopter called "Big Red" that was to haul away wrecked cars from the Topanga Creek in 1999. Children got to visit inside the helicopter before it went to work. Over 100...
Smolt steelhead trout found in Topanga Creek in 2011. The Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains (RCDSMM) created the Topanga Creek Stream Team in 1996 to harness the passion of some of the local volunteers who are key to...
Anadromous adult steelhead trout found in Topanga Creek in 2009. The Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains (RCDSMM) created the Topanga Creek Stream Team in 1996 to harness the passion of some of the local volunteers who are...
Anadromous adult steelhead trout found in Topanga Creek in 2009. The Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains (RCDSMM) created the Topanga Creek Stream Team in 1996 to harness the passion of some of the local volunteers who are...
Pictured in 1998, the house at 154-156 South Topanga Blvd. was originally developed by druggist Henry L. Wilson and his wife Louise Stinetorf, a successful novelist. Her novel, The White Witch Doctor, was made into a film starring Susan Hayward and...
The house at 772 North Topanga Canyon Blvd. was built by TW Kneen, father of Lynn Dickhoff (photo donor), during World War I. It was occupied by Kneen and then Haines family, and was badly damaged in the 1999 earthquake. The house was later sold...
