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For more information on the history of Capitol Records, visit http://popculturefanboy.blogspot.com Thank you, Mark Heimback-Nielsen

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Glenn Wallichs middle name was Everett. Clyde Wallichs was his brother who took over Wallichs Music City after Glenn started Capitol Records with Mercer and DeSylva. The company's first offices where not across the street from Music City, but on the other side of Sunset Blvd on the same side of Vine Street. The executive offices were moved to above Music City approx 1946 with other parts of the company in small offices in a couple of locations on Hollywood Blvd. In 1956. The Capitol Tower was opened and for the first time all the domestic divisions of Capitol were under the same roof.

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It is strange how we all seem to pick up (or not) similar things. I found my attention wondering for much of this lecture as well. I almost felt like she was there trying to work out her own frustration, rather than present an argument. I too was a little shocked to hear about the overt support (and success) for the film "The Klansmen." I agree with Yaeri that Anderson didn't really "prove" her thesis that blacks had been politically active and significant long before the 60s. What really got me was when she said that, I think it was the 2000 election, blacks made up 7% of the city. Maybe its me, but I found that number to be way lower than I imagined.

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Perhaps I just had a short attention span that night, but I have to agree with Yaeri that this was not one of the better lectures of the semester. However, Anderson did bring to light racist moments that were quite hard to digest like the President of the United States endorsing the film ‘The Klansmen’ and the reception it received in Hollywood. It was interesting that she acknowledged that the LA Riots in the early 90’s were in fact riots because of their unorganized nature as opposed to ‘uprisings’ or other more PC or genteel terms that have tried to replace ‘riots’. Her information on Biddy Mason was interesting and I would like to learn more about her.

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