VP at the Los Angeles Breakfast Club

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February 20, 2022

 

FVNEM? (Have we any ham?)
SVFM (Yes we have ham)
FVNEX? (Have we any eggs?)
SVFX (Yes we have eggs)
OICVFMNX! (Oh I see we have ham and eggs!)

 

VPLABC! (The Velaslavasay Panorama at the Los Angeles Breakfast Club!)
Wednesday - March 9, 2022
7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
$25 (includes ticket & breakfast)

Sara Velas and Ruby Carlson of the Velaslavasay Panorama present a slideshow on friendship of panoramic proportions at the historic, the esteemable Los Angeles Breakfast Club.

Along with the good fellowship and distinctive customs of LABC members, the show will cover the coming together of the Velaslavasay Panorama with the painters of Shengjing Panorama 《盛京全景图》 - Li Wu 李武, Yan Yang 晏阳 and Zhou Fuxian 周福先.

With a one-hundred-year presence in the city of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Breakfast club meets weekly on Wednesdays at 7:00 a.m. to enjoy a hot breakfast while partaking of club traditions, humorous songs and guest speakers.

----This event takes place offsite at the LABC headquarters: Friendship Auditorium at 3201 Riverside Drive, Los Angeles 90027 Advanced tickets are requried ----

Los Angeles Breakfast Club (LABC) began in Griffith Park in the 1920s (the heyday of the Union Theatre and the era depicted in  Shengjing Panorama) when equestrian businesspeople began meeting for breakfast after an early morning ride. Maurice DeMond, director of the Los Angeles National Horse Show, formalized the group and secured a headquarters across from the Griffith Park Riding Academy (3224 Riverside Dr).
 
 
 
 
 
 
(Riverside Drive panorama by Herman Schultheis, circa 1938. Former LABC headquarters with stone tower pictured twice on the left)
In the words of the LABC, the Breakfast Club was built on the foundations of friendship, good-natured silliness and ham ‘n eggs but not necessarily in that order.

In 1933 the LABC needed to relocate and temporarily posted up at the Ambassador Hotel on Wilshire Boulevard, then obtained headquarters on Los Feliz Boulevard near the park in 1937 and finally in 1965 built a permanent headquarters on park property known today as the Friendship Auditorium.

 
 
 
 
Sara Velas & Ruby Carlson with painters & friends of Shengjing Panorama
in Shenyang, China 2017