USC

 In Los Angeles' 'Little Tokyo,' news of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor left shocked silence yesterday

  

 Mrs. Southern California, 6 September 1951. Mrs. Ruth Poger

  

 Posture Queen, Rosemead High School, 1960

[wow. high school has changed pretty radically in the last 50 years!]

  

 Riverside County Fair (Hemet), 26 August 1953. 

Jerra Lynne Tyler ("Farmer's Daughter of 1953")

  

 Santa Barbara road races, 1958

[hard to imagine a more iconic image of 1950s Southern California]

[my subtitle for this: "Fast and Furious: The Prequel" :)]

  

 Santa Monica beach, 1952

  

 USC sorority women gathered around a telephone, 1949

  

 USC sorority women pillow fight

  

Zeta Tau Alpha members costumed for a Halloween party, 1912