for Old Town Newhall Association's Night Under the Stars Sept. 13 for SCVTV.com • Local Television for Santa Clarita
for Old Town Newhall Association's Night Under the Stars Sept. 13 for SCVTV.com • Local Television for Santa Clarita
2001 Walk of Western Stars - Herb Jeffries
Downtown Newhall, California
[Walk Index][Linda Gray][Herb Jeffries][Wilford Brimley][Jo Anne Darcy]
Herb Jeffries (second from left) is inducted in the Downtown Newhall Walk of Western Stars on March 30, 2001, with (from left) Douglas Sink, 2001 president of the Santa Clarita Valley Chamber of Commerce; Patty Kelly, representing State Sen. William J. "Pete" Knight, R-19th; and Santa Clarita Mayor Laurene Weste. Immediately behind Weste is Santa Clarita City Councilman Robert Kellar. Jeffries' plaque is on the east side of San Fernando Road near Market Street, in front of the El Trocadero Mesquite Grill and Cantina.Inductees in 2001 included actors Linda Gray of "Dallas" fame (and a Sand Canyon resident), Herb Jeffries (the first African American to have a starring role in Western films in the 1930s) and Wilford Brimley (who appeared in Western films well before creating a new identity in "Cocoon") — and City Councilwoman Jo Anne Darcy who, with the late Milt Diamond (longtime leader of the former Downtown Newhall Merchants Association), founded the event 20 years earlier.
Photo by Leon Worden.
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