Nov/December 2025

6 – Purebred PIGEON Fanciers gathered to watch the finals at the LAPC Young Bird Show - Photo by Lynn Watson Los Angeles Pigeon Club’s Young Bird Show Draws 300 Entries - September 20, 2025 by Robert “Bob” Nolan – LAPC Vice-President The Los Angeles Pigeon Club has a long and storied history of holding successful young bird shows. When the club was formed in 1911, written into the constitution was the stipulation that the club would hold two shows a year. One a summer young bird show and an annual all age winter show. True to these goals, the club has seldom missed staging these two events. The first young bird shows were small backyard affairs held at members homes often having a hun- dred birds and perhaps 25 fanciers in attendance. Oth- er locations over the years have included Pierce Junior College (arranged by Drew Lobenstein), Pomona Fair- grounds, George Nuerburg’s home in North Hollywood, local parks and even at a triple A baseball field called Wrigley Field in downtown Los Angeles. (Before the major league Angels had expanded to California, L.A. had a triple A team also called the Angels. One of the club’s members, Babe Twomley, of the famous Pigeon News publishing family, was an Angel player who helped get the use of the location. Obviously it was held when the Angels were on the road.) Y oung B ird S hows of T oday Of late, local parks in Orange County have been the sites of many successful shows. Fred Maenpa and Stan Makse had secured, in the recent past, a neighbor- hood location called Euca- lyptus Park on the outskirts of downtown Anaheim. In the past decade, club shows numbered as high as five-hundred birds. With the shrinking of the number of pigeon breeders our shows Seated: Diane Jacky LeBlanc, Kathie Johnson, Bob Nolan. Standing Frank Barrachina and Bill Griebel - photo by Lynn Watson