By Daily Press staff
The Thomas Alva Edison Recording Project continues its mission of carrying on its namesake’s dream of recording the top voices of his time via phonograph on Monday, when recordists make a stop in Santa Monica to put the voice of award-winning actress June Lockhart in the annals. The Project honors the inventor by using original Edison equipment, circa 1910, to record great voices of each generation.
Lockhart, who has starred on Broadway, film and such enduring television shows as “Lassie,” “Lost in Space” and “Petticoat Junction,” is a Santa Monica resident, whose parents were introduced to one another by Edison himself.
Lockhart will be at the Santa Monica Historical Society Museum on Monday to furnish her recording alongside representatives from the Thomas Edison Memorial Tower and Menlo Park Museum in Edison, N.J.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on September 20, 2003. Read the original PDF.