National Technical Schools
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National Technical Schools was founded by Vrena Bender Rosenkrantz[1] in 1905, as National School of Engineering,[2] at 4000 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, California.[3][4][5][6][7] National School of Engineering, at least until 1916,[8][9] by 1922[10] renamed National Auto School.[11] then National Schools.[5][6][7][8][12][9]
A branch campus was opened in Mexico City, because the Spanish language courses were so popular.[13][1]
In the 1930s, Sam Rosencranz operated National Auto School[14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]
In the 1950s, there was an office in Chicago, Illinois. Around 1970 the school was renamed National Technical Schools. In 1985, National Technical Schools was sold to United Education & Software, an Encino-based trade school operator, and went bankrupt in 1989.[22] In 1998, the building was torn down.
Similar contemporary American schools
(chronological)
- International Correspondence Schools (ICS), now Penn Foster Career School (founded 1890, in Scranton, PA) (still open)
- Massey Technical Institute (founded 1894 in Jacksonville, FL) (defunct in the mid-1970s)
- Coyne Electrical School, now Coyne College (founded 1899) (defunct 2022)
- National Radio Institute (founded 1914 in Washington, D.C. to 2002) (now defunct)
- Capitol Radio Engineering Institute (founded 1927 in Washington, D.C.) (still open)
- DeVry Technical Institute (founded 1931 in Chicago IL as Deforest's Training Inc.) (still open)
- Cleveland Institute of Electronics (founded 1934 in Cleveland, OH, as Smith Practical Radio Institute) (defunct 2022)
- Sprayberry Academy of Radio (founded 1943, in Washington D.C. but also operated out of Pueblo, CO, and Chicago, IL) (now defunct)
- American Basic Science Club (founded 1957 in San Antonio, TX) (now defunct)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "National Schools, Los Angeles". Postcard History. 7 May 2020. Retrieved 12 June 2025.
- ↑ "French Dips, Diesel Smoke, and Student Loans". More Than Red Cars. Retrieved 12 June 2025.
- ↑
- "The National Schools (reverse)". flickr. 10 July 2020. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
4000 S. Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, Calif.
- "The National Schools (obverse)". flickr. 10 July 2020. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
4000 S. Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, Calif.
- "The National Schools (reverse)". flickr. 10 July 2020. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
- ↑ "Orchard and farm" at Internet Archive "...NATIONAL AUTOMOTIVE SCHOOL Dept. 73, 81 1 So. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, Cal. Mail This Coupon for FREE AUTO BOOK NATIONAL AUTOMOTIVE SCHOOL, Oept. 73, 811 ..."
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Dick Whittington Studio (1926). "(1) Automobiles in road and National Automotive School, congestion at South Figueroa & Santa Barbara, Southern California". Getty Images.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Dick Whittington Studio (1926). "(2) Automobiles in road and National Automotive School, congestion at South Figueroa & Santa Barbara, Southern California". Getty Images. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "National Schools, Los Angeles, CA, USA". Radiomuseum.org. Retrieved 12 June 2025.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "LEARN auto trade in most practical school on Coast". Morning Oregonian. Portland, Oregon: University of Oregon, Knight Library. September 15, 1915. p. 15. Retrieved 19 July 2025.
Course includes everything worth knowing about auto business. No time limit; Special exposition rates.. Many positions secured. Board and room while learning. Catalogue free. National School of Engineering, Los Angeles. Est. 1905.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 "National School of Engineering (established 1905), Los Angeles". The Sacramento Bee. Sacramento, California: Newspapers.com. 1 April 1916. p. 28. Retrieved 19 July 2025.
- ↑ Page 4 — North County Times 3 October 1922 California Digital Newspaper Collection "...NATIONAL AUTOMOTIVE SCHOOL, 845 South Figueroa, Los Angeles..."
- ↑ "Japanese American News" (PDF). International Research Center for Japanese Studies. 1924-04-18. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
National Auto School
- ↑ "GOOD JOBS". The Tribune. San Luis Obispo, California: Newspapers.com. 5 September 1922. p. 4. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
GOOD JOBS open now for auto mechanics and electricians. Easy to room and board and a little more, while learning. Big illustrated book of automobile opportunities explains everything. Sent FREE postpaid. Write today. National Automotive School, 883 South Figueroa, Los Angeles.
- ↑ Dick Whittington Studio (1930). "Spanish students, National Automotive School, Southern California". calisphere. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
- ↑ Dick Whittington Studio (1930). "New shots of different department, National Auto School". calisphere. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
7 photographs of men at National Auto School, Southern California, 1930.
- ↑ Dick Whittington Studio (1936). "Portrait of Sam Rosencranz, Southern California, 1936". calisphere. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
- ↑ Dick Whittington Studio (February 1930). "Student body, National Automotive & Electrical School, Los Angeles, CA". calisphere. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
- ↑ Instructors, 'National Schools', Los Angeles, Calif., 1937 in "Dick" Whittington Photography Collection, 1924-1987 at Digital Library, University of Southern California
- ↑ Dick Whittington Studio (1930). "Former students at their work, National Automotive School, Southern California". calisphere. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
- ↑ Full text of "Mechanix Illustrated 1932-02: Vol 7 Iss 4" Internet Archive ... Los Angeles, National Automotive School NATIONAL AUTOMOTIVE, Dept. 23-C, 4006 Figueroa St., Los Angeles, Calif. Send me, absolutely free...
- ↑ "Obituaries for May 12". Rapid City Journal. 11 May 2004. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
- ↑ "LEARN Autos in Los Angeles". The Lafayette Leader. Lafayette, Colorado: www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org — Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection. June 24, 1932. Retrieved 20 July 2025.
Here's the opportunity of a lifetime. We have set aside a limited number of scholarships, allowing coach railroad fare from your home to California. This is a limited offer. Free Employment Service Full details about the famous National course of trainin'! and employment plan will be sent. We help you secure a part time job to earn living expenses while learning. Enroll this summer. National School is direetly opposite Olympic Stadium where the X Olympiad will be hold.
- ↑ Apodaca, Patrice (21 November 1989). "Trade School Stops Accepting New Students". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 12 June 2025.
External links
- National Schools v. City of Los Angeles
- National Schools AM/SW radio kit by Boatanchor Pix at Faculty and Staff Websites, Ohio University
- "National Schools Mechanical Camera". Early Television Museum.
- Blattenberger, Kirt. "National Schools Radio Television & Electronics Training Ad, September 1945, Radio-Craft". RF Cafe .com.
- Figueroa Street looking south to Santa Barbara Avenue (later Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard), with the Coliseum Hotel and National Automotive School on the left and the Figueroa Theater on the right. - Legacy Photo Collection, [[ Los Angeles Public Library]]
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