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  2. Museum of Jurassic Technology - Wikipedia

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    Museum of Jurassic Technology. Coordinates: 34°01′33″N 118°23′42″W. The Museum of Jurassic Technology at 9341 Venice Boulevard in the Palms district of Los Angeles, California, was founded by David Hildebrand Wilson and Diana Drake Wilson in 1988. [1][2] It calls itself "an educational institution dedicated to the advancement of ...

  3. Main Street (Los Angeles) - Wikipedia

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    Forster Block, 122–128 S. Main St. (post-1890 numbering), 22–28 S. Main St. (per-1890 numbering), was a two-story building built in the early 1880s, five doors south of the Grand Opera House. It housed a coffee house of the Women's Christian Temperance Union at #26, heavily damaged in an 1885 fire, and a saddlery.

  4. List of streets in Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    Los Angeles streets, 11–40; Los Angeles streets, 41–250; Los Angeles Avenues; List of streets in the San Gabriel Valley; External links "L.A.'s crooked heart".

  5. Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    Los Angeles, [a] often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.With an estimated 3,820,914 residents within the city limits as of 2023, [8] It is the second-most populous city in the United States, behind only New York City; it is also the commercial, financial and cultural center of Southern California.

  6. History of Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    California portal. v. t. e. The history of Los Angeles began in 1781 when 44 settlers from central New Spain (modern Mexico) established a permanent settlement in what is now Downtown Los Angeles, as instructed by Spanish Governor of Las Californias, Felipe de Neve, and authorized by Viceroy Antonio María de Bucareli.

  7. Google Maps - Wikipedia

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    Google Maps is a web mapping platform and consumer application offered by ... Detroit, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, Philadelphia, San ...

  8. Valley Village, Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    In 1939, when we moved there, Valley Village was an isolated two-block town in the middle of miles and miles of orange and walnut groves, peach orchards, and cornfields. It was situated at what you might call the end of Los Angeles: the city, the county, and the idea. Across the street from the house was a dirt farm, usually in corn: acres and ...

  9. Silver Lake, Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    213, 323. Silver Lake is a residential and commercial neighborhood in the east- central region of Los Angeles, California [2] originally home to a small community called Ivanhoe, so named in honor of the novel by Sir Walter Scott. In 1907, the Los Angeles Water Department built the Silver Lake Reservoir, named for LA Water Commissioner Herman ...