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The Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association (LACERA) is an independent Los Angeles County agency that administers and manages the retirement fund for the County and outside Districts (Little Lake Cemetery District, Local Agency Formation Commission for the County of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Office of Education, and South Coast Air Quality Management District). [3]
Bechtel's business activities began in 1898, when cattle farmer Warren A. Bechtel moved from Peabody, Kansas, to the Oklahoma Territory to construct railroads with his team of mules. [6][7] Bechtel moved his family frequently between construction sites around the western United States for the next several years, eventually moving to Oakland ...
84000891 [1] LAHCM No. 278. Added to NRHP. July 26, 1984. The Title Guarantee and Trust Company Building is an Art Deco style highrise building on Pershing Square in Downtown Los Angeles. It was built in 1930 on the site of the California Club building. [2] The building was designed by The Parkinsons, who also designed many Los Angeles ...
August 28, 2024 at 2:32 PM. Luxurious and secluded, a spectacular residence on an immense lot in Northern California built for a member of the billionaire Bechtel family in 1958 has hit the real ...
Warren Augustine Bechtel was born on September 12, 1872, on a stock farm in Freeport, Illinois, as the fifth child of Elizabeth (Bentz) and John Moyer Bechtel in a family of two boys and five girls. [2][3][4] In 1884, his family moved to Kansas. [4] In 1891, Warren graduated from Peabody High School in Peabody, Kansas. [5]
Stephen Bechtel Sr. Stephen Davison Bechtel (September 24, 1900 – March 14, 1989) [1] was the son of Clara Alice West and Warren A. Bechtel, founder of the Bechtel Corporation. He was the president of the company from 1933 to 1960.
Howard Fieldstad Ahmanson, the company's founder, was born in Omaha, Nebraska on July 1, 1906. [1] Considered by his father to be a genius by the age of five, Ahmanson founded the H.F. Ahmanson company in 1927, before graduating from the University of Southern California. [2] Ahmanson's company specialized in casualty insurance and quickly ...
Trousdale Estates. Coordinates: 34.1035°N 118.3973°W. Trousdale Estates is a neighborhood of Beverly Hills, California, located in the foothills of the Santa Monica mountains. It was developed in the 1950s and 1960s and is named after Paul Trousdale, a real estate developer. [1]