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B. H. Dyas flagship building under construction as the Ville de Paris, 7th Street & Olive, 1916. Broadway Hollywood Building. originally B. H. Dyas' Hollywood branch. B. H. Dyas Co. was a Los Angeles sporting goods retailer that turned into a department store and went out of business in the 1930s, owned by Bernal Hubert Dyas (1882–1959).
The Clippers, however, nearly moved to Anaheim permanently in time for the 1996–97 season, but according to a Los Angeles Times article published in June 1996, owner Donald Sterling turned down a deal that would have paid the team $95 million over 12 years. Odgen Corporation, who at the time managed the Pond, and the city of Anaheim offered ...
Jordan Downs. Jordan Downs is a 700-unit public housing apartment complex in Watts, Los Angeles, California, next to David Starr Jordan High School. It consists of 103 buildings with townhouse style units ranging from one bedroom to five bedrooms. The complex is owned and managed by the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA).
This list of museums in Los Angeles is a list of museums located within the City of Los Angeles, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Otis Chandler (great-grandson) Dorothy Buffum Chandler (granddaughter-in-law) Harry Chandler (son-in-law) Signature. Harrison Gray Otis (February 10, 1837 – July 30, 1917) was a Union Army officer during the American Civil War who later became president and general manager of the Times Mirror Company, then the publisher of the Los Angeles Times .
The 1992 Los Angeles riots (also called the South Central riots, Rodney King riots or the 1992 Los Angeles uprising [4] [5]) were a series of riots and civil disturbances that occurred in Los Angeles County, California, United States, during April and May 1992. Unrest began in South Central Los Angeles on April 29, after a jury acquitted four ...
2011 Southwest blackout. The 2011 Southwest blackout, also known as the Great Blackout of 2011, [1] [2] was a widespread power outage that affected the San Diego–Tijuana area, southern Orange County, Imperial Valley, Mexicali Valley, Coachella Valley, and parts of Arizona. [3] It occurred on Thursday, September 8, 2011, beginning at about 3 ...
Casualties. 57 killed. > 8,700 injured. Magnitude of the earthquake and aftershocks. The 1994 Northridge earthquake was a moment magnitude 6.7 ( Mw ), [8] blind thrust earthquake that occurred on January 17, 1994, at 4:30:55 a.m. PST in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles.