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Table Of Content

• Find A Library
• Bungalow Interiors
• Negotiations at Columbia University unstable, organizers say
• California Architecture
• Opinion: The Supreme Court could reset homelessness policy in California
• Creating advocates for history through the stories of greater Los Angeles.
• Fire marks Oceanside Pier’s latest chapter in a troubled history

By 1905, the hospital had expanded to accommodate 20 patients and converted the kitchen pantry into a "surgery suite"; by now, 229 children had received care. The Romanesque style building has a central bell tower topped with a cupola and cross. The tower has wall dormers, turrets, arched windows and vertical coursing.

Find A Library

Filipinos establish Filipino American Christian Fellowship in Los Angeles. The U.S. Census records 319,198 people in the City of Los Angeles and 504,131 people for all Los Angeles County. The first international Air Meet ever is held at Dominguez Field for ten days. The first powered flight in the west occurs at this event. A bomb explosion, resulting in the death of 21 people, destroys the printing plant of the Los Angeles Times. Harrison Otis of the Los Angeles Times unites with Los Angeles business interests to fight the activities of trade unions.

Bungalow Interiors

Miss Aline Barnsdall presents her property on Olive Hill as an art center and park. The Sears-Roebuck Building opens on East Ninth Street (present-day Olympic) in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles. Fred Cole, son of L.A.'s first garment manufacturer, introduces his first boundary-breaking swimsuit for women, the first product of what will become Cole of California. The year opens with Los Angeles fighting to overcome the influenza pandemic that had arrived in the city in September of the previous year. A second wave of infections arrives as a result of the city allowing stores, schools and public entertainment venues to reopen during the previous holiday season. Almost 1,000 additional influenza-related deaths are reported in Los Angeles before the epidemic finally seems to burn out by mid-May.

Negotiations at Columbia University unstable, organizers say

This small theater was located, on one of the old downtown blocks which was leveled in the mid-1920s to make way for the new Los Angeles City Hall. It was a two story building, with almost the entire ground floor front taken up by the theater’s entrance lobby, and the highly decorated facade was topped by an electric sign reading “Vaudeville 10 & 20”. Childrens Hospital Society of Los Angeles was founded on April 1, 1901 by a small group of women who recognized the need for a hospital that could serve ill, crippled, and under-privileged children.

California Architecture

The Occidental Hotel was eventually acquired and demolished by its neighbor and replaced by a two-story annex in 1937. In the years after the Civil War, waves of new immigrants and the national craze for German-style "beer gardens" created such a demand for malted spirits that beer replaced hard cider as America's most popular alcoholic drink. In response to that booming demand, the Los Angeles Brewing Co. opened in 1897 on the banks of the Los Angeles River, whose then cool and flowing waters were a key ingredient of the beer.

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The main building has wall and roof dormers, horizontal corbeled moldings, pilasters, brackets, arched windows and a decorative cornice. The entrance has half turrets with crosses and a pediment with a checkerboard pattern. The orphanage typically dominated the eastern horizon in the days before the County General Hospital went in.

Creating advocates for history through the stories of greater Los Angeles.

One of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department "Night Squads," 1925. These detective units responded to early morning major crimes and follow-up during the 1920s. Ross establishes Wilshire Boulevard as a "shopping" district. The Port of Los Angeles is selected as the base of the U.S. The Hollywood Bowl opens with its first performance and hosts its first Easter sunrise service.

Baker resided at the Castle until 1894 and possibly rented out the Salt Box until selling it to Ada Frances Weyse and her husband Rudolph in 1892. It's in the 1915 city directory as the Princess First St. Theatre. In the 1919 and 1923 directories it's listed as the Princess although by June 1922 it was called the Spanish Theatre offering both movies and stage shows. Today, the Walt Disney Music Hall sits across the street from where “The Dome” once stood. On a cool day 50 MPH was easy for these horses when pulling the 6000 lb steamer pump.

Fire marks Oceanside Pier’s latest chapter in a troubled history

Around 1870, the builders of newly fashionable vacation houses on the English seacoast referred to them as “bungalows,” giving them an exotic, rough-and-ready image. Tours of the house and gardens, along with prints of his floral paintings, supported the de Longpre family until the artist’s death in 1911. After his family returned to France, the house and gardens were demolished for their valuable real estate, and de Longpre’s paintings–romantic still-lifes of roses, orchids and the like–fell permanently out of fashion.

The LAPD establishes the nation's first public-funded crime lab. A 100-inch telescope is installed in the Mount Wilson Observatory. The global influenza pandemic arrives in Los Angeles by way of a naval training vessel docking at San Pedro.

This invaluable set contains over one thousand maps on aperture cards which are mounted slides that can be copied on department microfiche reader-printers. We also have Maps of the City Clerk which is also on aperture cards that show bridges, dams, sewers, tunnels and other features of Los Angeles growth from the 19th century to the 1960s. Bungalows came from India, sort of—variations of the word existed for hundreds of years before any bungalows showed up in England or the U.S. Long, low buildings with wide verandahs and deeply overhanging eaves, “bunguloues” were temporary and quickly erected shelters, built for Englishmen by native labor in India.