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The Murphy Ranch house in Los Angeles, 2006. Jessie M. Murphy purchased 41 acres of the Lawes property in Rustic Canyon, Los Angeles in the early 1930s. This land became known as Murphy Ranch. Winona and Norman Stevens purchased it from Jessie Murphy in 1933 or 1934. Winona Bassett Stevens was a wealthy heiress, inheriting a fortune amassed by ...
M5.4 on Oct 2 1933 [ 8] Casualties. 115–120 killed [ 1][ 9] Camping out in Southgate, California after an earthquake on March 10, 1933. The 1933 Long Beach earthquake took place on March 10 at 5:54 P.M. PST south of downtown Los Angeles. The epicenter was offshore, southeast of Long Beach, California, on the Newport–Inglewood Fault. [ 10]
Los Angeles in the 1920s. The 1920s were a prosperous era for Los Angeles, California, United States, when the name "Hollywood" became synonymous with the U.S. film industry and the visual setting of Los Angeles became famous worldwide. Plentiful job openings attracted heavy immigration, especially from the rural Midwest and Mexico.
Fletcher Bowron replaced Shaw as mayor in 1938 to preside over one of the more dynamic periods in the history of the city. His "Los Angeles Urban Reform Revival" brought major changes to the government of Los Angeles. Paramount Pictures, c. 1940. In 1950, he appointed William H. Parker as chief of police. Parker pushed for more independence ...
t. e. The Los Angeles flood of 1938 was one of the largest floods in the history of Los Angeles, Orange, and Riverside Counties in southern California. The flood was caused by two Pacific storms that swept across the Los Angeles Basin in February-March 1938 and generated almost one year's worth of precipitation in just a few days.
September 21, 1977. The Old Warner Brothers Studio, now known as the Sunset Bronson Studios (formerly known as KTLA Studios and Tribune Studios ), is a motion picture, radio and television production facility located on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. The studio was the site where the first talking feature film, The Jazz ...
The Los Angeles crime family, also known as the Dragna crime family, the Southern California crime family[ 7 ] or the L.A. Mafia, and dubbed "the Mickey Mouse Mafia" by former Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates, [ 8 ] is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Los Angeles, California as part of the larger Italian-American Mafia.
Old Chinatown, Los Angeles. Old Chinatown, or original Chinatown, is a retronym that refers to the location of a former Chinese-American ethnic enclave enforced by legal segregation that existed near downtown Los Angeles, California in the United States from the 1860s until the 1930s. Old Chinatown included the former Calle de los Negros and ...