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Los Illegals. Los Illegals is an American Chicano punk band from Los Angeles . Formed in 1979 artist/muralist Willie Herrón (keyboards, vocals), civil rights activist Jesus "Xiuy" Velo (bass), drummer Bill Reyes, and guitarist brothers Manuel and Antonio "Tony" Valdez (who also perform with their Mariachi parents & relatives).
Concrete Blonde y Los Illegals. (1997) Internal Exile is the first album by the Los Angeles Chicano punk band Los Illegals. The songs on the album deal with issues such as immigration, poverty, street gangs, violence, and alienation. The band toured to promote the album, and began to record tracks for their second album entitled "Burning Youth."
Wallichs Music City. Wallichs Music City was a record store [ 1] in Hollywood, California, US, founded by Glenn E. Wallichs, [ 2] that also had stores in West Covina, [ 3][ 4] Lakewood, [ 5] Canoga Park, Costa Mesa, Torrance, Buena Park, [ 6] and Hawthorne [ 7] from 1940 to 1978 and was one of the first to display cellophane-sealed albums in ...
In 1929, the company was founded and opened its first store at 7651 S. Central Avenue in Florence, South Los Angeles [3] [4] In 1950 it expanded this store. In a 1950 advertisement, the company tongue-in-cheek explained that its lone location was in a "low rent area". [5] Its second store opened in October 1957 at 16040 Sherman Way in Van Nuys. [6]
It was founded by 800 U.S. Post Office employees who wanted to leverage their buying power by purchasing goods directly from wholesalers, and eliminate the additional markup of a retail store. The Board of Directors, headed by Robert Kee, established the first store on Slauson Avenue in Los Angeles. Members would come into the store and find ...
Hartfield’s Downtown Los Angeles location at 545 Broadway was a 1931 Art Deco building originally home to the F. W. Grand Silver Store. Hartfield was present on Broadway (Los Angeles), the main shopping district in the Los Angeles area, in the 1940s, at 545 Broadway, and a 1943 advertisement showed branches at 253 South Market Street in Inglewood, 650 Pacific Boulevard in Huntington Park ...
Unapproved hostels are opening in otherwise quiet Los Angeles neighborhoods, leading to neighbor complaints and an increase in police calls. Illegal hostels are popping up in L.A. neighborhoods ...
In 1983, Wherehouse Entertainment Inc., renamed from Integrity Entertainment Corp., went public with a public offering of 750,000 shares under the symbol WEI. At this time, the company had 126 stores, primarily in California. [6] [7] In 1984, the company began renting movies, or "video software" in 77 of its 126 stores, with a roll out into ...