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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.
Summary. Description. 1930 California state highways.svg. This is a map of California's state highway system (constructed and proposed routes) as it existed in 1930. Email me if you would like a copy of the GIS data I created for the highways. Date. 23 November 2007 (original upload date) Source. No machine-readable source provided.
Recommended state highway system, 1896. The first state road was authorized on March 26, 1895, by the California State Legislature when it enacted a law which created the post of "Lake Tahoe Wagon Road Commissioner" to maintain the Lake Tahoe Wagon Road (the 1852 Johnson's Cut-off of the California Trail), now US 50 from Smith Flat — 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Placerville — to the Nevada ...
Between 1920 and 1930, new oil fields across southern California were being discovered with regularity, including Huntington Beach in 1920, Long Beach and Santa Fe Springs in 1921, and Dominguez in 1923. Southern California had become the hotbed for oil production in the United States.
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] The earthquake had a magnitude estimated at 6.4 Mw, and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII ( Severe ).
St. Francis Dam. / 34.54694°N 118.51250°W / 34.54694; -118.51250. The St. Francis Dam, or the San Francisquito Dam, was a concrete gravity dam located in San Francisquito Canyon in northern Los Angeles County, California, United States, that was built between 1924 and 1926. The dam failed catastrophically in 1928, killing at least 431 ...
Arroyo Seco Parkway Pasadena Freeway Part of Historic US Route 66 Arroyo Seco Parkway highlighted in red Route information Maintained by Caltrans Length 8.162 mi (13.135 km) History Opened in 1940; renamed in 1954; name reverted in 2010 Tourist routes Arroyo Seco Parkway Scenic Byway Restrictions No trucks over 3 tons (including buses, unless authorized by the California Public Utilities ...
State Route 1. State Route 1 ( SR 1) is a major north–south state highway that runs along most of the Pacific coastline of the U.S. state of California. At 656 miles (1,056 km), it is the longest state route in California, and the second-longest in the US after Montana Highway 200. SR 1 has several portions designated as either Pacific Coast ...