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1932 Los Angeles Olympic Athlete's Village in the Baldwin Hills: history; Baldwin Hills Dam history; University Park Family—a collaborative online community: focused on University Park, Expo Park and the surrounding areas. Leimert Park Beat—a collaborative online community focused on Leimert Park: "The Soul of Los Angeles and the African ...
As Los Angeles quickly grew during the 20th century, only the rugged terrain of this section of the Baldwin Hills protected it from being developed. In 1932 the area east of the park was used as the site of the first Olympic Village ever built, for the 1932 Summer Olympics in the 10th Olympiad, which Los Angeles hosted. [18]
Baldwin Hills Reservoir after 1963 failure, view south. The gash through the dam corresponds to the alignment of a fault. The Baldwin Hills Dam disaster occurred on December 14, 1963 (61 years ago) () in the Baldwin Hills neighborhood of South Los Angeles, when the dam containing the Baldwin Hills Reservoir suffered a catastrophic failure and flooded the residential neighborhoods surrounding it.
The school opened in 1937 and currently enrolls an average of 2,400 students. Dorsey High is now one of the few predominantly African-American high schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District, with 55% of its students African American and 45% Latino. It is located at 3537 Farmdale Avenue and Obama Boulevard in Baldwin Village. The school ...
Village Green, originally named Baldwin Hills Village, is a neighborhood at the foot of Baldwin Hills, within the city of Los Angeles, California. Village Green consists of a large condominium complex that is both a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument and a National Historic Landmark .
The Baldwin Hills mountain range and its affluent Baldwin Hills neighborhood of South Los Angeles were named for him, as was the City of Baldwin Park, the Baldwin Stakes at Santa Anita, the Baldwin Village neighborhood, Baldwin Lake in the San Bernardino Mountains (near Baldwin's 1876 Gold Mountain Mine), Baldwin Beach at Lake Tahoe, and ...
Baldwin Vista, Los Angeles, a neighborhood in South Los Angeles, California, U.S. Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Baldwin Hills .
Santa Barbara Post Office (93101). Reginald Johnson, architect, 1936. Commissioned as part of the New Deal. Reginald Davis Johnson (1882–1952) was an American architect. His practice, based in Pasadena, California, focused on the Los Angeles area and southern California in general, with a mixture of residential and commercial work.