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[4] [5] The building and its contents were looting targets during the 1992 Los Angeles riots, [6] and Fredericks vacated the building in 2005. In 1984, the Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District was added to the National Register of Historic Places, with this building listed as a contributing property in the district. [3]
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The first marriage in Los Angeles city history in which both persons had "Anglo" surnames was in September 1845, of William Workman's daughter Antonia Margarita Workman (July 26, 1830–January 24, 1892) to Pliny Fisk Temple (Francisco P. Temple or F.P.T ) - February 13, 1822–April 27, 1880.) The Temples had eleven children, eight living into ...
D. W. Griffith spent the last year of his life at the hotel, [5] and according to the Los Angeles Times on July 23, 1948, he died after being discovered unconscious in the hotel's lobby. [7] However, Griffith may not have collapsed in the lobby at all, as other newspapers reported that Griffith had been "stricken inside his hotel room." [8]
First meeting his wife in Illinois, the family moved to Marin County, California, where Richard and his brother William Jr. were born, then to San Diego County, California, before finally arriving in Los Angeles in 1875. [2] In Los Angeles, William Sr. found financial success, establishing the Lacy Manufacturing Company in 1887. [2]
Tomb of philanthropist William A. Clark Jr., Hollywood Forever Cemetery William Andrews Clark Jr. (March 29, 1877 – June 14, 1934) was a Los Angeles–based philanthropist and the youngest surviving son of copper baron and U.S. Senator William Andrews Clark Sr. and his first wife, Katherine.
William Leasure, an ex-LAPD officer accused of setting up contract murders, sits in court during his trial April 15, 1991. (Larry Bessel / Los Angeles Times)
Perry was born on October 7, 1832, in Newark, Ohio, the son of John and Ann Perry.He went to school and learned a cabinetmaker's trade in Newark. [2] At the age of twenty-one he made his way with William Welles Hollister and a party of some fifty men and five women, with a collection of cattle, sheep and horses, from Council Bluffs, Iowa, to Los Angeles by way of Salt Lake City and San Bernardino.