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The Boathouses are a group of twelve small houses in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, California. The group is situated on Pacific View Drive and Woodrow Wilson Drive on the south side of Cahuenga Pass. The houses were designed by architect Harry Gesner and built in 1959 by Norwegian boatbuilders using tools such as axes and adzes.
The Harbor Subdivision is a single-track main line of the BNSF Railway which stretches 53 miles (85 km) between rail yards near downtown Los Angeles and the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach across southwestern Los Angeles County. It was the primary link between two of the world's busiest harbors and the national rail network.
The city street, Via Dolce, forms the boundary between Los Angeles and the unincorporated area of Los Angeles County known as Marina del Rey. According to the United States Census Bureau, Marina del Rey has an area of 1.5 square miles (3.9 km 2). Nine-tenths of a square mile (2.2 km 2) is land and 0.6 square miles (1.6 km 2) is water (40.91%).
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Los Angeles Harbor, Port of Los Angeles, the long thin left-right jetty on the left side point to Berth 44, San Pedro Boatworks 33°42′57″N 118°16′35″W / 33.715768°N 118.276426°W / 33.715768; -118.276426 San Pedro Boatworks also called the San Pedro Boat and Yacht Company was a boatyard in San Pedro, California the ...
With U.S. government support, breakwater construction began in 1899, and the area was annexed to Los Angeles in 1909. The Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners was founded in 1907. In 1912 the Southern Pacific Railroad completed its first major wharf at the port. During the 1920s, the port surpassed San Francisco as the West Coast's busiest ...
Lake Balboa is flanked on the north by Northridge, on the east by Van Nuys, on the south by the Sepulveda Basin and on the west by Reseda. [3] Its street and other boundaries are Roscoe Boulevard on the north, Balboa Place, the Van Nuys Airport, Hayvenhurst Avenue and Odessa Avenue on the east, Victory Boulevard on the south and White Oak Avenue on the west.
Harbor area, Los Angeles: Shoestring Annexation (Dec. 26, 1906) San Pedro Annexation (Aug. 28, 1909), Wilmington Annexation (Aug. 28, 1909) As defined by Mapping L.A. of the Los Angeles Times, the region, which includes the city of Los Angeles as well as other cities and unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County, is a 193.09-square-mile area flanked by South Los Angeles or Los Angeles County ...