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In 1882, Colonel Griffith Jenkins Griffith acquired 4,071 acres (16.5 km 2) of Rancho Los Feliz. Colonel Griffith donated to the city of Los Angeles 3,015 acres (12.2 km 2 ) (nearly half of the original rancho), which became Griffith Park, one of the largest city-owned parks in the country.
York Steak House was a national chain of steakhouse restaurants in the United States. It was among several chains owned at the time by cereal manufacturer General Mills. By 1982, there were nearly 200 restaurants in 27 states from Texas to Maine. [1] Though popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the majority of its locations shut down in ...
Griffith bequeathed $700,000 and his Los Feliz acreage to the city of Los Angeles to be used for additions to Griffith Park. On August 9, 1969, Charles Manson and six others murdered supermarket executive Leno LaBianca and his wife Rosemary in their home located at 3301 Waverly Drive in Los Feliz, henceforth known as the Tate–LaBianca murders .
3341-3351 Griffith Pk/3910-3918 Los Feliz: Los Feliz: Pre-Columbian style building designed for writer Manly Palmer Hall, founder of the society; Robert Stacy-Judd was principal architect. 593: Max Factor Make-Up Salon: April 26, 1994
[1] [7] Bounded on the east by the Los Angeles River, the land, known as El Rancho de Nuestra Señora de Refugio de Los Feliz (Ranch of Our Lady of Refuge of the Feliz Family) Felipe de Goycoechea reported five ranchos in private possession in 1795, none of them the Feliz rancho. An 1802 letter from Goycoechea, on the other hand, assumed Borica ...
Griff's was named for the founder, HJ Griffith. [2] The restaurant buildings were of a patented [3] A-frame design, [1] produced by Valentine Diner [4] of Wichita, Kansas. Later restaurants sported more conventional architecture. A bright yellow sign read HAMBURGERS in big block capitals. [5] The restaurants offered both drive-thrus and patio ...
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Griffith is located on Texas State Highway 114, 70 mi (110 km) west of Lubbock and 2 mi (3.2 km) east of the New Mexico state line in northwestern Cochran County. [ 2 ] Education