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Rancho de Los Feliz was a 6,647-acre (2,690 ha; 26.90 km 2) Spanish land concession in present-day Los Angeles County, California purportedly given in 1795 by Spanish Governor Pedro Fages to José Vicente Feliz, although there is no deed or other record.
The grant comprised what is today Los Feliz, Griffith Park, East Hollywood, and Silver Lake. [8] [9] The rancho remained in the Feliz family until 1863. [10] The area's boundaries were the Los Angeles River to the north and east, and the Santa Monica Mountains to the west. [11]
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
Throughout the city and county of Los Angeles, ... In the 1880s he bought up Rancho Los Feliz land with an eye to profits, ... a Texas kid named Bert Johnson, get hit. “Hang on, Bert, I’m ...
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 .
Could this be your happiest place on Earth? It was the house that the man himself built for himself in 1932 for $50,000. It's now on the market for $3.65 million. The 12-room mansion has a feature ...
Griffith Jenkins Griffith (January 4, 1850 – July 6, 1919) was a Welsh-born American industrialist and philanthropist.After amassing a significant fortune from a mining syndicate in the 1880s, Griffith donated 3,015 acres (1,220 ha) to the City of Los Angeles that became Griffith Park, and he bequeathed the money to build the park's Greek Theatre and Griffith Observatory.
Scientists, celebrities, politicians and thousands of admirers gathered at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles to celebrate the life and legacy of the mountain lion who prowled Griffith Park.