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He moved to Los Angeles in 1893, planning to practice medicine but discovered the real estate industry was much more lucrative. [ citation needed ] By 1906 he and his two sons, Edwin Janss Sr. and Harold Janss established an investment company, creating subdivisions in Belvedere Gardens , [ 2 ] Boyle Heights , Monterey Park , and Yorba Linda .
A 1931 conference had given the GBBA the exclusive right to organize the 12,000 workers in the 21 plants of the Owens-Illinois company (which manufactured 60 percent of all glass containers in the U.S.), and the union slowly began organizing Owens-Illinois. [33]
In 1965, when Bill Brown was the director at the well-known Penland School of Crafts, he asked Bill Boysen to set up a glass studio at the facility and offer courses during their summer term. [4] This early enthusiasm for studio glass led Penland "to become the site of the founding of the Glass Art Society in the early 1970s." [3]
The kickoff took place at 2:30 p.m. with a crowd of 19,000 spectators watching in the stadium, with thousands more watching in the street. A group of 500 to 1000 people who did not want to pay $1 for a ticket gathered on the factory's roof to watch for free. [4]
Los Angeles will pay more than $21 million to settle claims by residents of a neighborhood where police bungled the detonation of a cache of illegal fireworks three years ago, injuring 17 people ...
Her works are in the permanent collection of the Museum of American Glass in Millville, New Jersey, Glasmuseet Ebeltoft, [3] and the Frauenau Glass Museum.She served on the board of directors for UrbanGlass, a glassblowing studio based in Brooklyn, from 2008 to 2018.