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Los Angeles Museum of Natural History showing displays of prehistoric skeletons, ca.1920 During the process of development of the city, the largest fossil area was found in North America, with prehistoric animals skeletons buried in tar pits ( brea in Spanish ) (an area with leakage of tar and methane from the ground), was found during the ...
1920 Population: 576,673 city; [39] 936,455 county. Douglas Aircraft Company in business in nearby Santa Monica. [1] 1921 ... History of Los Angeles;
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; Edit; View history; ... Pages in category "1920s in Los Angeles" The following 12 pages are in this ...
The Los Angeles Aqueduct in the Owens Valley. The California Water Wars were a series of political conflicts between the city of Los Angeles and farmers and ranchers in the Owens Valley of Eastern California over water rights.
The Vernon Arena, located just south of downtown Los Angeles, California, was a major early 20th-century west coast of the United States boxing venue. For much of its history the Vernon Arena was a "pavilion"—an outdoor boxing ring surrounded by seating for spectators—but the Vernon Coliseum, which stood from 1924 to 1927, was an indoor arena with capacity to host about 8,000 people.
The 174-room Hoxton is already open, built in a 10-story Renaissance Revival-style former office building erected in the 1920s that was once the headquarters of the Los Angeles Railway streetcar line.
The history of Los Angeles began in 1781 when 44 settlers from central New Spain (modern Mexico) established a permanent settlement in what is now Downtown Los Angeles, as instructed by Spanish Governor of Las Californias, Felipe de Neve, and authorized by Viceroy Antonio María de Bucareli.
Visitors to Los Angeles often put on their list of city sights the Hollywood sign, the Venice boardwalk, the Watts Towers, and for the more adventurous and olfactory-challenged, the Farmer John ...