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Baist's 1910 map of the area. ... South of the Culver Block was the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce ... 215–217 was home to the Pacific Furniture House in the 1940s.
Greater Los Angeles portal; United States portal; North America portal; History portal; 1890s; 1900s; 1910s; 1920s; ... Pages in category "1940s in Los Angeles"
The Hongwanji Temple in Kyoto confers betsuin status to their temple in Los Angeles, which is renamed as the Hompa Honwanji Los Angeles Betsuin. [30] 1932 – 1932 Summer Olympics held. 1933 March 10: 1933 Long Beach earthquake. June 6: Frank L. Shaw becomes mayor. October 12: Los Angeles Garment Workers Strike of 1933 begins.
Fletcher Bowron replaced Shaw as mayor in 1938 to preside over one of the more dynamic periods in the history of the city. His "Los Angeles Urban Reform Revival" brought major changes to the government of Los Angeles. Paramount Pictures, c. 1940. In 1950, he appointed William H. Parker as chief of police. Parker pushed for more independence ...
Parker, Dana T. Building Victory: Aircraft Manufacturing in the Los Angeles Area in World War II (2013). Sánchez, George J. Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 (Oxford University Press, 1993). Starr, Kevin. Embattled Dreams: California in War and Peace, 1940-1950 (Oxford University Press ...
Los Angeles Railway route map (cover), 1942. The system was sold in 1944 by Huntington's estate to American City Lines, Inc., of Chicago, a subsidiary of National City Lines, a holding company that was purchasing transit systems across the country. [25] The sale was announced December 5, 1944, but the purchase price was not disclosed. [26]
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Main Street enters Downtown Los Angeles passing by the edge of the Los Angeles Plaza. It continues through the Civic Center area, which is built on top of the site of the buildings — nearly all demolished — that in the 1880s through 1900s formed the city's Central Business District. At 3rd Street it enters the Historic Core district.