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Sepulveda station in Van Nuys and Expo/Sepulveda station in West Los Angeles both bear the name of the family. Sepulveda Pass, which passes through the Santa Monica Mountains, connects Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley, alongside Sepulveda Dam, are both named for the family. Sepulveda, Los Angeles, a neighborhood in the San Fernando ...
Sepulveda Boulevard was formerly the longest street in the city and county of Los Angeles, with the Los Angeles Times reporting in 2006 that it was around 42.8 miles (68.9 km) in length. [1] The City of El Segundo has since renamed their portion SR 1 Pacific Coast Highway.
By 1882, ownership of the land had passed from the Sepulveda family through various mortgage holders to Jotham Bixby of Rancho Los Cerritos, who leased the land to Japanese farmers. [10] Frank Vanderlip, representing a group of wealthy east coast investors, purchased 25 square miles of land on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in 1913 for $1.5 million ...
The Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce is Southern California's largest not-for-profit business federation, representing the interests of more than 235,000 businesses in L.A. County, more than 1,400 member companies and more than 722,430 employees.
He was elected a county judge in 1863 or 1869 and a district judge in 1874 or 1875. He became one of the first two Superior Court judges for Los Angeles County in 1879, the other being Volney E. Howard. [1] [2] [4] [5] In 1872, he was a member of the first governing board for the Los Angeles Public Library system. [6]
As Los Angeles firefighters faced down the most destructive blaze in the city’s history, they ran out of water. “The hydrants are down,” a firefighter said over the radio, according to the ...
Sepúlveda's eldest son, Juan José Sepúlveda (1764–1808), and his fifth son, Francisco Sepúlveda °(1775–1853), became progenitors of two distinguished branches of the family. Sepulveda Boulevard, the longest street in the City and County of Los Angeles, is named for the Sepúlveda family.
Authorities say the teenager and his two adult accomplices later admitted to breaking into multiple homes, part of a growing trend of "burglary tourism" from South America. The Los Angeles Police ...