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August 21, 2003 (1471-1475 Havenhurst Dr. Hollywood: Courtyard apartment building designed by Arthur and Nina Zwebell in Hollywood: 8: Eddie "Rochester" Anderson House
This list of museums in Los Angeles is a list of museums located within the City of Los Angeles, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Shortly after its refounding in 1922, the Society leased Room 508 of the Wells Fargo Building (at Second and Mission) as its headquarters. [7] Subsequently, the Society moved its offices to 456 McAllister (sharing the Pioneer Hall building near City Hall with the Society of California Pioneers) in 1938 [14] and the Flood Building as a temporary home in 1955 when the Pioneer society was expanding.
Chinatown Heritage and Visitor Center. Chinese Historical Society of Southern California (CHSSC, Chinese: 南加州華人歷史學會; pinyin: Nán Jiāzhōu Huárén Lìshǐ Xuéhuì) is an historical society and organization based in Los Angeles Chinatown, California.
It is operated as a house museum by the Historical Society of Centinela Valley, and it is one of the 43 surviving adobes within Los Angeles County, California. The Adobe was the seat of the 25,000-acre (100 km 2 ) Rancho Aguaje de la Centinela , a Mexican Alta California -era land grant partitioned from the Spanish Las Californias era Rancho ...
The Better Business Bureau (BBB) is an American private, 501(c)(6) nonprofit organization founded in 1912. BBB's self-described mission is to focus on advancing marketplace trust, [2] consisting of 92 independently incorporated local BBB organizations in the United States and Canada, coordinated under the International Association of Better Business Bureaus (IABBB) in Arlington, Virginia.
Vedanta Society Old Temple: San Francisco: 1905 Hindu temple: The third floor and towers were added in 1908. [144] Oldest Hindu temple in the United States. [145] Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk: Santa Cruz: 1907 Amusement park: Oldest extant amusement park in California. The park operates the Giant Dipper, the oldest roller coaster in California ...
While Los Angeles County never faced enemy bombing and invasion, it nevertheless became an integral part of the American Theater on the night of February 24–25, 1942, during the false Battle of Los Angeles, which occurred a day after the Japanese naval bombardment of Ellwood in Santa Barbara, California, 80 miles from Los