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Karl's was originally built as a four story structure by Abram M. Edelman and featured several modern conveniences of the day, including electric elevators and plate glass windows.
Nathaniel Blackstone (brother-in-law of department store magnate J. W. Robinson) opened Blackstone's Dry Goods in 1895 when J.W. Robinson Co. (commonly known as the "Boston Store" at that time) vacated its 171–173 Spring Street location.
Broadway Leasehold Building, built in 1914, was originally designed to house street-level retail with offices for Leasehold Company above. According to the United States Department of the Interior, the architect is unknown, [1] while other sources cite the architect as an employee of Milwaukee Building Company [6] /Meyer and Holler [7] and even more sources cite Meyer and Holler directly.
Mailing's was built in 1930 and designed by S. Charles Lee, the same architect who designed the Los Angeles Theatre that this building shares its northern wall with. In 1979, when the Broadway Theater and Commercial District was added to the National Register of Historic Places, both Mailing's and Los Angeles Theater were listed as separate contributing properties in the district.
SR 111 north in Niland. The highway begins near the Calexico West Port of Entry, where Calexico connects with the Mexican city Mexicali.Prior to the port of entry's 2018 realignment, SR 111 directly connected to the border crossing, with northbound traffic entering from Mexican side of the border via Avenida Cristóbal Colón, and southbound traffic exiting onto Mexican Federal Highway 5.
The 1562 map of the Americas, created by Spanish cartographer Diego Gutiérrez, which applied the name California for the first time.. California was the name given to a mythical island populated only by beautiful Amazon warriors, as depicted in Greek myths, using gold tools and weapons in the popular early 16th-century romance novel Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián) by ...
Firefighters are hoping for a break Friday from the fierce winds that have fueled massive blazes in the Los Angeles area, killing 10 people, obliterating whole neighborhoods and setting the nation ...
Downtown Los Angeles's Palace Theatre was originally built as the third home of Los Angeles's Orpheum Circuit.Opened in 1911, the building was designed by G. Albert Lansburgh and Robert Brown Young, [5] the former of whom would later design the nearby Orpheum Theatre, Hollywood Pacific Theatre, and many other theaters across the United States.