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Pickwick Book Shop was an independent bookstore located at 6741-6745 W. Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California. The store was popular with many film and literary figures, and was known as the "supermarket of books."
Parker Center, initially named the Police Administration Building or Police Facilities Building, was the former headquarters of the Los Angeles Police Department from 1955 until October 2009. It was located in Downtown Los Angeles at 150 North Los Angeles Street .
Larry Edmunds Bookshop is an independent bookstore located at 6644 W. Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California that specializes in film, television, and theater. . Containing more than 20,000 books, 6,000 original posters, and 500,000 photographs, [1] it is the last of many bookstores that once lined Hollywood Boulevard [2] [3] and was declared by film critic and historian Leonard Maltin ...
The Los Angeles Police Department operated an emergency hospital for 102 years, near downtown central Los Angeles. It was called the Central Receiving Hospital, and was always in a police building that also housed other police functions, until 1957 when it was moved to a purpose-built police building. It existed from 1868 to 1970.
Downtown Los Angeles's Fifth Street Store Building was designed by Alexander Curlett and built by Milliron's in 1927. In the building's early years, it was home to a department store that repeatedly changed its name, including Walker's, Fifth Street Store, Walker's Fifth Street Store, and in 1946 it changed to Milliron's. A $300,000 ($4.69 ...
The city of Los Angeles has accused a gun store located within the Los Angeles Police Academy of negligence and breach of contract, the latest twist in a widening scandal.
Both selections followed seismic scandals: the Los Angeles uprising in 1992 and the Rampart scandal of the late 1990s that saw more than 70 police officers implicated in unprovoked shootings ...
Filmmaker Chad Howitt chronicled The Last Bookstore and its owner, Spencer, in a short documentary titled Welcome to the Last Bookstore, released in 2016. It tells the story of how Spencer was injured as a young man and lost the use of his legs, forcing him to re-examine his life. [7] Los Angeles Film Review called the effort an "ode to ...