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The 28th Street YMCA, also sometimes referred to as the "Colored YMCA", was a milestone for the city's African American community. Many recreational facilities, including public swimming pools, were racially segregated in the 1920s, and the 28th Street YMCA provided a gymnasium, swimming pool, and 52 dormitory rooms on the upper floors. [3] [4] [5]
The Jerusalem YMCA housed the city's first heated swimming pool and first gymnasium with a wooden floor. The first concert broadcasts of the Voice of Israel radio station were transmitted from the YMCA auditorium. In 1947, the YMCA was the venue of the UNSCOP talks leading up to the UN Partition Plan. [90]
The Los Angeles Department of Parks was organized in 1889. [3] The Los Angeles Playground Commission was organized by the city council in 1904 as an unpaid five-person commission; the commissioners had authority to hire a superintendent and staff. [4] Arabella Page Rodman served as president from the time of its organization. [5]
Henry Gaylord Wilshire was born June 7, 1861, in Cincinnati, Ohio. [1] He moved to Los Angeles, California in 1884. [2]In 1895 he began developing 35 acres (140,000 m 2) stretching westward from Westlake Park for an elite residential subdivision.
In May 2024, the city of Los Angeles adopted a Fiscal Year 2024 - 2025 budget that cut the appropriations for the fire department by $17.6 million from the previous year.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who has been away on a taxpayer-funded trip to Africa as a member of a Biden administration delegation, recently cut the fire department’s budget by $17.6 million.
Baltimore, Maryland, had its first YMCA in 1852, a few blocks west of Charles Street with later an extensive Victorian-style triangular structure of brick with limestone trim with two towers at the northwest and southwest ends and two smaller cupolas in the center, built by 1872–73 on the northwest corner of West Saratoga and North Charles ...
Blumenfield chairs the city's budget committee. Bass' budget proposed $31.7 million for Animal Services for the fiscal year starting July 1, an 18% increase over this year's budget for the department.