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Module:Location map/data/United States Los Angeles Central is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Los Angeles. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
The Great Western Livestock Show was held at the Los Angeles Union Stockyards from 1926 [10] until 1953. [11] Santa Fe Railroad bought out the Stock Yards Company in 1928 and eventually expanded the "Central Manufacturing District" into a 3,500 acre irregularly shaped industrial tract. [1]
Livestock from ranches in Mexico and points south were sometimes driven to American stockyards. Circa 1923 there were approximately 70 major stockyards in the United States. [5] Stockyards mostly handled cattle and pigs for beef and pork production, but occasionally served as waystations for other animals.
The "wholesale business quarter" of Los Angeles [8] was centered on Los Angeles Street around First and Second streets, New buildings were constructed in the existing Wholesale District over the next years, including one at 147-149 North Los Angeles Street for the Davenport Company, dealer in agricultural implements and heavy hardware; the ...
Rockview Farms' cattle won 175 gold medals at State and County Fairs from 1930 to 1959. [ 5 ] Peter DeGroot, who originally supplied Rockview Farms with milk, bought the dairy in 1965 when the McCandless Brothers declared bankruptcy, and expanded the operation to 6 drive-in stores, 70 home delivery routes, and 8 wholesale routes.
The following data applies to Central Los Angeles within the boundaries set by Mapping L.A.: In the 2000 United States Census, Central Los Angeles had 836,638 residents in its 57.87 sq mi (149.9 km 2), including the uninhabited Griffith and Elysian parks, which amounted to 14,458 people per square mile.
A westerly extension of the subway was then supported by many civic officials in Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, and Santa Monica, [22] [23] the three cities through which the proposed extension runs. In early 2008, the project—which is destined to terminate in Santa Monica—received $5 billion in federal funds.
Cattle drives involved cowboys on horseback moving herds of cattle long distances to market. Cattle drives were at one time a major economic activity in the American West , particularly between the years 1866-1895, when 10 million cattle were herded from Texas to railheads in Kansas for shipments to stockyards in Chicago and points east.