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Barker Brothers Building is made of steel, concrete, and brick with a pressed-brick facade.The building originally featured cornice and lugsills, but they were removed.The United States Department of the Interior described the building as "plain but restorable" when they included it as a contributing property in the Broadway Theater and Commercial District.
Dearden's was a chain of department stores based in Los Angeles that operated for 108 years. It was founded in 1909 by Edgar Dearden, an immigrant from England. Dearden's sold furniture, appliances, cookware, other home goods, jewelry watches, and perfume.
Obadiah Truax Barker had owned upholstery and mattress shops in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Grand Rapids, Michigan. [1]In 1880, Barker was visiting Los Angeles on a trip from Colorado Springs to San Jose, California, when he overheard an outraged Otto Müller at a horticultural exhibition complain about the high cost of furnishing his home from the only large furniture store in the city at the time. [1]
The descendants of Willa and Charles Bruce, who purchased the land for Bruce’s Beach in California in 1912, will now retake ownership. California seized land from a Black family 98 years ago ...
Police say a man in Los Angeles' exclusive Holmby Hills neighborhood was hiding a stash of weapons large enough to outfit an army. Huge cache of 1,000 guns seized from Los Angeles mansion in raid ...
Los Angeles, [a] often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.With an estimated 3,820,914 residents within the city limits as of 2023, [8] it is the second-most populous city in the United States, behind only New York City; it is also the commercial, financial and cultural center of Southern California.
The estimated population of unincorporated areas in Los Angeles County, California, is 1,095,592, out of a total of 10,160,000 of the entire county. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Unincorporated areas
The Occupy supporters organized as "four winds" coming in to downtown Los Angeles from the four directions, starting in Van Nuys in the north, Santa Monica in the west, Cal State Dominguez Hills in the south and East Los Angeles College in the east. [29] A General Assembly was conducted in Pershing Square.