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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.
Frank H. McCourt Jr. (born August 14, 1953) is an American business executive and philanthropist. [1] [2] As of 2023, he is the executive chairman and former CEO of McCourt Global, [3] owner of major French football club Olympique de Marseille and founder and executive chairman of international non-profit Project Liberty. [3]
Los Angeles Consolidated Electric Railway taken over by bondholders and renamed the Los Angeles Railway [29] 1896 May – Congress approves $2,900,000 for deep-water harbor at San Pedro. [1] 1897 – Los Angeles Country Club founded. 1898 September 1: Henry E. Huntington and Isaias W. Hellman syndicate purchase Los Angeles Railway and begin ...
Los Angeles County, officially the County of Los Angeles and sometimes abbreviated as LA County, is the most populous county in the United States, with 9,663,345 residents estimated in 2023. Its population is greater than that of 40 individual U.S. states .
In 1892–1893 Ferguson was the complainant in an unsuccessful suit against the City of Los Angeles to halt the sale of bonds that financed the purchase of the private Los Angeles Water Company, eventually turning it into a municipal utility. [2] He was on the first board of directors of the Union Bank of Savings in Los Angeles in 1893. [3]
Edison Building, 601 West Fifth Street, Los Angeles, designed by Allison & Allison [6]. The origins of the company lie with the grand scheme of business magnate Henry E. Huntington and hydraulic engineer John S. Eastwood, developed around 1908, for a vast complex of reservoirs to be constructed in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of central California.
New Times LA was formed on August 22, 1996, by the purchase and merger of the Los Angeles View and the Los Angeles Reader. [2] The staff members of both papers were fired during the formation of the paper. [3] The editor-in-chief for its entire run was Rick Barrs. Writer Jill Stewart was the paper's controversial political columnist.
With the support of the Los Angeles Times, a special LAPD Red Squad arrested so many strikers that the city's jails were soon filled. Broadway in the Historic Core 1917. Some 1,200 dock workers were corralled in a special stockade in Griffith Park. The Times wrote approvingly that "stockades and forced labor were a good remedy for IWW terrorism."