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Initially, he moved in with his brother and took a job as an auto mechanic. In order to earn some extra money to open his own repair shop, Edelbrock took an evening job in downtown Los Angeles parking cars at a large apartment complex. It was a chance encounter at this parking complex where he bumped into the 19-year-old Irish woman, Katherine ...
He began his career after graduating high school by going to work at Bell Auto Parts store in Bell, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. At that time he took an interest in auto racing in 1933. For a short time he was a professional auto racer, but came to realize his talents were more of building race cars and racing products than racing them.
Chief Auto Parts was a United States–based auto parts store chain that had stores located in the states of Tennessee, Texas, Nevada, Arizona, Arkansas and California. Chief was founded in 1955 in Norwalk, California, by Vern Johnson and Lorin Tuthill. The company grew to 119 stores when it was sold to Southland in 1979.
Hells Angeles founder Sonny" Barger and his then-wife Sharon after his release from jail in 1980. (Robert H Houston/Associated Press)
Warren Wilson, the former KTLA broadcast journalist who spent four decades covering some of the biggest stories in Los Angeles’ history, died Friday at his home in Oxnard, Calif. He was 90. His ...
The eccentric millionaire killed in a Los Angeles house fire last week was likely an “imposter” posing as a member of the ultra-wealthy Rothschild banking family, according to a new report.
Fred Charles Sands [1] was born to a Jewish family [2] on February 16, 1938, in Manhattan, New York City. [3] [4] [5] His father was a taxi driver. [5]He moved to Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, California, with his parents in 1945, when he was seven years old.
If you've ever held a pastel-yellow box full of Cuban pastries in Los Angeles, you've most likely tasted the legacy of Raul Porto Sr. and his family's Porto's Bakery. He died this week at 92.