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The network experimented with television in the early 1930s, launching experimental station W6XAO in Los Angeles, California, on December 31, 1931. It broadcast one hour per day throughout the 1930s. In 1937, the TV and radio operations teamed up to broadcast the opening of the 27th annual Los Angeles Motor Car Dealers' Automobile Show.
Calling All Cars is an old-time radio police drama in the United States. It was broadcast on the CBS West Coast network [1] and on the Mutual-Don Lee Network [2] November 29, 1933 – September 8, 1939 and carried by transcription on stations in other areas. The program was notable for being one of the first police dramas on radio. [3]
Los Angeles Union Station is the main train station in Los Angeles, California, and the largest passenger rail terminal in the Western United States. [7] It opened in May 1939 as the Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal , replacing La Grande Station , Central Station , and Salt Lake Station .
Mobster Jack Dragna {died 1956} would go on to succeed Ardizzone as leader of the Los Angeles family. October 17 – Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years in prison for tax evasion and fined $80,000 December 18 – New York Prohibition gangster Jack "Legs" Diamond is shot to death while staying at a safe house in Albany, New York by a number of ...
By 1938, the Los Angeles Railway Yellow streetcar lines D, U, and 3 stopped in front of the building on Central Avenue. [7] [8] In 1926 voters in Los Angeles voted 51% to 49% to build a union station. All long-distance passenger services were transferred to the new Los Angeles Union Station upon that building's completion in 1939. [2]
The Gangster Squad in 1948. The Gangster Squad, later known as the Organized Crime Intelligence Division (OCID), was a special unit of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) formed in 1946 to keep the East Coast Mafia and organized crime elements out of Los Angeles, California. [1]
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This is a list of gangs whose members are associated with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) (typically deputies). Press reports indicate the LASD has had a problem with gangs since at least the 1970s which has expanded to at least 18 gangs. [1] The department has used the term "cliques" when discussing these groups. [2]