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In 1920 Allan Hancock College was started by the Santa Maria High School District. Originally called Santa Maria Junior College, classes were held until eventually a bond was passed that allowed them to build a wing specifically for the college. Due to rising enrollment numbers in 1954, the college was moved to the former site of Allan Hancock ...
The original Allan Hancock Field was established in 1927 at another location, between Jones Street to the north, Stowell Road to the south, Bradley Road to the east and Miller Street to the west. The airport housed the Allan Hancock College of Aeronautics operated by the Hancock Foundation of Aeronautics.
George Allan Hancock (July 26, 1875 – May 31, 1965) was the owner of the Rancho La Brea Oil Company. He inherited Rancho La Brea , including the La Brea Tar Pits which he donated to Los Angeles County . [ 1 ]
Hancock Field is a former airport and military airfield about 2 miles (3.2 km) south-southeast of Santa Maria, California. Also known as Santa Maria Municipal Airport , the airport was closed about 1959 and today is the site of Allan Hancock College .
There’s a hard math behind the Los Angeles-area firestorm: When a two-story house is on fire under normal circumstances, three engines and a minimum of 16 crew members are generally dispatched ...
Firefighters were dispatched to 3 Hancock St. about 11:30 p.m., with initial reports indicating some residents were trapped. Crews encountered fire on the first floor of the three-story apartment ...
The area owes its name to developer-philanthropist George Allan Hancock, who subdivided the property in the 1920s. [3] [4] The Hancock family donated the land for the park proper in 1916 in order to preserve the tar pits; at the time the "Santa Monica electric line" was the major means of access. [5]
Alvin Olen Baldock (December 17, 1929 – September 14, 2009) was an American college football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria, California from 1959 to 1961, the College of the Sequoias in Visalia, California from 1962 to 1968, and the Los Angeles City College from 1972 to 1974, and Taft College in Taft, California from 1976 to ...