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Urban Light (2008) is a large-scale assemblage sculpture by Chris Burden located at the Wilshire Boulevard entrance to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). The 2008 installation consists of restored street lamps from the 1920s and 1930s. Most of them once lit the streets of Southern California. [1] [2]
In 2014, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted to end a contract with LA Works after audits found that it overcharged the county nearly $1 million for job training of jail inmates and unemployed residents. [3]
Location of Los Angeles County in California. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Los Angeles County, California.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Los Angeles County, California, excluding the cities of Los Angeles and Pasadena.
April 2, 1987 (655 W. Jefferson Blvd. University Park: Landmark large-event venue; headquarters of the Al Malaikah Temple, a division of the Shriners: 4: Aloha Apartment Hotel
A copper lamp designed by Dirk Van Erp, displayed at the De Young Museum in San Francisco A Dirk van Erp lamp at the Oakland Museum of California Dirk van Erp in his shop Dirk Koperlager van Erp (1862–1933) was a Dutch American artisan , coppersmith and metalsmith , best known for lamps made of copper with mica shades, and also for copper ...
Los Angeles County's first major wildfire of the year swiftly grew to more than 16 square miles (41 square kilometers), one day after it forced the evacuation of at least 1,200 campers, off ...
Brothers Reese Llewellyn, David Llewellyn, William Llewellyn, and John Llewellyn, of Amman Valley, Wales, [1] first organized the company in 1886. [2] The iron works, which had an anti-union leadership team, was bombed on Christmas Day 1910, most likely by Ortie McManigal, an associate of those responsible for the L.A. Times bombing two months earlier.
This was a carbon arc lamp employing alternating current, which ensured that both electrodes were consumed at equal rates. In 1876, the common council of the city of Los Angeles ordered four arc lights installed in various places in the fledgling town for street lighting. [23]