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A dragon decoration was salvaged from the Los Angeles Times building. The architect was William Tuntke, and construction was supervised by Tom Kemp, from Paramount Studios. [6] Gilbert Leong, who later was a prominent local architect, sculpted the statue of Kwan Yin that was set in a fountain for China City. [4]: 59 [7]
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.
The ouroboros or uroboros (/ ˌ j ʊər ə ˈ b ɒr ə s /; [2] / ˌ ʊər ə ˈ b ɒr ə s / [3]) is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon [4] eating its own tail. The ouroboros entered Western tradition via ancient Egyptian iconography and the Greek magical tradition. It was adopted as a symbol in Gnosticism and Hermeticism and most ...
The somewhat creepy yet oddly zen video, posted on Facebook by Goodshop GS, shows the two-headed and six-legged bearded dragon snacking on some insects in nearly perfect unison.
The gate has 150-year-old camphor wood from China. After being nominated by the Los Angeles Conservancy, the West Gate was designated a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument, No. 825. [1] California Governor Frank Merrimack placed a bronze tablet at the site that commemorates Chinese-American contributions to California's growth. [2]
The Chinatown Gateway Monument is installed in Chinatown, Los Angeles, in the U.S. state of California. [1] [2] The gateway is located at the south entrance to Chinatown on North Broadway, just north of Cesar Chavez Avenue, few blocks from Los Angeles City Hall. In 2020, Wilder Shaw of Thrillist described the gate as "infamous". [3]
An incident at Veterans' Barrington Park in Los Angeles sparked a legal battle between dog owners. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times) A dog-bites-woman story usually isn’t much of a story at all.
A Florida woman who allegedly snatched a three-year-old boy from his fenced-in yard and ran off down the street last week told the cops she shouldn’t be arrested because she “gave it back ...