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Downtown Los Angeles: Highrise parking garage designed by Claud Beelman and built in 1924; ... Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. July 27, 1984 3911 S. Figueroa St. ...
Pan American National Bank of East Los Angeles: Pan American National Bank of East Los Angeles: March 27, 2017 : 3620-3626 E. 1st St. East Los Angeles: 124: Parkhurst Building: Parkhurst Building: November 17, 1978
Juana de Dios Machado Alipás de Wrightington, also known as Jaunita Machado, Juana Ridington or Juana Machado (8 March 1814 – 24 December 1901) was an Alta California pioneer and nurse known as the Florence Nightingale of San Diego. [1] She was a nurse and midwife, and translator, despite being illiterate, during the Mexican-American War. [2]
The Pueblo de Los Angeles was later founded adjacent to this location. The area was granted as Rancho San Rafael to Jose Maria Verdugo in October 1784. In 1859, Julio Verdugo sold the southern tip of the rancho to Jessie D. Hunter, who had first arrived in Los Angeles in 1847 as a Captain in the Mormon Battalion during the Mexican–American ...
South Park Lofts, located in downtown Los Angeles, was built in 1924 as an eight-story parking garage. It was one of America's first parking structures, [2] and is one of the few parking garages listed in the National Register of Historic Places, having received the distinction in 2004. The building has been converted to lofts and is now known ...
Left, the chapel; right, entrance and general view, from a newspaper advertisement, 1907 Aerial view, 2008 Florence Avenue entrance, 2013. The proposed establishment of "the largest cemetery in the world" was announced in November 1905, to be "on a high strip of ground two miles southwest of Los Angeles".
Florence station is an at-grade light rail station on the A Line of the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. The station is located alongside the Union Pacific freight railroad's Wilmington Subdivision (the historic route of the Pacific Electric Railway), at its intersection with Florence Avenue, after which the station is named, in the unincorporated Los Angeles County neighborhood of Florence.
John Anson Ford (1883–1983), Los Angeles County supervisor, namesake of John Anson Ford Amphitheatre; Thomas Francis Ford (1873–1958), U.S. Congressman and Los Angeles City Council member [75] Lewis R. Foster (1898–1974), director, producer, screenwriter and composer [76] Ivor Francis (1918–1986), actor; Betty Francisco (1900–1950 ...