History of Los Angeles County 1910 to 1929

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• Letters to the Editor: Debating the arrests of pro-Palestinian protesters on college campuses
• days that rocked USC: How a derailed commencement brought ‘complete disaster’
• At USC, arrests. At UCLA, hands off. Why pro-Palestinian protests have not blown up on UC campuses
• Why support the Library?
• April 24, 2024 - US university protests

The move to demolish came shortly after Pratt purchased the mid-century home in an off-market sale for $12.5 million in January 2023. The house is located in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, across the street from Pratt’s mother-in-law, former first lady of California Maria Shriver. The historic house will be replaced by a modern farmhouse designed by architect Ken Ungar, Architectural Digest reported, and is now in the early stages of construction. Until its completion, Pratt is waiting it out with his wife, Katherine Schwarzenegger, in a $32 million estate in Los Angeles’ Pacific Palisades neighborhood. A photographer was among those arrested during clashes between protesters and law enforcement on the University of Texas at Austin campus on Wednesday.

Letters to the Editor: Debating the arrests of pro-Palestinian protesters on college campuses

Los Angeles is found to have the eighth highest suicide rate among large U.S. cities in the nation, at 23.6 suicide deaths per 100,000 residents. The St. Francis Dam bursts in San Francisquito Canyon, tragically taking more than 500 lives in the resulting flood and causing $7 million in property damage ($115 million worth in 2022). It is the deadliest American engineering disaster in the 20th century. A daily air link between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens for passengers.

days that rocked USC: How a derailed commencement brought ‘complete disaster’

C.P. Rodgers makes the first transcontinental airplane flight from New York to Pasadena. He makes numerous stops along the way and spends 82 hours and 4 minutes in the air. Bessie Bruington Burke becomes the first African American to teach in Los Angeles public schools. She later goes on to become the city's first African American school principal. The first permanent film studio in Hollywood is set up by the Nestor Motion Picture Company in the Bandeau Tavern Building at the northwest corner of Sunset Boulevard and Gower Street.

At USC, arrests. At UCLA, hands off. Why pro-Palestinian protests have not blown up on UC campuses

The 11,050-foot breakwater at Los Angeles Harbor is completed. Los Angeles counts 7,599 African American residents, the largest African American urban population in the Western United States. The first motion picture studio west of Chicago is established in Long Beach by the California Motion Picture Manufacturing Company. The year opens with Los Angeles fighting to overcome the influenza pandemic that had arrived in the city in September of the previous year.

The hotel hosts the first national convention of the NAACP in the west. Christine Sterling begins the restoration of Olvera Street. The Los Angeles City Council selects 640 acres of a former wheat, barley, and lima bean field as the location for the new City of Los Angeles Airport.

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By the end of the year, as many as 2,400 influenza-related deaths are reported for the city. A brief effort to loosen the ban for the holiday season results in a second wave of influenza infections. All microfilm publications of National Archives records are for sale. You can buy either individual rolls or a complete set.

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A smaller tower to the right of the courthouse and above the very white building about dead center is the second Los Angeles High School, atop Fort Moore Hill. Its predecessor was constructed in 1872 and this version opened about two decades later and was used for about a quarter century until 1917. The first large structure to the left is one recently discussed in the post about the “quinfecta” of transportation from a 1920s-era photo on Broadway.

April 24, 2024 - US university protests

That building is the Hall of Records, who stood from 1911 to 1973, and which was recently completed when this photo was taken. A full complement of Nautical charts for waters off the coast of Los Angeles including the National Ocean Survey charts for Los Angeles and Long Beach harbors. These charts are not updated and are not for navigational use. In 2004, the house changed hands to its last owners, couple Sam and Hilda Newman-Rolfe.

Fred Cole, son of L.A.'s first garment manufacturer, introduces his first boundary-breaking swimsuit for women, the first product of what will become Cole of California. The first dynamite blast occurs on the Los Angeles Aqueduct as Owens Valley residents attempt to block further diversion of the Owens River to Los Angeles. A small army of Owens Valley residents seizes the Los Angeles Aqueduct near Lone Pine and shuts off the water flow to Los Angeles. The first airplane to ever fly around the world is built in Santa Monica. South Gate and West Covina are incorporated as cities.

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A bomb explosion, resulting in the death of 21 people, destroys the printing plant of the Los Angeles Times. Harrison Otis of the Los Angeles Times unites with Los Angeles business interests to fight the activities of trade unions. Hollywood is annexed by the City of Los Angeles in order to receive water from the city’s new water supply. Hollywood's annexation introduces the first motorized fire engine into the Los Angeles Fire Department.

A large number of African Americans from the south migrate to Los Angeles. The first overhead power lines in Los Angeles are strung by the Bureau of Power and Light. Captain G. Allan Hancock donates Hancock Park, which includes La Brea Tar Pits, to the county. Los Angeles purchases its first fireboat, the Aeolian. The photo highlighted here dates from sometime in the 1910s and looks to be from about the southeast corner of Los Angeles and 2nd streets looking towards the northwest. There are some well-known city landmarks in view, especially three in a row at the center and slightly to the left.