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Griffith Park has reopened to the public, a little over a week after the Sunset fire broke out in the area. The 4,210-acre park and its sprawling network of hiking trails opened at 8 a.m. Thursday ...
[2]: 37 The Griffith Park Zoo opened in 1912 with a grand total of 15 animals. The new zoo was built on the site of Griffith J. Griffith 's defunct ostrich farm . [ 2 ] : 35 In the mid 1920s, film producer William Nicholas Selig donated many of the animals from his studios, which he had attempted to convert into an animal theme park , to the ...
Hikers carefully find an opening along a fence at Griffith Park on Dec. 6. Some of them are angry about the barriers, saying they're an eyesore. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)
Griffith Park is a large municipal park at the eastern end of the Santa Monica Mountains, in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. The park includes popular attractions such as the Los Angeles Zoo , the Autry Museum of the American West , the Griffith Observatory , and the Hollywood Sign .
A small brush fire broke out at Griffith Park Monday afternoon, though firefighters appeared to quickly gain control of the situation. The fire was reported just after 1 p.m. at 162 Griffith Park ...
Bronson Canyon is located in the southwest section of Griffith Park near the north end of Canyon Drive, which is an extension of Bronson Avenue. In 1903, the Union Rock Company founded a quarry, originally named Brush Canyon, for excavation of crushed rock used in the construction of city streets–carried out of the quarry by electric train on the Brush Canyon Line. [1]
The original owner of the property was industrialist Griffith J. Griffith, who gifted the city of Los Angeles with 3,000 acres of land back in the 1880s. He raised ostriches on the property, and ...
During the dry summer and fall of 1933, thousands of workers financed by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation were hired to clear dry brush and to build trails and roads in Griffith Park. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] On the day of the fire, one source [ 4 ] gives an estimate of 3,780 men working in the park, for a pay of 40 cents per hour.