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Rogers built his ranch, where he lived with his wife Betty and their three children, Will Jr., Mary and James, in what is now the Los Angeles neighborhood of Pacific Palisades, The 31-room ranch house, which included 11 baths and seven fireplaces, was surrounded by a stable, corrals, riding ring, roping arena, golf course, polo field—and riding and hiking trails that gave visitors views of ...
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
Across town, on the northern edge of Los Angeles, another fire broke out in Eaton Canyon, near Pasadena, quickly consuming 200 acres later in the night, according to Angeles National Forest officials.
Spahn Ranch, also known as the Spahn Movie Ranch, was a 55-acre (22.3 ha) movie ranch in Los Angeles, California. For a period it was used as a ranch, dairy farm and later movie set during the era of westerns. After a decline in use for filming by the 1950s, its owner George Spahn established a stable for renting horses for riding on the varied ...
Canoga Park is a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles, California.Before the Mexican–American War, the district was part of a rancho, and after the American victory it was converted into wheat farms and then subdivided, with part of it named Owensmouth as a town founded in 1912.
Morehart later sold 86.6 acres of the property, including Murphy Ranch, to the city of Los Angeles in 1972. He donated half and received $478,000 for the other half. Despite being so far from the city, it remains a Los Angeles city park to this day (2024). The Mandeville Canyon fire of 1978 destroyed most of the structures. The large water tank ...
The B'nai B'rith Lodge on South Union Avenue in Westlake served as a hub for the Jewish community and later as the heart of the labor movement in L.A. (Michael Blackshire / Los Angeles Times)
Early houses were designed by renowned architects Wallace Neff (1895–1982), Paul R. Williams (1894–1980), A. Quincy Jones (1913–1979), Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) and Harold Levitt (1922–2003). [8] Allen Siple (1900–1973) acted as the supervising architect. [13] By 1981, some houses were remodeled, blocking their neighbors' views ...