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The Hadassah Community College, Israel's first American-style community college, opens in the Brandeis Vocational Center complex with 124 day and 84 evening students (renamed Hadassah College Jerusalem [HCJ] in 2006). The Alice Seligsberg Comprehensive High School merges with Brandeis (see 1944) to become the co-ed Hadassah Seligsberg-Brandeis ...
Chet Holifield Federal Building Hawaii Loa College 5900 Wilshire, Los Angeles. 5900 Wilshire Tower, Los Angeles (designed by Gin Wong) Bank of America, Whittier, California; Eastern Airlines Terminal, Atlanta International Airport; Harbor Justice Center, Irvine, California; Hawaii Loa College, Oahu, Hawaii; Library, University of Cincinnati
Spring Street now runs west of this site, which is part of City Hall. Jones Block. Built 1882 or -3 [3] and commissioned by Doria Deighton-Jones, [4] demolished in the 1920s to create the City Hall block. Post-1890 numbering 171–179 and 201 N. Spring St., [5] Tenants included: Los Angeles Herald offices and steam printing plant through 1888 [6]
The Hillview was founded in 1917 by movie moguls Jesse L. Lasky, co-founder of Paramount Pictures, and his brother-in-law Samuel Goldwyn, co-founder of MGM.Designed by the Tifal brothers in the Mediterranean Revival style, the building was Hollywood's first apartment complex built specifically to accommodate actors and from 1917 to 1922 was the tallest building in Hollywood.
The sprawling Los Angeles Community College District extends across a 900-square-mile area of Los Angeles County, stretching from San Pedro to San Fernando and from Malibu to Monterey Park. Its ...
The Crank House sits on land, the Fair Oaks Ranch, once owned by Eliza Griffin Johnston, the widow of Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston.Following the death of her husband at the Battle of Shiloh in April 1862, Eliza and her children came to Southern California at the urging of her brother, John S. Griffin.
Placita Dolores, where from 1888 until the 1950s, Los Angeles Street used to run a short block north of the Plaza to terminate at Alameda St. When it was extended past the Plaza in 1888, [1] Los Angeles Street terminated one short block north of the Plaza at Alameda Street. Now, Los Angeles Street turns east at the north side of the Plaza to ...
In 1892 Frederick H. Rindge purchased the 13,300-acre (5,400 ha) Spanish land grant Rancho Topanga Malibu Sequit or "Malibu Rancho". [2] He later expanded it to 17,000 acres (6,900 ha)) as the Rindge Ranch, which encompasses present day Malibu, California, and Rhoda May ran it, its oil derrick, and railroad after Frederick's death, also founding the Rindge Dam, Malibu Potteries, and what ...