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A second real estate development company purchased the town in 1887 and renamed the town Beaumont, which was incorporated on November 18, 1912. By 1927, the small city had a population of 857 with five churches, a public library , a bank, a high school, two local newspapers, several lumber yards, commercial packing houses, and a dehydrating plant.
Landmark Theatres also owned the theater chain Silver Cinemas, which primarily showed second-run movies. Down to just three cinemas entering the COVID-19 pandemic, the final of three Silver Cinemas remaining was transferred to its Landmark nameplate with the other locations closed in 2020 and 2022.
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A collection of books was already in existence due to the efforts of the Beaumont Woman's Club, which had started a subscription library in 1909. The old library association disbanded when the new library opened to the public in two rooms of the Beaumont Bank building, at the corner of Fifth and Grace, on October 1, 1911.
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The Second Street Cable Railway was the first cable car system to open in Los Angeles. [1] Opened in 1885, it ran from Second and Spring Streets to First Street and Belmont Avenue. The completed railway was 6,940 feet long, just over a mile and a quarter, with a power house constructed in the middle, at Boylston Street. [ 2 ]
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