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The tradition of Kapaemahu, like all pre-contact Hawaiian knowledge, was orally transmitted. [11] The first written account of the story is attributed to James Harbottle Boyd, and was published by Thomas G. Thrum under the title “Tradition of the Wizard Stones Ka-Pae-Mahu” in the Hawaiian Almanac and Annual for 1907, [1] and reprinted in 1923 under the title “The Wizard Stones of Ka-Pae ...
Iran (27.2%) and the United Kingdom (4.8%) were the most common places of birth for the 21.1% of the residents who were born abroad—which was a low percentage for Los Angeles as a whole. The median yearly household income in 2008 dollars was $112,927, high for the city of Los Angeles as well as the county. [3]
Brenda Rees of the Los Angeles Times said "decades of construction and reconstruction erased much of the original modern design." [ 1 ] By 2000, Crestwood Hills was a wealthy neighborhood. [ 1 ] Today's sales are typically in the multi-million dollar range, whereas when initially purchased in 1949, a typical residence was priced at twenty ...
The L.A. City Council voted to declare Marilyn Monroe's former Brentwood home a historic cultural monument, saving it from being destroyed by its latest owners.
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
Additionally, the building was listed as Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #765 in 2003. [1] In 2010, Blackstone's Department Store was converted to 82 apartments with ground-floor retail space and a subterranean parking garage. [12]
The preceding statement is incorrect and caused by a confusion of Olympic events & locations. Brentwood Country Club was known as Brentwood Country Club at the time of the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics. It appears as Brentwood Country Club at 590 Burlingame Avenue in the Los Angeles City Directory for 1933, which would have been compiled in 1932. [2]
A residents' meeting on May 20, 1957, chose the name Brentwood Glen. [5] In the same year, a half-mile frontage road which bore the name Sepulveda Boulevard on the west side of the San Diego Freeway between Ovada Place and Waterford Street was renamed Brentwood Glen.