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Raymond Lee Washington (August 14, 1953 – August 9, 1979) was an American gangster, known as the founder of the Crips gang in Los Angeles. [1] Washington formed the Crips as a minor street gang in the late 1960s in South Los Angeles , becoming a prominent local crime boss .
The building is named after James Zera Oviatt (1888-1974) who, in 1909, came from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles to work as a window dresser at C.C. Desmond's Department Store. In 1912, Oviatt and a colleague, hat salesman Frank Baird Alexander, launched their partnership in men's clothing as the Alexander & Oviatt haberdashery, at 209 West ...
Originally named the El Patio Ballroom and located on the east side of Vermont Avenue between 2nd and 3rd Street, it boasted being “the largest and most famous dance hall on the West Coast.” The building featured a large mezzanine, a balcony, and a seventy-five hundred square foot patio. The dance floor could accommodate four thousand couples.
Residents in L.A.'s Fairfax District have long complained to L.A. city officials of overgrown vegetation, mounds of trash and junk. ... Raymond Gaon has owned the two-bedroom bungalow since the ...
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The takeover and mass theft were captured on security video that the Los Angeles Police Department released Thursday. ... the LAPD cracked down on street takeovers across the city and county as ...
Raymond and Esther Kabbaz High School of Lycée Français de Los Angeles. Sixty percent of Cheviot Hills residents aged 25 and older had earned a four-year degree by 2000, a high figure for both the city and the county. The percentages of residents of that age with a bachelor's degree or a master's degree were also considered high for the ...
Los Angeles fires: Before and after images reveal destruction Contributing: Christopher Cann, Terry Collins, Michael Loria, Isaiah Murtaugh, Thao Nguyen, and Jeanine Santucci