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Urban Light (2008) is a large-scale assemblage sculpture by Chris Burden located at the Wilshire Boulevard entrance to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). The 2008 installation consists of restored street lamps from the 1920s and 1930s. Most of them once lit the streets of Southern California. [1][2]
In February, the Los Angeles City Council created a task force with the Police Department and the Bureau of Street Lighting and established a rewards program to encourage the public to submit ...
In New York, more than 1,600 oil lamps were in use as city street lights in 1809. [1] The city had started using spermaceti oil, which burned more brightly than candles, in its street lamps from as early as 1792. [1] Philadelphia was close behind during this period, with 1,100 street lamps. [1]
A street light, light pole, lamp pole, lamppost, streetlamp, light standard, or lamp standard is a raised source of light on the edge of a road or path. Similar lights may be found on a railway platform. When urban electric power distribution became ubiquitous in developed countries in the 20th century, lights for urban streets followed, or ...
The city is having a three-day celebration to mark the completion of the new bridge connecting Boyle Heights and the downtown Arts District. Photos: L.A.'s new 6th Street Viaduct, the long-awaited ...
The Salt Box. August 6, 1962. 339 S. Bunker Hill Ave. 34°3′38.34″N 118°14′43.4″W / 34.0606500°N 118.245389°W / 34.0606500; -118.245389 (5. The Salt Box) Bunker Hill. Saltbox home that was moved to Heritage Square and then destroyed by fire; delisted January 1, 1969. 6.
People in Los Angeles rely on cars as the dominant mode of transportation, [1] but since 1990 the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority has built over one hundred miles (160 km) of light and heavy rail serving more and more parts of Los Angeles and the greater area of Los Angeles County; Los Angeles was the last major city in ...
Los Angeles City Hall, completed in 1928, is the center of the government of the city of Los Angeles, California, and houses the mayor's office and the meeting chambers and offices of the Los Angeles City Council. [ 5 ] It is located in the Civic Center district of downtown Los Angeles in the city block bounded by Main, Temple, First, and ...