The build-up had created several local irrigation districts and numerous civic improvements. In addition, the Los Angeles population had increased from about 11, in to about 60, in In the first salable petroleum in California was the oil found at Pico Canyon near San Fernando.
But the real boom began in the s, when Edward L. Los Angeles became a center of oil production in the early 20th Century. By the area had derricks, and in the area near Santa Monica Boulevard and Vermont Avenue was an unruly oil shantytown. Drilling activity in the county reached new heights in the s when major finds were made in Whittier, Montebello, Compton, Torrance, and Inglewood. These three huge fields upset national oil prices and glutted existing storage facilities.
By the turn of the century almost 1, oil wells operated throughout Los Angeles. Oil production has continued down to the present throughout the Los Angeles Basin; between and some 1, wells pumped million barrels of oil from these pumps. In the early s, agriculture became an important part of the economy. Other crops grown in the County included alfalfa, apricots, asparagus, barley, hay, beans, beets, cabbage, citrus, corn, lettuce, melons, peaches, potatoes, pumpkins, squash, tomatoes, and walnuts.
The agricultural output led to other industries such as canning companies, a fruit growers association, and fruit preservers. The agricultural land gave way to development following World War II. The San Pedro harbor became operational in the late s and became the principal harbor for the trade in the county. The first steamer to visit San Pedro was the Goldhunter in The construction of a railroad from Los Angeles to the harbor in gave a fresh impetus to the development of agricultural resources in the county.
Later in the Long Beach harbor was established and the port at San Pedro was also added to give Los Angeles a position in the international trade market.
In one adobe hut stood on the site that became Hollywood. By the motion picture industry was in full swing. In the s, the advent of television led to the opening of numerous television stations. Movie attendance fell to half its previous level during this time as audiences stayed home to be entertained in their own living rooms. By the early s the television and movie industries became interdependent with much crossover from one medium to the other.
Today, each medium has found its niche. The Hollywood film has retained its position as the ultimate entertainment, but television has become the major disseminator of popular culture. Los Angeles has remained firmly in charge of American image-making. The Depression and the Midwestern drought of the s brought thousands of people to California looking for jobs.
In order to sustain future growth, the County needed new sources of water. Legitimate concerns about water supply were exploited to gain backing for a huge engineering and legal effort to bring more water to the city and allow more development.
Approximately miles northeast of Los Angeles in Inyo County, near the Nevada state line, a long slender desert region known as the Owens Valley had the Owens River, a permanent stream of fresh water fed by the melted snows of the eastern Sierra Nevadas.
Sometime between and , Los Angeles Times founder Harrison Gray Otis and his son-in-law successor, Harry Chandler, engaged in successful efforts at buying up cheap land on the northern outskirts of Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley.
Lippencott, of the United States Reclamation Service. Lippencott performed water surveys in the Owens Valley for the Reclamation Service while secretly receiving a salary from the City of Los Angeles.
Eden then resigned from the Reclamation Service, took a job with the Los Angeles Water Department as assistant to Mulholland, and turned over the Reclamation Service maps, field surveys and stream measurements to the city.
Those studies served as the basis for designing the longest aqueduct in the world. The Zoot Suit Riots were a series of violent clashes during which mobs of U. The June riots took their name from the baggy suits worn by many minority youths London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom and one of the largest and most important cities in the world.
The area was originally settled by early hunter gatherers around 6, B. Live TV. This Day In History. History Vault. Recommended for you. Bush on Los Angeles Riots. Los Angeles Riots. Outbreak of '92 Los Angeles Riots. Los Angeles Aqueduct From the time it was founded as a small settlement in the late 18th century, Los Angeles depended on its own river for water, building a system of reservoirs and open ditches as well as canals to irrigate nearby fields.
Boston: A City Steeped in U. History Boston, the largest city in New England, is located on a hilly peninsula in Massachusetts Bay. Today it has one of the most important collections of Native American art and artifacts in the United States, covering 2, years. Griffith becomes the first director to shoot film in Los Angeles. It remains the largest museum of its kind in the western United States. Take it.
She later demonstrates parachuting techniques for the U. Further annexations will continue through He charges the public 25 cents to watch films being shot, including a boxed lunch. The 30, square-foot food emporium and retail marketplace continues its mission to celebrate the myriad cuisines and cultures of Los Angeles.
Studios on Sunset Boulevard. It would wind up as one of the world's most famous movie studios, producing household names in film like Harry Potter and Batman. The orchestra played its first concert at the Trinity Auditorium, just eleven days after its first rehearsal. Today, the Ford Theatres are dedicated to presenting a calendar of music and dance events that reflect the diverse communities of LA County.
Walt Disney and his animators were regulars - his favorite table was 31, right by the fireplace and commemorated by a plaque. Today the Fair is one of the largest county fairs in North America and ranked in the Top 10 among all North American fairs and exhibitions.
Presidents: John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. At the time of its grand opening, the Biltmore was the largest hotel west of Chicago. Thirty-seven more alumni and faculty of this Pasadena institute so far will follow in his footsteps to win Nobel Prizes including Linus Pauling and Richard Feynman.
Her preaching incorporates speaking in tongues and demonstrations of faith healing. It has been populated by movers and shakers ever since and become part of a centerpiece of some of the highest concentration of real estate wealth in the world. The lady with the torch will soon be introducing Frank Capra films. The hour eatery claims to never have closed or been without a customer since it opened. The next year, the studio acquires acres of open land west of Beverly Hills for its production facilities.
Today it has the largest circulation of any Spanish-language newspaper in the United States, with more than , copies daily. Highway Roadside architecture and American popular music have never been the same since. Over the years, impresario Sid Grauman and his successors will invite dozens of top stars to leave their handprints and footprints in freshly poured cement out front. Oscar winners have been thanking the academy ever since. Today the site houses the Ace Hotel and the 1,seat Theatre at Ace.
Wings , directed by William Wellman, wins Best Picture. UCLA would go on to become one of the world's premier research universities by the late 20th century. It's an international leader in medicine, law, business, engineering, the arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences, producing 14 Nobel Prize winners among its alumni, researchers and faculty. Today it would be better known as a health maintenance organization HMO. The fourth busiest airport in the world, LAX offers more than daily nonstop flights to domestic cities, and over 1, weekly nonstop flights to dozens of cities around the world.
Now known as the Hollywood Pantages, the restored theatre hosted the Oscars from and today presents blockbuster Broadway productions. Tenth Street is renamed Olympic Boulevard. From its perch on a promontory, one can view both the skies above and the city below.
The family later opens their current location on La Brea in Today the LA area has 27 interconnecting freeways, and the East L. Interchange is the busiest in the world. One-third of U. Under executive Pete Rozelle later commissioner of the National Football League , the Rams will become the first team to capitalize on television. The lush, acre site includes the Mahatma Gandhi World Peace Memorial - a "wall-less temple" that features a thousand-year-old stone sarcophagus from China, which holds a portion of Gandhi's ashes in a brass and silver coffer.
The church is regarded as one of the foremost examples of Organic Architecture, which promotes harmony between human habitation and the natural world. Paul Getty first opens a museum of his collections to the public in Pacific Palisades.
His Getty Center, perched atop Brentwood, along with the original museum in the Palisades, would collectively later be one of the richest museums in the world.
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