Wikipedia The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. It became the University of California Southern Branch in 1919, making it the second-oldest undergraduate campus of the ten-campus system after the original University of California campus in Berkeley (1873). It offers 337 u...
Wikipedia The University of Southern California (USC) is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university founded in 1880 with its main campus in the city area of Los Angeles, California. As California's oldest private research university, USC has historically educated a large number of the region's business leaders and professionals. In recent decades, the university has also lev...
Wikipedia California State University, Los Angeles ( Cal State LA ) is a public comprehensive university in the heart of Los Angeles, one of the 23 universities in the California State University (CSU) system. Cal State LA is located in the eastern region of Los Angeles, California, United States, in the University Hills district, facing the San Gabriel Mountains, at the center of Los Angeles m...
The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim are an American professional baseball team based in Anaheim, California. The Angels are a member of the West division of Major League Baseball's American League (AL). The Angels have played home games at Angel Stadium of Anaheim since 1966. The "Angels" name was continued by former film star Gene Autry out of tribute for the Los Angeles Angels, a Minor League f...
The Los Angeles Clippers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California. The Clippers compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Western Conference Pacific Division. The Clippers play their home games at the Staples Center, an arena shared with the Los Angeles Lakers of the NBA, the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National B...
Wikipedia =California State University, Northridge (also known as CSUN) is a public university in the Northridge neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States, in the San Fernando Valley. With a total enrollment of 41,548 (as of Fall 2015) it has the largest student body of the 23 campus California State University system, and is one of the largest comprehensive universities in the Sta...
Wikipedia =The Los Angeles National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery in the Sawtelle unincorporated community of the West Los Angeles neighborhood in Los Angeles County, California. Find a Grave
Los Angeles City College , known as LACC , is a public community college in East Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. A part of the Los Angeles Community College District, it is located on Vermont Avenue south of Santa Monica Boulevard. LACC offers university transferable courses. The college also offers a program known as The Theater Academy, a block program for students pursuing acting, techn...
The professional American football team Oakland Raiders played in Los Angeles from 1982 to 1994 before relocating back to Oakland. This article chronicles the team's history during their time as the Los Angeles Raiders during that period.For more information on the Los Angeles Raiders , please see the Wikipedia Article, History of the Los Angeles Raiders .
Wikipedia =Loyola Marymount University (LMU) is a private, co-educational university in the Jesuit and Marymount traditions located in the Westchester community of Westside Los Angeles, California. The university is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities and one of five Marymount institutions of higher education.Loyola Marymount University traces it...
School is an independent, co-educational university preparatory day school consisting of two campuses located in Los Angeles, California with approximately 1,600 students enrolled in grades seven through twelve.The school has its campuses in Holmby Hills and Studio City. The school is a member of the G20 Schools groupHistoryHarvard-Westlake is the product of the 1991 merger between the Harvard ...
The Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (FIDM) is a private for-profit college with multiple campuses in California. It offers degree programs in majors including fashion, entertainment, beauty, interior design, and graphic design. The college was founded in 1969 by Tonian Hohberg, the institute's president and CEO. Wikipedia
Evergreen Memorial Park & Crematory is a cemetery in the East Side neighborhood of Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, California. Evergreen has several prominent individuals of historical Southern California on its grounds. Many pioneers are interred here, names such as Bixby, Coulter, Hollenbeck, Lankershim, Van Nuys, and Workman. There are politicians, notably former Mayors of Los Angeles. The Gard...
Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery is the largest Jewish cemetery organization in California. Mount Sinai Memorial Parks and Mortuaries, owned by Sinai Temple of Los Angeles, refers to two Jewish cemeteries in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The original cemetery property is located at 5950 Forest Lawn Drive in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles. The cemetery was originally established in ...
This project seeks to collect all of the early Jewish families of Los Angeles, California.# Felix Bachman (1822 - )# Solomon Nuñes Carvalho (1815-1897)# Bernard Cohn# H. M. Cohn# Abraham Wolf Edelman# Jacob Elias# Jacob Frankfort (1810 - )# H. Goldberg# Morris Goodman (1826 - )# Ephraim Greenbaum# Emil Harris# Leopold Harris# Sigmund Hecht (1849-1927)# Herman W. Hellman # Isaias Wolf Hellman # ...
Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery is a cemetery in Los Angeles at 1831 West Washington Boulevard in the Pico-Union district, southwest of Downtown. It was founded as Rosedale Cemetery in 1884, when Los Angeles had a population of approximately 28,000, on 65 acres of land running from Washington to Venice Boulevard (then 16th Street) between Normandie Avenue and Walton and Catalina Streets, and often u...
Los Angeles Odd Fellows Cemetery is a full-service cemetery and crematorium located on Whittier Blvd between Esperanza Street and Calzona Street in the City of Los Angeles’ community of Boyle Heights. We are one block west of East Los Angeles’s border of Indiana Street. We are near the 110, 710, 5, 60, 10 and 101 freeways and just minutes from downtown Los Angeles. Our staff is available 24 ho...
Wikipedia =The Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (also known as HUC, HUC-JIR, and The College-Institute) is the oldest extant Jewish seminary in the Americas, and the main seminary for training rabbis, cantors, educators and communal workers in Reform Judaism.HUC-JIR has campuses in Cincinnati, Ohio, New York City, Los Angeles, California and Jerusalem. The Jerusalem campus is t...
Wikipedia =East Los Angeles College (ELAC) is a community college of the Los Angeles Community College District in the Los Angeles suburb of Monterey Park. Fourteen communities comprise its primary service area. With an enrollment of 34,697 students, ELAC is the largest campus in the Los Angeles Community College District. It was located in northeastern East Los Angeles before that part of unin...
Wikipedia =Alliant International University is a private, benefit corporation higher education institution based in San Diego, California. The university is also known synonymously as Alliant. It offers programs in six California campuses—in San Francisco, San Diego, Los Angeles, Irvine, Sacramento, and Fresno—and three international campuses—in Mexico City, Mexico; Tokyo, Japan; and Hong Kong....
Wikipedia =The American Jewish University, formerly the separate institutions University of Judaism and Brandeis-Bardin Institute, is a Jewish, non-denominational educational institution in Los Angeles, California.Its largest component is its Whizin Center for Continuing Education in which 12,000 students are enrolled annually in non-credit granting courses. A prominent program of the Center is...
Dr. Alpheus P. Hodges July 1, 1850-May 7, 1851 Benjamin Davis "Don Benito" Wilson May 7, 1851-May 4, 1852 John Greg Nichols May 4, 1852-May 3, 1853 Antonio Franco Coronel May 3, 1853-May 4, 1854 Stephen Clark Foster May 4, 1854-January 13, 1855 Stephen Clark Foster January 25, 1855-May 9, 1855 Dr. Thomas Foster May 9, 1855-May 7, 1856 Stephen Clark Foster May 7, 1856-September 22, 1856 ...
This project seeks to bring under one umbrella profiles of people that were key in the life of Dr. Gottfried Bloch (1914-2008), a psychoanalyst, graphologist and holocaust survivor who worked as prisoner doctor in the care of ailing inmates at several Nazi concentration camps. For more information about the in-progress documentary film about his life, visit
This project focuses on the athletes who represented Canada at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
This project focuses on the athletes who represented Canada at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.