GEORGE E. PILLSBURY. Los Angeles Born Tewksbury. Mass.. 1857. Educated public schools and Lawrence Academy. Began civil engineering in Lowell, Mass., and until 1880 was in the employ of various railroads; then removed to Mexico where, for about three years, he was a division engineer during the building of the Mexican Central Railway. In 1884 … Read more
April 4, 1900 — Bixby Land Company minutes book- , the minutes note that the company borrowed money from Farmers and Merchants Bank of Los Angeles. By February 1901 the debt had grown to $15,000, and the land company also owed the Palos Verdes Company $2,551.98 for “Sundry notes” given by tenants to that company … Read more
April 4, 1900 — Bixby Land Company minutes book- , the minutes note that the company borrowed money from Farmers and Merchants Bank of Los Angeles. By February 1901 the debt had grown to $15,000, and the land company also owed the Palos Verdes Company $2,551.98 for “Sundry notes” given by tenants to that company … Read more
14 SEP 1898 – Dinkelspiel, Towers of Gold, p.185 – In 1898, I.W. Hellman heads a syndicate of San Francisco bankers which backs Henry Huntington in his $3.5 million purchase of the Los Angeles Railway System (the LARy). The LA Times at first incorrectly reports that the Southern Pacific had bought up the private urban … Read more
Katella Deli was opened by Sam Ratman and his sons in 1964. It was originally located in what was then called The Rossmoor Medical Park but is now the Rossmoor Village Shopping Center (where Polly’s Pies is now located) but around 1985 it moved just over a mile east to its present location at the … Read more
Carrier Row was the second real estate development south of Katella Avenue. But it was originally called Los Alamitos Park and developed in three different phases after World War II. And it apparently was similar to a development called Puente Vista in the West Covina area. This article comes from then May 8, 1955 Los … Read more
Carrier Row was the second real estate development south of Katella Avenue. But it was originally called Los Alamitos Park and developed in three different phases after World War II. And it apparently was similar to a development called Puente Vista in the West Covina area. This article comes from then May 8, 1955 Los … Read more