(Where more than one page number is given, the first number is the principal reference.)
Abbott, William, 128
Adohr Milk Farms, 381
Adult Education Program, 64-65
Adult Evening College, 65
Agua Caliente, 137
Aguilar, Isidro, 350
Airports: California National Guard, 180; Clover Field, Santa Monica, 272; Grand Central Air Terminal, Glendale, 212; Long Beach Municipal, 252; Los Angeles Municipal, 356; Union Air Terminal, Burbank, 389, 101, 207; U. S. Airbase, Navy, 224
Alessandro Valley, 331
Alexandria Hotel, 160
Alligator Farm, 171
Alvarado, Governor Juan Bautista, 34, 355
Ambassador Hotel, 182
American Colony, 241
American Federation of Labor, 218
American Federation of Radio Artists, 100
American Legion, 55
American rule, 40-44
Anderson, G. M. (Broncho Billy), 73
Angeles National Forest, 296-99, 19, 302, 402
Angel’s Flight, 157
Annie Laurie Wishing Chair, 210
Antelope Valley, 395-96
Anza, Juan Bautista de, bust of, 185
Aqueducts: Colorado River, 51, 52, 315; Los Angeles, 394, 51-52, 58
Arcadia, 281
Architecture, 103-11; Adobe of California, 104; Churches, 109; Frank Lloyd Wright, 108; Mediterranean Style, 107; Monterey Style, 107; Spanish Colonial Style, 104
Armory, State, 191
Armory, U. S. Naval and Marine Corps Reserve, 174-75
Armstrong, Henry, 139
Army, 220, 222, 54, 55, 204, 331, 391
Army of the Californians, 38
Arrowhead Hot Springs, 292
Artand Artists, 124-27
Art Gallery, Los Angeles City Hall, 148
Assembly Plants: Aircraft, 57; automobile, 47
Astronomers’ Monument, 126
Atherton, Gertrude, 121
Austin, John C., no, 179
Automobile Club of Southern California, 188
Auto Races, midget, 140
Avalon, 369-70
Avila, Antonio, 355
Avila, Bruno, 355
Ayuntamiento, Los Angeles, 33
Baker Building, 151
Baker, Colonel Robert S., 267
Baldwin, E. J. (Lucky), 280
Baldwin Hills, 12
Baldwin Lake, 294
Ballestros, Carlos, 37
Banning, Hancock, 368
Banning, Phineas, 368, 47, 213, 217, 314
Barnsdall Residence, 108
Baseball, professional, 139-40
Basketball, 140
Battles: Cahuenga Pass, 341; the Mesa, 39; San Gabriel, 39; San Pascual, 38, 39
Battle of Flowers, 135
Baylis, Dr. J, N., 292
Beaches: California State, 386; Capistrano, 350; El Morro, 365; Emerald Bay, 365; Hermosa, 357; Huntington, 361; Laguna, 365; Las Flores, 385; Las Tunas, 385; Long Beach, 238-42, 101; Newport-Balboa, 361, 13, 140; Ocean Park, 266; Redondo, 357; Santa Monica, 276; 273; Seal, 359; Sunset, 360; To panga, 384.
Beale, Lieutenant Edward F., 314, 38
Bear Flag Republic, 3
Bear Flag Revolt, 36
Bear Valley Mutual Water Company, 294
Beard House, 108
Bee Rock, 180
Beethoven Statue, 157
Behymer, L. E., 114
Belasco Theatre, 130
Bell, Major Horace, 118, 113, 119, 217
Belvedere Gardens, 340
Bernheimer Oriental Gardens, 386
Bethlehem Shipbuilding, 225
Beverly Hills Hotel, 205
Beverly Hills Theatre, 132
Beverly-Wilshire Hotel, 201
Bidwell, John, 34
Big Bear City, 294
Biltmore Hotel, 158
Biltmore Theatre, 131
Birdsall, Reverend Elias, 70
Bixby, Llewellyn, 253
Blondeau Tavern, 229
Board of Education, 63-64, 66, 85
Board of Supervisors, 63
Boggs, Francis, 73
Boricia, Diego de, 345
Botanical Gardens, 279
Boulder Canyon Project Act, 52
Bouquet Canyon, 394
Bowron, Mayor Fletcher, 160
Boxing, 139
Boyle Heights, 169
Brea Canyon, 345
Breakwaters: Santa Monica, 266; San Pedro, 216, 222
Brier, Reverend James W., 68
Brown, F. E., 311
Brown, John (Lean John), 36-37
Buena Park, 337
Building code, Los Angeles County, 58
Bullock’s-Wilshire, 182
Burbank Theatre, 130
Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 381, 122
Burruel Point, 337
Bustamente, Francisco, 62
Butterfield Stage Line, 334
Caballeria Collection of Paintings, 172
Cabrillo, Juan Rodriguez, 25, 46, 220, 367
Cahuenga Indians, 180
Cahuenga Treaty, 208
Cajalco Dam and Reservoir, 334
Cajon Post Office, 402
Calabasas, 382
Calavo Growers packing house, 166
California Battalion, 36-39
California current, 15
California Fruit Growers Exchange, 49-50, 46
California Institute of Technology, 260-61, 13, 66
California Walnut Growers Association, 163
Camels, 314
Camera Obscura, Santa Monica, 271
Camp of Crespi-Portola, 26
Camp Rincon, 304
Camp Seeley, 292-93
Camphor Tree, 307
Campo de Cahuenga, 380
Canals, Venice, 354
Canfield, Charles A., 45
Carmelita Garden, 262
Carrillo, Jose Antonio, 36, 39, 341
Carrillo, Ramon, 37
Carrillo’s gun, 37
Carson, Christopher (Kit), 38
Carthay Center Parkway, 185
Carthay Circle Theatre, 185
Casa Adobe de San Rafael, 213
Casa la Golondrina, 154
Castellammare, 386
Cathedral Canyon, 317
Cathedral Oak marker, 296
Catholic Welfare Bureau, 72
Central Casting, 84-85
Central manufacturing district, 57
Cerritos Channel, 216, 224, 250
Chaffey, George B. and W. B., 309
Chamber of Commerce, Los Angeles, 44-45, 49-50, 55
Chandler, Harry, 99
Channel Islands, 11
Chaparral, 19
Chapman, A. B., 347
Chapman, Joseph, 34
Charitable organizations, 72
Chavez, Julian, 174
Chavez Ravine, 174
Cherry Festival, Beaumont, 313
Chester Place, 188-89
Chicken ranching, 396
China City, 154
Chinchilla Farm, 355
Chinese, 3, 156; massacre, 41; Pasadena, 257; temples, 70
Christian Oak, 307
Christmas Tree Lane, 263-64
Chrysler Motors plant, 167
Churches: African Methodist, 70; All Saints Episcopal, Beverly Hills, 200; All Saints Episcopal, Pasadena, 258; Angelus Temple, 176-77, 71, 72; B’nai B’rith Temple, 183, 69, 126; Chinese Temple, 70; Christ Faith Mission, 395; Church of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels, 152, 67; Church of the German Baptist Brethren, 62, 283; Church of the Good Shepherd, Beverly Hills, 200; Church of the Holy Virgin Mary (Russian Orthodox), 177-78; Church of the Open Door, 159; Daisha Mission (Buddhist), 156; First Church of Christ Scientist, Beverly Hills, 201; Friends Church, Whittier, 341; Hongwanji Buddhist Temple (Japanese), 157; Immanuel Presbyterian, 182; Japanese, 70; Kong Chew Buddhist Temple, 156; Little Church of the Flowers, 210; Our Lady of Lourdes, 170; Our Lady of the Angels, 105; Peoples Independent Church of Christ, 72; Plaza Church, 68, 152; Reformed New Testament Church, 68; Saint Francis Chapel, 330; Second Church of Christ Scientist, 189, 109; St. Anne’s Chapel, Santa Monica, 272; St. Athanasius (Episcopalian), 70; St. Elizabeth, Pasadena, 264; St. James Episcopal, South Pasadena, 109; St. John’s Episcopal, 188; St. Vibiana’s Cathedral, 150-51, 68; St. Vincent de Paul, 188; Wee Kirk o’ the Heather, 210; Westminster Presbyterian, Pasadena, 264; Wilshire Boulevard Christian, 182; Wilshire Methodist, 183; Wilshire Boulevard Temple Synagogue, 110
Cities, Towns and Villages: Alber-hill, 333; Alhambra, 322; Anaheim, 346, 337; Arcadia, 281; Azusa, 282; Baldwin Park, 306; Banning, 313-14; Bassett, 325; Beaumont, 313; Belvedere Gardens, 340; Beverly, 198; Beverly Hills, 197-205, 6, 11; Big Bear City, 294; Brea, 345; Buena Park, 337; Burbank, 388-96; Cabazon, 315; Canoga Park, 381-82; Cathedral City, 317; Chats-worth, 382; Chino, 328; Claremont, 283-84, 66; Colton, 311; Compton, 58-59; Corona, 335; Covina, 306; Crestline Village, 292; Cucamonga, 285; Culver City, 6, 351-53; Dana Point, 366; Devore, 402; Doheny Park, 366, 350; Downey, 338; Duarte, 282; Edendale, 73; El Mo-dena, 347; El Monte, 324-25, 69; El Segundo, 356-57; Elsinore, 333; El Toro, 347; Encino, 381; Flintridge, 296; Fontana, 286; Fullerton, 345; Girard, 381; Glendale, 387; Glendora, 282; Goodhope, 332; Guasti, 309; Hemet, 331-32, 120; Highland Park, 121; Hollywood, 227-37, 10; Huntington Beach, 361; Indian Wells, 317; Indio, 321; Inglewood, 355-56; Irvine, 348; La Canada, 296; Laguna Beach, 365-66; La Habra, 344; Lake Arrowhead Village, 293; La Verne, 283; Little Rock, 399; Long Beach, 238-53, 58, 60; Los Nietos, 338; Manhattan Beach, 357; Mira Loma, 328; Monrovia, 281; Monterey Park, 306; Newhall, 393; Newport Beach, 361; North Hollywood, 380; Norwalk, 337; Ocean Park, 266; Olinda, 345; Olive, 336; Ontario, 308-09, 328; Orange, 346-47; Palmdale, 397, 20; Palms, 353; Palm Springs, 316; Pasadena, 254-64, 6, 6, 38, 139; Pearblossom, 399; Perris, 331; Pico, 340; Pine Knot, 294; Playa del Rey, 354-55; Pomona, 307, 328; Prado, 336; Puente, 326; Red-lands, 311-12; Rialto, 286; Riverside, 329-31; Roscoe, 391; Rose-mead, 324; San Bernardino, 286-92, 402; San Dimas, 282-83; San Fernando, 391-92, 6, 35; San Gabriel, 322-23, 130; San Jacinto, 332; San Juan Capistrano, 349; San Marino, 277-79, 22; San Pedro, 214-26, 6, 37, 38, 47, 48; Santa Ana, 347-48; Santa Monica, 265-73, 387, 6; Saugus, 394; Seal Beach, 359; Serra, 350; Sherman Oaks, 381; Sierra Madre, 281; Signal mill, 242-45; South Gate, 338; South Pasadena, 295; Spadra, 327; Tarzana, 381; Torrence, 358; Truxton, 267; Tustin, 348; Universal City, 380, 6; Upland, 284-85; Valyermo, 399; Van Nuys, 380-81; Venice, 354-55, 140; Vernon, 57; Vista del Mar, 357; Walnut, 326; West Covina, 306; Westwood Village, 204, 63; Whittier, 341; Wilmington, 223-26, 6, 47-48, 215, 217
City Halls: Beverly Hills, 201, 198; Los Angeles, 145, 103; Pasadena, 258; San Pedro, 219; Santa Monica,
City Water Company, 51
Civic Auditorium, Pasadena, 258
Civic Centers: Beverly Hills, 201;
Long Beach, 245; Los Angeles, 145, 110; Pasadena, 257-58; San Pedro, 219
Clark, William A., Jr., 113
Cleveland National Forest, 347
Clifton Cafeteria, 160
Climate, 14
Clinton, Clifford E., 160
Coachella Valley, 315-21
Coast Guard Pier, 219-20
Coca-Cola bottling plant, 164
Coffee products, 162
Coldwater Canyon, 333
Coliseum War Memorial, 55
Colorado Lagoon, Long Beach, 251
Colorado River, 52
Colorado-Street Bridge, 262
Columbia Square, 232
Columbia Steel, 358
Condor, California, 298
Congress of Industrial Organizations, 218
Congress, U.S.S., 38
Consolidated Steel, 167
Corner Oak, 295-96
Coronel Collection, California relics, 192
Coronel, Don Antonio F., 120
Corrigan, Douglas, 212
Cota, Dona Rafaela, 241
Craig shipbuilding plant, Long Beach, 250
Crespi, Fray Juan, 26, 117, 266
Cronenwett Tropical Plantation, 281
Crosby, Bing, 116
Cucamonga Water Company, 286
Cucamonga Winery, 285
Cudahy Packing, 162
Curtiss-Wright Technical Institute, 212
Custom House and Post Office, San Pedro, 219
Cyane, U.S.S., 36
Dalton, Henry, 282
Dana, Richard Henry, 366, 46, 117-18
Danube, brig, 217
Date culture, 317-21
Deadman’s Island, 37
Deep-sea fishing, 140-41
Department of Recreation, Camps and Playgrounds, 304
Devil’s Gate Dam, 263
Devil’s Punch Bowl, 400
Disney, Walt, 389-90, 77-78, 127, 178
Doheny, Edward L., 45, 176, 188-89, 190, 345, 350.
Dominguez Hills, 11
Dominguez, Juan Jose, 28
Doty, Captain John, 393
Douglas Aircraft, 272-73, 109, 266, 356
Downey, John G., 338
Downtown Section, 56
Drum Barracks, 223
Drunkard, 132
Dumetz, Padre Francisco, 392
Earl Carroll Theatre-Restaurant, 232
Earthquakes: Long Beach, 242, 58, 101; Los Angeles, 58, 13; San Juan Capistrano Mission, 350
Easter Sunrise services, 329
Echeandia, Governor, 61
Education: 62-66 (see Schools)
Egyptian Theatre, 233
El Camino Watering Trough, 154
El Capitan Theatre, 131
Eldoradoville, site of, 303
Elizabeth Lake, 11
El Modena, 347
El Monte, 69 “Elopement Bell,” 152
El Paseo de los Angeles, 153
Elysian Hills, 11
Emerald Bay, 365
EPIC Movement, 59
Escondido Canyon, 395
Exhibit Hall, 301
Express, Los Angeles, 98
Fages, Governor Pedro, 240, 28, 169, 338, 402
Fairbanks, Douglas, 76
Fauna, 15-19
Feast of the Angels, 135
Federal Art Project (W.P.A.), 181, 236
Federal Building, 148
Federal Housing Projects, 110
Federal Music Project (W.P.A.), 115-16
Federation of Jewish Welfare Organizations, 72
Feliz, Corporal Vincent, 28
Figueroa, Governor Jose, 32, 61, 345
Figueroa Playhouse, 131
Figueroa, Ramon, 189
Firestone, tire and rubber, 57, 338
Fishing and canning, 225
Fishing, sport, 370-72
Flaco, Juan, 36
Flora, 19-23
Flores, Captain Jose Maria, 36-39, 295, 380
Football, 138-39
Ford Motor assembly plant, 224
Forest Lawn Memorial Park, 209
Fort Hill, 36
Fortieth U. S. Army Division, 54, 55
Fort MacArthur Reservation, 220, 222
Fort Moore, 39
Fort Moore Place, 36
Forty-niner Statue, 185
Fox, William, 77
Franciscan Fathers, 112
Frank Wiggins Trade School, 65
Fremont Gate, 174
Fremont, Lieutenant -Colonel John Charles, 39, 35-36, 174, 208, 295, 380, 392
Game Conservation, 15
Gant, John, 34
Garces, Francisco, 402
Garland, Hamlin, 122
Gaslight, first in Los Angeles, 41
Geology: Archean Period, 12; Jurassic Period, 12; La Brea Pits, 183-84, 26, 181; Miocene Epoch, 13-14; Pleistocene Epoch, 13; Pliocene Epoch, 13-14; Quarternary Period, 12; Tertiary Period, 12
Georges Gap, 298
Gillespie, Lieutenant Archibald H., 36-37
Gilmore Field, 140
Glendale, 206-13
Glendale Civic Auditorium, 213
Glendale Encinal, 208
Glendora, 282
Glen Ivy Hot Springs, 333
Gold, first discovery of, 303
Golden State Dairy, 164
Goodhope Mine, 332
Goodrich, tire and rubber, 57
Goodwill Industries, 72
Goodyear, tire and rubber, 168, 57
Governor Mine, 395
Grand Opera House, 128
Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, 233
Greek Theatre, 179
Griffith, Colonel Griffith J., 179
Griffith Observatory and Planetarium, 179
Grunion, 18-19
Guasti Italian vineyard, 309
Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus Quarters, 306
Haiwee Reservoir, 51
Hall of Justice, Los Angeles, 148-49
Hall of Records, Los Angeles, 149, 126
Hancock, George Alan, 184
Hancock, Major Henry, 198
Hangman’s Tree, 382
Haraszthy, Count Augustin, 311
Harbor, The: San Pedro and Wilmington, 214-26
Harrison Art Collection, 192
Hart, William S., 393
Headlee’s Mountain Club, 304
Hebrew Benevolent Society, 72
Hemet Reservoir, 333
Heroic School, 124
Highland Springs, 313
Historic Houses: Adobe los Alamitos, Long Beach, 251-52; Adobe los Cerritos, Long Beach, 252; Alvarado Adobe, Pomona, 308; Amestoy Adobe, 381; Avila Adobe, 153; Casa Adobe de San Rafael, 213; Casa de Adobe, 172; Casa la Golondrina, 154; Centinela Adobe, 355; Church of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels, 152; Downey Adobe, 338; El Alisal, 173, 121; Figueroa Adobe, 189; Flores Adobe, 295; General Banning House, 223; Government House, 105; Grapevine Adobe, San Gabriel, 324; Hugo Reid Adobe, 280; La Casa del Gobornador Pio Pico, 340-41; La-Casa Vieja de Lopez, San Gabriel, 324; Las Tunas Adobe, San Gabriel, 324; Lugo House, 153; May Place, San Gabriel, 324; Miguel Leonis Adobe, 382; Natick Hotel, 150; Palomares Tavern Adobe, Pomona, 308; Phillips House, 327; Pico Adobe, 391; Pico House, 151, 105; Pioneer House, 346; Plaza Church, 152; Temple Adobe, 69; Verdugo Adobe, Glendale, 213; Vigare Adobe, San Gabriel, 324; Workman Homestead, 325
Hollywood American Legion Stadium, 139
Hollywood Cemetery, 237
Hollywood Hills, 131
Hooverville, 303
Horse-Racing Board, 137
Horticulture: Avocados, 342-44; Citrus, 49, 288-92, 355; first navel orange grove, 330; grape growing, 309-12, 346; Hart Citron Experimental Ranch, 344; orange groves, 19, 23, 289-91; parent navel orange tree, 330; State Experimental Citrus Station, 331; Sunny Hills Citrus Ranch, 345
Hospitals: Arrowhead Hot Springs, 292; Cedars of Lebanon, 72; County, 109; Los Angeles General, 170; Los Angeles Orthopaedic, 187-88; Norwalk State, 337; Orange County, 346; Osteopathic, 170
Hughes, Rupert, 122
Hunt, Captain Jefferson, 286
Huntington Beach oil field, 57
Huntington Gardens, 22
Huntington, Henry E., 278-79
Huntington Hotel, 261
Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, 278-79
I. Magnin Building, 182
Immigration Station, 219
Independence Day, first celebration, 39
Indian Village, 332
Indians, 124, 40, 61; Agua Caliente, 316; artifacts, 373, 174; Cahuenga, 180; Cahuilla, 329; caves, 317; early music, 111-12; exhibits, 173; Ga-brielino, 373, 24; Glidden Museum, 373; Guachama Village, 286; Indian Museum, 334; legends, 292; Mococahuenga, 180; Palm Springs Reservation, 317; Piute, 286; Santa Catalina Island, 367; Serrano, 329; Shoshone, 285, 367; Soboba Reservation, 332; Tahquitz Bowl, 316-17; Yang-na, 24-25, 28, 40, 145, 266
Inglewood, 355-56
Inglewood Fault, 13
Inglewood Park Cemetery, 356
Interstate Aircraft factory, 356
Iowa Picnic, Long Beach, 250, 240
Irvine Ranch, 348
Jackson, Helen Hunt, 119-20, 131, 332
Japanese Gardens, 236
Japanese Quarter, 156
Jedediah Strong Smith boulder, 185
Johnson, Jack, 139
Johnston, General Albert Sidney, 41
Jones, Commodore, 112
Jones, Senator John P., 47, 267
Joshua Tree National Monument, 398
Kearney, General Stephen W., 38-39
Kellogg Stock Farm, 307
Ketchel, Stanley, 139
La Brea Pits, 183-84, 13, 26, 181, 192
La Canada, 296
La Crescenta Valley, 58
Ladybug Canyon, 298
Lakes: Arrowhead, 141, 293; Big Bear, 293, 141; Crystal, 304-05, 11, 302; Elizabeth, 11; Elsinore, 333; Jackson, 411, 11; Malibu, 383; Quail, 11
La Miniatura, 263
Last Supper Window, 210
Lasuen, Padre Fermin, 392
Libraries: A. K. Smiley, Redlands, 312; Central Public, 158-59, 109, 129; Edward L. Doheny, Jr., 190; Huntington Library and Art Gallery, 278-79; Long Beach, 248, 245; Outdoors, 8; Pasadena, 258; Santa Monica, 270, 126
Lincoln Monument, Long Beach, 248
Lion Farm, 325
Literature, 117-128
Little Rock Creek, 399
Little Theater movement, 130
Little Tokio, 156
Lockheed Aircraft, 389
Long Beach, 238-53, 6, 11, 13, 58, 60, 101, 140; municipal auditorium, 249; municipal market, 245; Navy Landing, 248
Lopez, Don Francisco, 394
Los Angeles: Agricultural wealth, 57; area, 10; assessed valuation, 58; bank debits, 58; boom, (1885-87) 42-45, (1920’s) 55, 108; building figures, 55; Bureau of Power and Light, 359-60; capitulation to Fremont, 39; Chamber of Commerce, 54-55, 44, 49-50, 135; City Planning Commission,110; county building code, 58; County Fair, 308; County Museum, 191; drought, 41; founding, 27-28; Immigration and Land Co-operative Association, 307; incorporation of, 40
Love Joy Buttes, 396
Lower Pine Canyon, 302
Lugonia settlement, 312
Lummis, Charles F., 120-21, 112-13, 173, 174
MacArthur, General Douglas, 220
MacKay Radio and Telegraph Company, 101
Madonna of the Trails Monument, 285
Mahayana Buddhists, 156
Major Disaster Emergency Council, 101
Malibu Lake, 383
Manitou Club, 139
March Field, 331
Marine Course, Ballona Creek, 353
Marine Exchange, lookout station, 219
Marine Meteorological Observatory, 225
Massacre Canyon, 332
Mausoleum, Forest Lawn, 210
Mayer, Louis B., 352
Maywood Glass factory, 166
McAdoo, William Gibbs, 54
McGroarty, John Steven, 121
McKinley, James, 34
McPherson, Aimee Semple, 176-77, 71, 101, 333
Merced Theatre, 128
Mervine, Captain William, 37
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, 52, 302, 315
Mexicans, 3, 36-37, 49, 117; Boyle Heights, 169; families, 3; folk songs, 112; participation in war, 54; players, 284
Mexican War, 35
Micheltorena, Governor Manuel, 34-35, 61
Miles Memorial Playhouse, 270
Millard House, 108
Millikan, Dr. Robert A., 260
Million-Dollar Bath House, Long Beach, 248
Miniature Landscape and Fish Pool, 155
Mission Inn, 330
Mission Play, 130
Missions: San Fernando, 392, 30, 104, 207-08; San Gabriel Arcangel, 322-24, 23, 27, 61, 104, 208, 277; San Juan Capistrano, 349-50; secularization of, 32
Mockingbird Canyon, 334
Modjeska, Helene, 346, 347, 361
Monrovia, 281
Moore, Captain Benjamin D., 39
Mormon legend, 292
Mormons, 286-87
Morris Dam, 302
Motion Pictures, 73-97, 6, 60; Bio-graph, 74, 75, 76; Bison, 73; Central Casting office, 232; Columbia, 77, 232, 390-91; Disney, Walt, 389-90, 77-78, 127, 178; Edison, Thomas Alva, 74; Essanay, 74; Famous Players, 75, 353; film stars, 199; first motion picture, 74; first studio, 73; first talking film, 77; Goldwyn, 352-53; Horsley brothers, 229; Ince, 351-52; Independent Motion-Picture Company, 75; Kalem, 74, 351; Keystone, 73; Loew, Marcus, 353; Lubin, 74; Making a Movie, 78-97; Malibu Beach colony, 386; Mayer, Louis B., 352-53; Melies, 74; Metro, 77, 352-53; Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer, 352-53, 77; Monogram, 394; Nestor, 229, 74; Paramount, 77, 383; Patents Company, 74, 75; Pathe, 74; Producers Association, 77; Producers and Distributors of America, Inc., 81-82, 78; properties, 87; Republic, 380; RKO, 237, 77; Roach, 352; Rolin, 352; Rubin, J. R., 353; Selig, 74; Selz-nick, 352; Thalberg, Irving, 353; Triangle, 351; Twentieth-Century Fox, 201-04, 77; United Artists, 76-77; Universal, 77, 352, 380; Vita-graph, 74; Warner Brothers-First National, 77; 391; Zukor, Adolph, 353
Motor vehicles, 59
Mountain Home, 395
Mountains: Baden-Powell, Mount, 10; Black Jack Peak, 367, 11; Box Springs, 331; Brown, 297; Buzzard’s Peak, 307; Condor Peak, 298; Elsinore, 333; Iron, 298; Josephine Mount, 298; Lukens, Mount, 297; Orizaba, 367, 11; Rubidoux, Mount, 329; San Antonio, Mount (“Old Baldy”), 298, 10, 297; San Bernardino, 313; Sandstone Peak, 10; San Gabriel, 296, 10-11, 14, 19, 302, 399; San Gorgonio, 313, 13; San Jacinto, 332-33; San Jacinto, Mount, 331; Santa Ana, 331, 333; Santa Monica, 384, 10-11, 14, 172; Santa Rosa, 317; Santa Susana, 392, 10-11; Sierra Nevada, 12-13; Slover, 311; Steele Peak, 332; Strawberry Peak, 298; Table Mountain, 400; Verdugo, 207; Wilson, Mount, 298-301
Municipal Art Commission, Los Angeles, 125
Municipal Water Bureau, 51
Museums: Antelope Valley Indian, 399; Anthropology Hall, 192; Bowers Memorial, 348; Coronel Collection, 192; Glidden Indian, 373; Huntington Art Gallery, 278-79, 125; Indian, Alberhill, 334; Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art, 191, 92, 13, 125, 184; Lyon Pony Express, 279-80; Pioneer House, 346; Rumsey Indian, 329-30; Southwest, 173, 113, 125, 174
Music, 111-17
Naples, 251
National Broadcasting studios, 232, 99
National Forest, first, 296-97
National Guard, State Armory, 191
Navy: 248-49, 12, 55, 174-75, 215-16 219, 224, 239, 240
Neve, Governor Felipe de, 27, 50, 151, 152
New Chinatown, 154-55
Newhall Pass, 393
Newmark, Harris, 280
Newmark, Joseph P., 69
Newport Bay, 361
New San Pedro, 217
Nichols, Mayor John G., 69
Nieto, Dona Manuela, 241
Nieto, Don Juan Jose, 241
Nieto, Jose Manuel, 240, 338, 345
Night clubs, 142
Ninety-first Division, U. S. Army, 54-55
Nino Canyon Lookout, 297
Normal school, first, 61
North American Aviation factory, 356
Oak of the Golden Legend, 394
Observation Balcony, Los Angeles City Hall, 148
Occidental College, 172, 62, 66
Oil: (see Petroleum) 40
Old Chinatown, 155
Old Long Beach Cemetery, 252
Old Salt Road, 355
Olive View Sanitarium, 391
Olvera, Augustine, 153
Olvera Street, 153
Olympic Auditorium, 139
Olympic Marine Stadium, Long Beach, 251
Orange, 346-47
Oranges: (see Citrus)
Orange Carnival, 135
Orange County Courthouse, 348
Orange Show, National, 287-88
Orpheus Club, 115
Ostrich Farm, 171
Otis, General Harrison Gray, 48, 181
Outlook, Santa Monica, 267
Out West, magazine, 121
Owens River, 51
Pacific Coast Conference, 138
Pacific Colony, 327
Pacific Electric Railway, 208, 241
Pacific Land Company, 345
Pacific Light and Power, 305
Palm Canyon, 317
Palmdale, 20
Pan-American Petroleum, 17
Parasol library stations, 8
Parks: Arrowhead, 292; Arroyo Seco, Pasadena, 171, 173; Azusa City, 282; Banning, Wilmington, 223; Barnsdall, 231; Baylis Picnic Grounds, San Bernardino, 293; Beverly Gardens, Beverly Hills, 200; Bixby, Long Beach, 250-51, 240; Brand, Glendale, 213, 392; Brookside, Pasadena, 263, 171; Busch Gardens, Pasadena, 262; Ca-brillo Beach, San Pedro, 220-22; Carmelita Garden, 262; Centinela, 356; Children’s Pleasure Park, Venice, 354; De Longpre, Hollywood, 233; Doheny State, Laguna Beach, 366; Douglas, Santa Monica, 272; Echo, 176; Elysian, 174, 26; Exposition, 191, 137; Ganesha, Pomona, 308; Griffith, 178; Hancock, 183-84, 26, 192; Hollenbeck, 169; Irvine, Orange, 347; Lafayette, 181; Lincoln, Long Beach, 245; Lincoln, Los Angeles, 171-72; Lincoln, Santa Monica, 270; Municipal, Beverly Hills, 205; North Hollywood, 380; Pacific, Long Beach, 241; Palisades, Santa Monica, 271, 266; Perris Hill, 287; Pershing Square, 157; Pioneers, San Bernardino, 287: Point Fermin, San Pedro, 222; Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Gardens, 336; Recreation, Long Beach, 251; Reseda, 381; San Antonio, Upland, 285; San Dimas Canyon, 283; San Marino City, 278; Smiley, Red-lands, 312; State, Long Beach, 251; Sycamore Grove, 171, 173; Tapia County, 383; Tournament, Pasadena, 261; Victory-Van Owen, Van Nuys, 381; Westlake, 181
Pasadena Academy of Fine Arts, 125
Pasadena and Mount Wilson Toll Road, 299
Pasadena Community Playhouse, 258-60, 130, 132
Paso de Bartolo, 39
Pattie, James O., 32
Penitentiary, Federal Regional, 225-26
Perez, Jose, 295
Perris Valley, 331
Pershing Square, 157
Pet Cemetery, 383
Petroleum, 12, 45, 46; Brea Canyon, 345; Brea-Olinda, 243, 345; Coyote Hills, 345; deposits, oil, 14; Doheny, Edward L., 176; drilling in Los Angeles County, 243-45; El Segundo, 357; first oil well, 45; gas, manufacturing of, 345; Huntington Beach, 361; Los Angeles Pioneer Oil Company, 337; Montebello Hills, 340; Newhall-Ventura, 392, 45; ocean drilling, 243; oil discovered in Los Angeles, 45; old Los Angeles, 176; Olinda, 345; Pioneers Petroleum Society of California, 393; production, 243-45, 46, 57; Puente Hills, 345; refinery, New-hall, 57, 393; Republic Petroleum, 357; Santa Fe Springs, 337-38; Seal Beach, 359; Signal Hill discovery, 242-43; Standard Oil pier, Vista Del Mar, 357; Standard Oil refinery, 356; Standard Oil tankers, 357; storage tanks, Vista Del Mar, 357; Union Oil, 337-38; Venice-Playa Del Rey, 354; Wilmington, 224; Wilshire Oil, 338
Philharmonic Auditorium, 157, 129
Philharmonic Orchestra, 113-14
Pickfair, 199
Pico Canyon, 393
Pico, General Andres, 36, 39, 208, 344, 380
Pico, Pio, 34-35, 151, 172, 340-41, 345
Pike, the, Long Beach, 248, 239
Pilgrimage Play, 132
Pine Flats, 304
Pine Knot, 294
Pioneers Petroleum Society of California, 393
Piute Indians, 286
Placerita Canyon, 394
Plaza Church, 152
Poet’s Cabin, 299
Pomona College, 284, 62, 66, 126
Pools of Santa Monica, 266
Population: Los Angeles, 3, 29, 31, 33, 40, 41, 45, 49, 51, 55
Porcupine, newspaper, 119
Port of Los Angeles, 48
Portola, Captain Gaspar D., 26, 46, 174
Portola-Crespi Monument, 174
Portola Expedition, 337
Production for Use, 59
Prometheus Statue, 181
Providence Land, Water and Development Company, 389
Pryor, Nathaniel, 34
Public Works Administration, 110
Puddingstone Dam, 283
Pueblo of Los Angeles, 169
Puente Hills, 11, 12, 325, 341, 342, 345
Quail Lake, 11
Quest for Water, 50-53
Rabbit Experimental Station, U.S., 286
Radio and Radio Stations, 99-102; KECA, 99, 102; KEHE, 99; KFAC, 101; KFI, 98-99, 102; KFOX, 99, 101; KFSG, 101, 177; KFVD, 101; KFWB, 99-100; KGER, 101; KGFJ, 101; KHJ, 98-99, 102; KMPC, 101; KMTR, 101; KNX, 98, 99; KPPC, 254; KRKD, 101; Aimee Semple McPherson, 101; American Federation of Radio Artists, 100; Blue Network, 99; California Radio System, 99; Columbia Broadcasting System, 99, 109; Don Lee Chain, 99, 102; Mackay Radio and Telegraph Company, 101; Mutual Network, 99, 100; National Broadcasting Company, 232, 99; National Guard, 180; radio-newspaper “war,” 101; RCA Communications, Inc., 101; RCA Marine Corporation, 101; Red Network, 99; television, 102; University of California, 101; University of Southern California, 101
Railroads: First in Los Angeles, 41; Los Angeles and Independence, 267; Los Angeles and Salt Lake, 257; Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley, 257; Los Angeles and San Pedro, 47; Los Angeles-Santa Monica, 47; rate war, 43; Sante Fe (Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe), 134, 13, 43, 281, 283; Southern Pacific, 42, 43, 50, 134, 208, 218, 347-48; Union Pacific, 155, 311
Rainbow Pier, Long Beach, 249-50
Ramona Pageant, 332
Ranches: Aguaje de la Centinela, 355; Ashcroft, 336; Azusa de Duarte, 282; Chino, 37, 328; Darling) 399 5 De la Puente, 325; Dominguez, 28; El Encino, 381; El Escorpion, 382; El Rincon de San Pascual, 277; Garfias, 322; Jurupa, 36, 329; La Brea, 13, 184; La Canada, 296; La Providencia, 380, 389; Las Tunas, 324; Las Virgenes, 36; Los Alamitos, 241, 252; Los Cerritos, 241; Los Coyotes, 345; Los Feliz, 178; Los Nietos, 338; Malibu, 385; Paso de Bartolo, 340; Rodeo de Las Aguas, 198; San Antonio, 338, 198, 382; San Bernardino, 38, 286; San Francisquito, 393; San Jose de Abajo, 327; San Jose de Arriba, 307; San Pascual, 38, 256; Sausal Redondo, 355, 357; Sepulveda, 267; Valyermo, 399
Rattlesnake Island, 47
Rebellion of 1846-47 (Los Angeles), 36-39
Red Box Divide, 298
Red Hill, 348
Redlands Bowl, 312
Redlands Canal, 311
Redondo amusement zone, 140
Redondo Beach, 357
Regan Collection of Rembrandt etchings, 192
Religion, 67-72; Angeles Temple, 72; Baptists, 71, 72; Cathedral of St. Vibiana, 68; Christ Faith Mission, 395; Christian Fundamentals League, 67; Christian Science, 70, 71; Church of Christ, 71; Church of the Nazarene, 67; Congregational, 62, 70, 72; Dunkers, 283, 62; Episcopal, 69, 72; evangelism, 67; Four Square Gospel, 71; Hebrew Evangelization Society, 67; Jewish, 71, 72, 69; Jodo Shinshyu Buddhists, 157; Latter-day Saints, 71; Lutheran, 71; Mahayana Buddhists, 156; Methodists, 70, 71, 72; Mormons, 286, 287; Peoples Independent Church of Christ, 72; Presbyterian, 69, 71, 72, 62; Protestant Episcopal, 69, 72, 71; Protestantism, 68, 69; Reformed New Testament Church of the Faith of Jesus Christ, 68; religious plays, 127; Roman Catholic church, 67, 68, 71, 72; Seventh-Day Adventists, 71; Unitarian, 128
Rivers: Los Angeles, 50-53, 11, 47, 239; Mojave, 293; Owens, 51; San Gabriel, 11, 19, 47, 359; Santa Ana, 337, 361; Santa Clara, 58
Riviera Country Club, 140
Robbins, Thomas, 368
Rogers, Will, 122, 131, 199, 209; Memorial Field, 140
Rowland, John, 325
Rubidoux, Louis, 329
Running Springs, 293
Ruskin Art Club, 124
Salton Sea, 315
San Bernardino National Forest, 277, 292, 297, 402
San Clemente Island, 12
San Dimas, 282
San Fernando, 391
San Fernando Reservoir, 51
San Fernando Valley, 10, 11, 51, 56, 58, 207
San Francisquito Canyon, 52
San Francisquito Creek, 394
San Gabriel Canyon, 11, 302, 303
San Gabriel Timberland Reserve, 297
San Gabriel Valley, 277
San Gorgonio Pass, 313
San Jose Valley, 326
San Nicolas Island, 12
San Pedro Naval Base, 55
Santa Ana, 347-48
Santa Ana Canyon, 336
Santa Catalina Island, 367, 223, 11
Santa Fe railway, (Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe), 134, 13, 43, 281, 283
Santa Monica, 265-73; municipal auditorium, 273; municipal pier, 266, 271
Santa Monica Canyon, 266
Santiago Dam, 347
Savannah, U.S.S., 37
Schools, Colleges, and Universities, 62-66; Adult Evening College, 65; Berkeley Hall School, 65; Board of Education, 63-64; California Graduate School of Design, Pasadena, 262-63; California Institute of Technology, 260-61, 13, 66; Catholic Girls’ School, 66; Chouinard Art Institute, 65; City College, 65; Claremont College, 66, 284; College of Agriculture, U.C.L.A., 331; County Board of Education, 63; Curtiss-Wright Technical Institute, 212; elementary, 63; enrollment, 63, 65, 66; Federal aid, 64; first normal school, 61; Frank Wiggins Trade School, 65; Harvard School, 65; Immaculate Heart College, 62; John Dewey School, 65; La Verne College, 283, 62; Los Angeles Branch, University of California, 62; Loyola University, 355, 66; Methodist University of Southern California, 62; Occidental College, 172, 62, 66; Otis Art Institute, 181, 65; Pasadena College, 65; Pomona College, 284, 62, 66, 126; private, 63-65; Quaker, 62; Redlands College, 66; school system, 63; Scripps College for Women, 284, 66; Sherman Indian Institute, 330; State Normal School, 204; State Superintendent of Education, 63; St. Vincent’s College, 355, 62; teachers, 63; University of California at Los Angeles, 204-05, 63, 66, 101, 138 ; University of California, Institute of Animal Husbandry, 307; University of Redlands, 312; University of Southern California, 190-91, 62, 66, 101, 138; Whittier College, 341, 62, 65, 66
Sealed Well, the, 382
Sea-level marker, 321
Sea lions, 378
Sea shells, 365
Secularization of the Missions, 32, 277, 323, 341, 350
Self-help movement, 59
Selig, William, N., 73
Selznick, Lewis J., 76
Seminole Hot Springs, 383-84
Sennett, Mack, 75
Serra Chapel, 349
Serra Cross, 329
Serra, Fray Junipero, 349-50; statue, 152
Serano Memorial, 334
Seven Health Waters, 333
Shaler, Captain William, 217, 30, 46, 117
Sherwood Lake, 384
Shipyard, first, 241
Shrine Civic Auditorium, 189
Sierra Madre, 281
Signal Hill, 238-47
Signal Point, 299
Silver Lake Reservoir, 178
Sisters of the Immaculate Heart, 62
Slauson, J. S., 338
Small-boat Anchorage, Long Beach, 249
Smith, Jedediah Strong, 285, 402
Smithsonian Institute’s solar observatory, 400
Smoke Tree Forest, 317
Smuggling, 30
Soldiers home, Sawtelle, 266
Southern California Colony Association, 329
Southern California Edison steam plant, 224
Southern Pacific railroad, 42, 43, 50, 134, 208, 218, 347-48
Spanish-American War, 48
Spanish and Mexican folk songs, 112
Spanish Artifacts, 174
Spanish War Memorial, 157
Speedway, Venice, 354
Stage Line, Los Angeles-San Pedro, 46-47
Stanton Cactus Gardens, 307
State Armory, 191
State Building, California, 149
State Experimental Citrus Station, 331
State Exposition Building, 191
State Militia, 48-49
State Olympiad Bond Act, 137
State Prison for First Offenders, 328
Stearns, Don Abel, 241, 252, 345
Stendahl Gallery, 182
Stock Exchange, 59; Institute, 160
Stockton, Commodore Robert, 36, 154
St. Bernardine of Sienna, 286
St. James Park, 189
Sunken Rose Garden, 191
Supply Warehouse, 223
Supreme Court, California, 149
Sutter, John, 35
Swallows, San Juan Capistrano, 349
Swimming Stadium, Los Angeles, 193
Tahquitz Bowl, 316-17
Technocrats, 59-60
Tejon Pass, 11
Telescopes, 299-300
Television, 102
Temescal Canyon, 333-34
Temple, John, (Don Juan), 34, 69, 241, 242, 252, 253
Temple Mansion, 325
Tennis, 140
Theater Alliance, 114
Theater, the, 127
“The Strip,” 228
Tibbett, Lawrence, 114
Tijuana, 137
Tile manufacturing, 333
Toluca, 380
Topanga Canyon, 384, 11, 14, 382
Torrance Tower, 173
Tournament of Roses, 256, 135, 139
Townsend, Dr. Francis E., 240, 60
Townsend Old Age Pension Plan, 240
Triunfo Pass, 11
Tropical Ice Gardens, 204, 140
Tropico, 208
Tully, Jim, 122
Turkey ranching, 396
Tustin, 348
Two Years Before the Mast, 117, 217, 366
Union Air Terminal, 389, 101, 207
Union Hall, 128
Union Oil Company of California, 337-38
Union Pacific railroad, 155, 311
Union Passenger Terminal, Los Angeles, 155
Union Stockyards, Los Angeles, 165
United States Government: Arcadia Balloon School, 55; Armory, Naval and Marine Corps Reserve, 174-75; Breakwater, Los Angeles Harbor, 216, 47, 48, 222; Coast Guard Pier, 219; Customs House and Post Office, San Pedro, 219; Drum Barracks, 223; Federal Building, Los Angeles, 148; Federal Housing Projects, 110-11; Federal Regional Penitentiary, 225-26; First Wing, G.H.A., Air Force, 331; Fleet Air Base, 224; Fortieth Army Division, 54-55; Immigration Station, 219; Lighthouse, 22; Long Beach, 239-41; March Field, 331; Naval Base, San Pedro, 55; Navy Landing, 219; Navy, 248-49, 12, 215-16, 239-40; Ninety-first Army Division, 54-55; Palm Springs Indian Reservation, 317; Public Works Administration, 110; Rabbit Experimental Station, 286; Reclamation Service, 52; Reservation, Fort MacArthur, 220, 222; Soboba Indian Reservation, 332; supply warehouse, 223; Veterans’ Administrative Facility, 204; Veterans’ Hospital, 391; Weather Bureau broadcasts, 101
Universal City, 6
University of California at Los Angeles, 204-05, 63, 66, 101, 138
University of Southern California, 190-91, 62, 66, 101, 138
Upland, 284-85
U. S. Army, Pacific Department, 41
Utopian Society, 59
Valley Hunt Club, Pasadena, 135
Val Vita Food Products plant, 345-46
Valyermo Camp, 399
Vancouver, Captain George, 46
Vandalia, 37
Varela, Serbulo, 36-37
Vasquez Rocks, 395
Vasquez, Tiburcio, 395
Verdugo, Corporal Jose, 207-08
Verdugo, Dona Catalina, 213
Verdugo Hills, 11
Verdugo, Jose Maria, 169
Verdugo Recreational Center, 213
Vernon, 57
Veterans’ Administrative Facility, 204
Veterans of Foreign Wars, 55
Veterans’ Hospital, U. S., 391
Veterans’ Memorial Building, Ingle-wood, 356; Long Beach, 245
Villa, Señora Rita, 198
Vineyards, Los Angeles, 31, 40; largest in the world, 309
Vittoria, Governor, 341
Vizcaino, Sebastian, 25, 46, 217
Wagon Wheel Monument, 292
Walker Board, 48
Wanger, Walter, 78
Warehouse, first in San Pedro, 46
Warner, Jonathan (Don Juan Jose), 34
Watchorn Lincoln Shrine, Redlands, 312
Waterman Canyon, 292
Water Supply, 41, 50-53; Aguaje de la Centinela, Inglewood, 355; Bear Valley Mutual Water Company, 294; Big Bear Lake and Dam, 293; bond issue, first, 51; Boulder Canyon Project Act, 52; Boulder Dam, 52, 53 ; Cajalco Dam and Reservoir, 334; City Water Company, 51; Colorado River, 52; Colorado River Aqueduct, 315; Cucamonga Water Company, 286; Haiwee Reservoir, 51; irrigation ditches, 19; La Verne softening plant, 53; Long Beach Land and Water Company, 241; Los Angeles Aqueduct, 51-52, 58, 315, 394; Los Angeles River, 51; Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, 52-53, 302, 315; Morris Reservoir, 302; Mul-holland, William, 51-52; Municipal Water Bureau, 51; Owens River Valley, 51; Parker Dam, 53; Puddingstone Reservoir, 283; Saint Francis Dam, 52, 394; San Fernando Mission, 50; San Fernando Reservoir, 51; San Gabriel Dam, No. 1, 302-03; San Gabriel River, 19; San Jacinto Mountains, 53 ; Silver Lake Reservoir, 178; water-distributing system, 51; water wheel, 50
Wayside Art Colony, Long Beach, 250
Weapons, Otis collection, 192
Wee Kirk o’ the Heather, 210
West Fork Canyon, 304
Westnvays, magazine, 123
Westwood Village, 204
White, Senator Stephen M., 218, 48
Whiteman, Paul, 116
Whittier College, 341, 62, 65, 66
Williams, Colonel Isaac, 37, 328
Willmore City, 241
Wilmington, 214-26, 6, 47, 48, 314
Wilson, Benjamin D. (Don Benito), 256, 34, 37, 47, 198, 298
Wilson Monument, 299
Wilson (Mount) Observatory, 298-301
Wineville, 328
Winter Sports, 141
Wisteria Fete, 281
Wolfskill, William, 402
Woman’s Symphony Orchestra, 114
Woodwardia Canyon, 298
Workman Family Cemetery, 326
Workman Homestead, 325
Workman, William, 34
Work Projects Administration: Adult Education, 64-65; Art Project, Anaheim, 346; Art Project, Hollywood Bowl, 236; Art Project, Long Beach, 249; Art Project, Los Angeles, 126, 159, 232; Flood-Control Project, Ballona Creek, 353; Music Project, 115-16; Run Little Chillun, 116;Symphony Orchestra, 116; Theatre Project, 132; Veterans’ Memorial Building, 356
Work Relief, Federal, 59
World Peace Tower, 329
World War, 54
World War Memorial, 158
Wrestling, 139
Wrightwood, 401
Wrigley Field, 139
Wrigley, William, Jr., 368
Wyvernwood, 164
Yamato Hall, 156
Yang-na, 24-25, 28, 40, 145, 266
Yankee immigrants, 35
Young Men’s Christian Association, 72
Young Women’s Christian Association, 72
Zalvidea, Padre, 308
Zanja, Madre, 153
Zeiss Planetarium, 180
Zoo, 180