The City Council selects from among its members a Mayor and Vice Mayor, to serve in those positions for a period of one year. First Steps ran yesterday, and a review of the Pedestrian and Bicycle Initiative will run on Friday.) Direction 21 involves the community in strategic planning. 1958 The Ku Klux Klan first appeared in the Southern U.S. immediately after the Civil War. Measure T, school bond measure, overwhelmingly passes (80%). 1874 A Charette addresses the vision of Downtown Culver City.. Interment at Southwestern Culver City officials said they are addressing the housing issue, with plans to zone for 3,341 additional housing units by 2029. . One CCUSD elementary school (El Marino) reopens as a language magnet, for Spanish and Japanese Immersion programs. 1938 [xxxii] White Robes, p. 81. 1918 6 & 1. A City Planning Commission is created. CULVER CITY, Calif. An advertisement from 1915 describes the town carved out of Los Angeles' Westside as a "model little white city." It's just one detail inside a viral article by amateur historian John Kent that describes the racist origins of Culver City. DeMille Studios becomes Pathe Studios. Culver Center opens as the citys first major shopping center. And the Ku Klux Klan had a large presence in Culver City and throughout Southern California during the 1920s and 1930s and sporadically thereafter.[iv]. Studio Drive-In begins operation. December 8 Congressman Julian Dixon died unexpectedly. [xxviii] Jurists Belong to Ku Klux, Claim, Los Angeles Evening Herald, July 20, 1921 Abbot Kinney establishes Venice of America as a resort. 1946 All of this, of course, creates a terrible legacy. 1943 Francis Robert Reeves (1938-40) 1980 Jim Clarke (2012-14, 2014-18) [xviii], Culver was also president of the California Real Estate Association (CREA) in 1926 and president of the National Association of Real Estate Boards (NAREB) in 1929, both of which were limited to white membership and upheld race restrictive covenants. Groundbreaking for new Senior Center at Overland and Culver. Ivy Substation redevelopment is complete. [xxxv], Over the years, the Culver City police have played a significant role in maintaining the color lines in the city. Attorneys. Raymond ONeal (1958-62) 3 Westfield Culver City Shopping Center, 6000 Sepulveda Blvd ( at the intersection of Slauson and Sepulveda ), +1-310-390-5073. Desilu Productions in Hollywood adds a second studio site, 9336 Washington Boulevard in Culver City. De Mille Studios (9336 Washington Boulevard) is dedicated (formerly Thomas H. Ince Studios). Thank you to everyone in Culver City. San Diego Freeway is dedicated by Governor Edmund G. (Pat) Brown on the bridge over Washington Boulevard. The City Council typically meets the second and fourth Monday of each month. Loewens book has been reissued with a new preface where he observes, Most former sundown towns have never admitted their racism.[liv] This certainly applies to Culver City, although there have been individuals and coalitions fighting to expose this history and change structural practices for decades. [xxx] White Robes, p. xvii. In 1967, the Culver City Police Department hired its first black police officer, James Forte. Culver City Lions Club is established. Walter H. Hahn (1944-45, recalled) Culver City Grammar School PTA was formed. 2013 Learn more about the 55 men - and the singular woman - who have shaped Pittsburgh over 200 years. City Council establishes an Art in Public Places program. By Ray Richardson. 1992 1919 Robert C. LaComb (1944-45, recalled) [i] Loewen, James W., Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism, Touchstone, 2005, p. 3. Every police department in the county has agreed to notify the D.A.s office whenever a police shooting occurs except for Culver Citys.[l]. He was considered one of the most unemployable cops in the country,[xliv] as millions of Americans had seen footage of him kicking and beating Rodney King an act that led to his termination by the Los Angeles Police Department. Steven J. Pathe Studios becomes RKO-Pathe Studios. Issues include the energy shortage, MTA (light rail/bus use of Exposition Right of Way), LAX expansion, and a fast tracking of a Baldwin Hills Power Plant. He also posted it to his Mayor's Facebook page. Resolution #175: City Attorney is authorized to petition the state for a permit to run a municipally-owned bus line between Culver City and the City of Los Angeles. Gilbert Wolfenden Wolfenden, James(1889-1949) of Upper Darby, Delaware County, Pa. Born in Cardington, Delaware County, Pa., July 25, Republican. Earlier this month I represented Culver City at a conference in Austin, Texas, sponsored by the U.S. Conference of Mayors, where over 30 mayors from around the U.S. -and around the world-gathered to share ideas, best practices, and learn about innovation in local government. 1930 1869 List of mayors of Simi Valley, California. Mayors of Beverly Hills Ex-officio mayors. Together, we are making a difference., Culver City News | 4351 Sepulveda Blvd., Culver City, CA 90230 | Phone: 310-437-4401 | Fax: 310-391-9068. Gerald Margolis (1962-66) Washington School opens on McManus Street. [xlvii] Ibid. A veteran of the US Air Force and California Air National Guard, he currently works as Project Director at the James Lawson Institute. 1822 Portrait Officeholder Tenure start Tenure end Ref. Culver City Studios becomes Laird International Studios. ), Disaster Management AreaAExecutive Board, Interagency Communications Interoperability (ICI) System, Audit, Financial Planning and Budget Subcommittee, Standing Economic Development Subcommittee, CCUSD / City Council Liaison Subcommittee, Standing Mobility, Traffic & Parking Subcommittee, Ad Hoc Regional Oil Operations Subcommittee, Ad Hoc City Council Policies Subcommittee, City Council West Los Angeles College Liaison Subcommittee, Ad Hoc Housing and Homelessness Subcommittee, Ad Hoc Short-Term Rental Policy Subcommittee, Ad Hoc FY 2023-24 Special Events Grant Program Subcommittee, Ad Hoc 2023 Legislative and Policy Platform Subcommittee, Ad Hoc 2028 Summer Olympics Preparation Subcommittee. John V. Lindsay: 1966 through 1973 Abraham D. Beame: 1974 through 1977 Edward I. Koch: 1978 through 1989 David N. Dinkins: 1990 through 1993 Rudolph W. Guiliani: 1994 through 2001 Michael R . 1780 April the 2006 charter changes are complete, with new City Manager form of government and transition from elected to appointed City Clerk and City Treasurer. The adoption of a resolution declaring the results of the election, the leaving of member (s) stepping down, the seating of new member (s) on the dais and the annual election of the mayor and vice mayor will take place at the City Council Meeting on Monday, December 12, 2022. The City Council shall consider a motion to receive and file all written correspondence related to agenda items appearing on the agenda and for all other written documents (including e-mails) on subjects not appearing on the agenda that were received by the City Clerks Office no later than 4:00 PM on the day of the meeting. M-Sa 10AM-9PM, Su 11AM-7PM. January Culver City High School opens its doors. Culver Hotel renovation is almost completed by Catlett-Historic Hollywood Properties. Email * Human? [xii] Ibid. Senior Transportation Planner, City of Raleigh, N.C. National Guard Armory, a cooperative city-state venture, is dedicated on city property, just west of the VMB. The list began with R.P. [xxxvii] City of Inmates, p. 164. Lethbridge, Canada sister city relationship is established. To contact all City Council Members:city.council@culvercity.org. Ground is broken for the first of three phases of 40-acre Culver City Park. . [xliv] LA Weekly, Culver City Confidential, Sep 9, 1998, p. 1. Cid was appointed by city officials on Tuesday night. Mayor Telephone (310) 253-6000 Email albert.vera@culvercity.org Gran Eriksson Council Member Telephone (310) 559-6015 Email goran.eriksson@culvercity.org Yasmine-Imani McMorrin Vice Mayor Telephone (310) 253-6000 Email yasmine-imani.mcmorrin@culvercity.org Freddy Puza Council Member Telephone (310) 253-6000 Email freddy.puza@culvercity.org [xxv] California Eagle, Nov 18, 1943 p. 1-2. Steven Gourley (1988-96) 4, 1965, p. 354, Clark Atlanta University, quoting from the Cleveland Gazette. Contributing Writer. New York City: 653 miles: Los Angeles: 1811 miles: Chicago: 78 miles closest: Houston: 937 miles: Philadelphia: 598 miles . There are many cities in the United States with a hidden past, a history hushed up or unacknowledged, and my city is one of them. Thomas Ince is operating at his new studio, Thos. Thank you to all of my colleagues, Eriksson began. Army Corps of Engineers concretes the sides of Ballona Creek. "The Smiths galvanized it all," Moss says. Cardiff and Main Street parking structure breaks ground. Mayor of San Francisco. 1849 Culver City Localisation : Country United States, State California, County Los Angeles. Rancho La Ballona is partitioned by court order. During the 1950s, William Bailey, a black World War II vet and science teacher, and his wife barely escaped when their house was bombed shortly after he moved into a white Culver City neighborhood. Variation in position names provided by employers may affect the accuracy of this report. The buildings have now been adapted for reuse as retail shops, restaurants and upscale furniture company showrooms. Day (1921), who finished her husbands term Both the fair and the White City within it were criticized by the black press at the time for being the white Americans Worlds Fair,[vi] and are understood today to have embodied white supremacy. Black Americans were excluded from decision-making positions, confined to menial tasks, and the only official black presence at the fair was a group of African cannibals on the midway. Culver City Womans Club is established 1964 Watseka Parking structure opens. L.A. County Division of the League of CA Cities, Board of Directors L.A. County Sanitation Dist. Get the latest news sent right to your inbox! These restrictions were so important to the LARB that, within months of the 1948 Shelley v. Kraemer U.S. Supreme Court decision prohibiting racially restrictive housing covenants, it announced it had drafted a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right of property owners to employ racial restrictive covenants.[xvi] The Culver City realty board was one of the numerous local branches that endorsed its proposal.[xvii], Unsurprisingly, the LARB barred blacks from becoming members until the late 1960s. Woodin, J.M. Blanco Park is dedicated. Resolution #18: Appoints Pascal H. Burke as City Attorney at $50 per month. The Culver's headquarters, which was built in 2009, is located in Prairie du Sac. 1984 Thomas Aujero Small (2016-20) Martin A. Lotz (1968-76) When they finished late in the evening, they would be either arrested or escorted by police officers back to the [Central Avenue] district.[xxxvii], Culver City is proud of being the location from 1926 to 1938 of Sebastians Cotton Club, which was one of the first jazz clubs to play all-black bands and orchestras, including the Louis Armstrong Band. [ii], In 1998, L.A. Weekly interviewed blacks and Latinos who described driving through Culver City as akin to running a gauntlet, with numerous stops and harassment by the police for no reason other than race. 2003 There were two Culver City Council seats up for grabs and incumbent Alex Fisch ran against Devin Yaeger, Denice Renteria, Dan O'Brien, Freddy Puza and Khin Khin Gyi. Western Hemisphere Marathon begins its long run. Selznick International Studios suspends operations. Mayor Bass' Executive Directive 3 requires that the Mayor be provided within 20 days an inventory of unused and underutilized city property that could be used for temporary or permanent housing with on-site services; that a formal assessment of each site follow; that based on the assessment, the Mayor's Office designates what type of housing After several other comments were read that supported the election of Eriksson as mayor, the motion to nominate him was prompt and without debate. Miller, J.F. Contact Us Address. Resolution #29: Appoints Dr. W.S. The CREA encouraged racially restrictive housing covenants well into the 1960s, endorsing their use for keeping out African Americans as well as Japanese and Mexican residents.[xix], The provisions against alien races and non-Caucasians also sometimes applied to Los Angeless Jewish population. City Seal (3rd and current one) is adopted with pictorial of city flower (Lantana), movie industry camera equipment, a rising sun, and California Golden Bear, along with the city motto, The Heart of Screenland, and the 1917 date of incorporation. Culver City Historical Society Archives Hal Roach Studios Inc. closes its doors, and becomes the Landmark Industrial Tract. MGM leaves Filmland, moves to Santa Monica. Marilyn Freiden Clark composed the second city song, Our Culver City.. Council establishes a Historic Preservation Advisory Committee. What You Need To Know Cultural Affairs Commission (5 members) is established by City Council ordinance (combined Art in Public Places with Historic Preservation). Over time, the plaques helped to broaden our knowledge of the early City Trustees, now City Councilmembers. Day, Mrs. V.R. [xxxi] Wikipedia, Ku Klux Klan raid (Inglewood). The Klans Culver City presence continued through the 1940s, including within the citys police force, and a cross burning occurred on a black familys lawn as recently as 1976. Citizen Building is constructed by the Donovan family (publishers of The Citizen Newspaper) (Historic Site #4; National Register, city Landmark status). Reed denied this. [li] Lewis, Andy, Hollywood Reporter, L.A.s Ugly Jim Crow History: Nat King Coles Dog Poisoned in Hancock Park, Feb 19, 2015. Both suspects were nonwhite. Culver became quite good at these methods. Thomas Aujero Small served as Mayor of Culver City from 2018-2019, during his four-year term as a Culver City Council Member (2016-2020). The images were Culver City's elected officials starting in 1917, the year the city was incorporated. 1949 [xxx], During the 1923 trial of 37 suspected Klansmen for a notorious raid and murder of a suspected Latino bootlegger and his family, three of the suspects were listed as working in motion pictures and one as living in Culver City. City executes a lease agreement with Camilo and Marie Louise Cereghino for a library building. The City Yard at Jefferson and Duquesne is purchased for $4,000. Culver City Historical Society is founded and incorporated. First land (in Exposition Park) acquired for Veterans Memorial Park. [ii] Lytle Hernndez. This letter provides a rebuttal to his comments. He also adressed the COVID-19 pandemic, and the efforts that have been made to control it. The median annual household income for Culver City in 2019 was $95,044, up 32% since 2010, and significantly higher than the Los Angeles County median income of $68,044. No. What isnt usually mentioned, however, is the policy a succeeding owner described: No colored patrons were admitted, the entertainers had their own entrance and were excluded from mingling with customers.[xxxviii], When Sonny Reed, a well known musician and band leader from the Bay area, came to Culver City in 1950 with family and friends to go skating at the Roller Dome, they were told by the manager-owner, We dont admit Negros. Mayor of Culver City, CA Tom Faria Mayor of Los Banos, CA Steve Benjamin Past President Mayor of Columbia, SC Farrah N. Khan Mayor of Irvine, CA Harry Sidhu Mayor of Anaheim, CA Jerry Dyer Mayor of Fresno, CA Robert Garcia Mayor of Long Beach, CA Kevin J. Lincoln II Mayor of Stockton, CA Todd Gloria Mayor of San Diego, CA Sam Liccardo Mayor of April 6 City Hall Conference Room 1A is renamed to honor Mayor Emeritus Dan Patacchia. Culver City Chamber of Commerce begins operation, incorporates 1921. Redevelopment Agencies are dismantled statewide by action of the California Legislature, with support of Gov. 1974 1999 [v] Los Angeles Herald, Volume XLI, Number 113, 12 March 1915, p. 4. Tahlequah Mayor Sue Catron cut through the Tahlequah Open for Business banner after the shutdown from the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. List of pre-statehood mayors of San Jose. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Southern California in 2000, a master's degree in social welfare from the University of California at Los Angeles in 2015, and a doctorate from the University of Southern California in 2021. Culver City Council Member and former Mayor Meghan Sahli-Wells has championed policies to address climate change, active transportation, equity, affordable housing, clean water, government. 1931 William G. Douglas, Jr. (1946-50) According to a profile of Forte in the Los Angeles Sentinel, Forte discovered that there was major racism within the department. He reported that his first years as a police officer were wrought with name calling and challenges. Forte experienced similar sentiments from the towns residents, speculating that the primary reason for the blatant racist actions of the citizens is due to the fact that, in 1967, there was not one Black family in residence in Culver City.[xliii]. Paul Jacobs (1976-92) The eight minute video isnt just a fun piece of transit history, it also provides some old views of Culver City. Doris Hechinger composes first city song, Culver City.. Culver City becomes a charter city. 1839 Gary Silbiger (2002-10) There may be one person who says I dont mind if a Negro lives next door to me, or if I rent to a Negro. Try to win them over but dont argue too much. But not long ago my sister called to tell me about James Loewens book Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism. Charter amendment passes to initiate term limits for city offices. [lii] Koh, Barbara, Los Angeles Times, Close the U.S. Border, Mayor Says, March 28, 1991. February 22 Fire Station 1 closes; flag is paraded to new station opening a block east. Prat City Council: L.W. Early on, Moss started giving his Culver City designs nicknames, as if to soften or humanize their aggressive forms. Speaking to members of Los Angeles Black media organizations on Feb. 13, Bass said she has asked Los Angeles Police Department Chief Michel . 1781 The seven month school year allows for work on the ranches. Veterans Memorial Buildings cornerstone is laid. At the City Council meeting on the evening of Monday, Dec. 12, outgoing Mayor Dr. Daniel Lee and outgoing Council Member Alex Fisch said their goodbyes while new Council Members Freddy Puza and Dan O'Brien were sworn in. He will remain mayor at least until the results of the Nov. 3 election are declared by the city council (after certification by Los Angeles County). Cecil B. DeMille is appointed as a Special Police Officer. Culver Boulevard ornamental street lights are installed, Ince to Jackson. If George Bush wants to draw a line in the sand, he should draw a line between Tijuana and San Diego, not just between Iraq and Kuwait.. Well find a way![xxv], Tellefson was also quoted as giving his legal opinion that, You cannot prevent an owner from selling property to a Negro, but such restrictions will prevent him from occupying it.[xxvi]. Case. 1950 Sony sells The Culver Studios to PCCP Studio City Los Angeles. Mission San Gabriel is established; local Native Americans are known as the Tongva, Gabrielinos, due to their proximity to the mission, or more recently the Kizh. The sequence from 1:00 to 1:35 was filmed at the corner of Venice and Sepulveda. Don Benjamin "Benito" Wilson, 2nd elected Mayor of American Los Angeles, 1851-1852. Resolution #19: Appoints R.P. The Culver Judicial District boundaries are determined by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. 1905 Former Mayor Michael Tellefson (Julie Lugo Cerra). Downtowns Town Plaza goes through the city approval process. Council approves action of the Parks Board and Art Commission to name the first park Victory Park (now Carlson Park). Email ID. I know how you feel if someone did talk to you like that. A 20-year veteran of the Culver City Police Department, he had been that city's police chief for the past two years. The images were Culver Citys elected officials starting in 1917, the year the city was incorporated. Davidson, the first chairman of the Board of Trustees (1917-18), Walter Edwards, V.R. (Historic Site #6, plaque on SE corner). Election Results Cities with an upcoming election, an election not yet finalized or where the mayor elect has not taken office are listed below with name of the city, population, election date, winner and any relevant notes. The first transcontinental railroad is complete ends western isolation! Grace Diner and partners struggle to serve a changing demographic of Ting Internet nearing network completion in Culver, Cernas Bluegrass Republic plants roots at Boulevard. Resolution #41: Official City map is adopted (defining streets, roads, avenues, highways, alleys). Ian Michael Balkman (1990-98) From 1958-1960 he served in the United States Army. 1819 1771 Resolution #16: Establishes entire city as one voting precinct; polls are located at City Hall. Kelly Lytle Hernndez, one of the nations leading experts on race, immigration, and mass incarceration and a Culver City resident, observed in her award-winning book, City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, that in the 1920s and 30s, black musicians referred to L.A.s suburbs as Little Texas or Little Mississippi. John Kent is an Annapolis graduate, ex-Navy officer, fighter pilot and Vietnam veteran who opposed the war and has been fighting for justice ever since. 1970 [xxii] Redford, Laura, The Promise and Principles of Real Estate Development in an American Metropolis: Los Angeles 1903-1923, dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, 2014. p. 102. Culver Citys 75th anniversary; Hal Roach acts as Honorary Chairman with a January Kickoff (as Mr. Roach turns 100). Later, the remnants of this collection, which ended in 1960, was given to our Culver City Historical Society for safe keeping. A. Ronald Perkins (1974-86) QuickFacts Culver City city, California Table (a) Includes persons reporting only one race (c) Economic Census - Puerto Rico data are not comparable to U.S. Economic Census data (b) Hispanics may be of any race, so also are included in applicable race categories Wolfenden, GilbertSeeC. He is also Chair of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority (LA METRO) Sustainability Council, and on the Transportation Policy Committee of the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG). Ince Studios / Triangle Studios becomes Goldwyn Studios. OXFORD The Oxford City Council formally approved an ordinance Tuesday night establishing regulations for short-term rental properties within the city limits. Before the vote took place, city attorney Heather Baker read comments from appreciative Culver City thanking former mayor Meghan Sahli-Wells for her service as mayor. Women Mayors in U.S. Cities 2019 (cities over 30,000, listed by population & by state, as of September 2019) As of September 2019, per the U.S. Conference of Mayors, of the 1,366 mayors of U.S. cities with populations over 30,000, 300, or 22.0%, were women. Resolution #4: City leases upper floor of the theater from Fannie A. Henderson, located on the Culver Hotel site, for city offices, at $15 per month (published in the Culver City Call newspaper). 1932 1972 Loqui has to be among the most satisfying $10-ish meals available anywhere in Culver City, and with another location in the works for the Arts District soon the whole of Los Angeles. August 27 Chamber of Commerce incorporates. [xxiv] The Color of Law, p.82. Culver CityBus celebrates its 75th anniversary. Glendale officials . U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania, 1928-47 (8th District 1928-45, 7th District 1945-47). [xlix] Ibid., Part 2, p. 1. [xxix] Rice, Tom, White Robes, Silver Screens: Movies and the Making of the Ku Klux Klan, Indiana University Press, 2016, pp. We are beginning to receive some of the missing portraits. 1955 Culver City Council begins planning for the citys Centennial in 2017. Name * First Last. Ordinance #239: (third reading) Changes Del Rey to Culver Boulevard. City Council (Board of Trustees) joins the Lions Club, local citizens and state to prevent the invasion of the Mediterranean Fruit Fly. The first act by the new sitting council was to unanimously vote . The Los Angeles Realty Board recommends that Realtors should not sell property to other than Caucasian in territories occupied by them. With your help, we can update the wall of honor. Mon - Fri: 9am - 5pm. [xvii] Ibid. Harry Culver arrives in California and begins working for I.N. . Last night, Mayor Vera presented Police Chief Manuel Cid with a Culver City Commendation for two decades of dedicated and selfless service to the Culver City Community. But leaders including Alex Fisch, a former city councilman and mayor in Culver City, believe the Apple campus is a plus. Baldwin Hills Dam breaks in December. Goran Eriksson becomes the mayor of Culver City, With temperatures rising, heres how you can help keep pets safe and cool, Ken Ludwigs Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery and Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord, School District. In November 1914, the entire Harry H. Culver Companys sales force of seventy men performed in a large minstrel show to raise money for a church in Culver City. Pacific Military Academy is founded on Washington Boulevard by Harry Culver; moves later to Cheviot Hills. Temple Akiba breaks ground on Sepulveda Boulevard. First Board of Trustees (now council) takes office: R. P. Davidson, Dan F. Coombs, Walter Edwards, V. R. Day, B. J. Higuera. But, for those wanting to segregate America, zoning solved only half the problem.[xii] They had to go a step further, and this is where Culvers proper restrictions came in. Car dealerships are prominent on Washington Boulevard, and major contributors to the local economy. 1990 John Carl Brogdon (1970-74) Jeffrey Cooper (2010-18) Figure 1 (at right) shows an early ad inviting people to tour the city, which announced: See this model little white city, scarcely a year and a half old.[v]. Hull Building is constructed as part of the first hospital. Culver City locals vote to remain independent. Higuera (1917) Culver Citys municipal bus line is founded (states second oldest). [xiv] Weiss, Marc A., The Rise of the Community Builders: The American Real Estate Industry and Urban Land Planning, 1987, p. 122 The little people arrive in Culver City to film The Wizard of Oz. New Senior Center opens (on part of former M-G-M Lot 2). CTRL + SPACE for auto-complete. H. Ince Studios (now The Culver Studios). info@culvercitychamber.com. Hospital, Knitting, Crafts & Sewing Group at the Senior Center, No Limits for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children, St. Augustine Volunteer Emergency Services (SAVES), Westside Center for Independent Living (WCIL). Your information is safe and will never be shared. CCRA establishes first Project Area Committee (citizens) under new state law. Richard Ross Brundo (1976-88) This is the facebook page for Culver City Council Member Daniel Lee. Despite being vilified as a symbol of racist policing,[xlv] Culver Citys Chief of Police, Ted Cooke, hired Wind as a community service officer. Washington Streetscape is dedicated. Culver files Main Street with the Los Angeles County Recorder on property (downtown was on the border of Ranchos La Ballona and Rincn de los Bueyes). Eriksson, who had already been skipped over in the mayoral rotation, now serves his first term as mayor. 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