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Today, California is more Petaluma than Lakewood. In the 1950s and 1960s, California routinely built more than 200,000 homes each year.38 Since 2007, California has never once permitted more than 150,000 new homes.39 “In Los Angeles, fewer homes were built in the seventies than in the sixties, fewer in the eighties than in the seventies, and fewer

Encouraged by the unexpected success of his idiosyncratic Broken Blossoms, he had decided to leave Hollywood in 1920 and make movies independently in his own studio in Mamaroneck, New York.

“That the tearoom should be built to suit some individual taste is an enforcement of the…

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William Mulholland (the engineer) was L.A.’s fabled water czar, whose wildly ambitious vision of a 233-mile aqueduct brought water to the desert and allowed the city to grow far beyond its natural capacity to support urban life. David Wark Griffith (the artist) was the seminal film director of the silent era, the man who almost single-handedly tran

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