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1919 - Fire destroys abandoned second Southern Hotel, built 1878 in Newhall (corner Main & Market) [story]
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Commentary by By Lori Cannon Spragens, Rudy Ortega Jr. and Laurene Weste
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The Los Angeles County Development Authority is excited to announce that its executive director, Emilio Salas, has been appointed to a two-year term to serve as a member of the national Strategic Planning Advisory Committee for the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials (NAHRO).
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California State University, Northridge’s Spring 2024 Cinematheque series will pay tribute to Hollywood casting director and producer Deborah Aquila, executive vice president and head of casting at Paramount Television Studios and CBS Studios, to mark the end of Women’s History Month on Wednesday, March 27.
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1919 - Fire destroys abandoned second Southern Hotel, built 1878 in Newhall (corner Main & Market) [story]
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2003 - Lifesize sculpture honoring heroes of St. Francis Dam disaster unveiled in Santa Paula [video]
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Greg Herrick, the former longtime College of the Canyons women's basketball head coach who recorded 611 career wins while winning 16 conference titles, was inducted into the California Community College Women's Basketball Coaches Association (CCCWBCA) Hall of Fame during the organization's annual Banquet of Champions at Mt. San Antonio College on March 13.
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Oh, pshaw. Really, a major effort to designate the site of the Dam failure just to extend the harm of the failure of this project to a dozen groups who had little or nothing to do with it? Do you have to drag into this all of the possible minority groups who may or may not have been participants or other wise harmed by it?
Make the memorial about the farm-workers for Newhall Land and Farming; make a nice memorial for the 40-50 Edison lineworkers killed by the flood; include all of the families and residents who were never found or were identified after the flood. Include all of the folks who were caught up in the flood downstream and put up a marker for the phone operator who notified folks down the river from Fillmore. Add another marker for the local policeman who rode his motorcycle around the town warning folks.
But don’t try to make it something that it never was. It was a complete f***-up by LADWP/ William Mulholland, because the geologic and structural engineering of that day could not and did not warn against it. The scientific knowledge was not available to prevent exactly what occurred.
Make a monument; explain what happened. But don’t think that anything else could have happened back then. That was then. This is now.
Don’t be confused by the two.