Los Angeles County has fortunately not seen the most horrific mass shootings in the nation. However, including the most recent shooting in Monterey Park, it has seen some terrible incidents.
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Photo from the DWP Collection at L.A. Public Library
Circa 1882. One of the first seven electric street lights in Los Angeles, located here on the 300 block of Main Street (now at the site of Civic Center Los Angeles Mall – just south of Highway 101, across from the Old Federal Courthouse). The light post towered 150 feet above the street.
On September 11, 1882 the Los Angeles City Council unanimously voted to enter into a contract with Charles H. Howland to “illuminate the streets of the city with electric light.” The contract called for Howland, at his own expense, to install seven 150-foot light masts around the city, each carrying three electric lamps. He was also to provide distribution poles, lines, and electrical power. Howard’s installations were the beginning of what would become L.A.’s first electrical power company.
The other six street lamps installed by Howland were located in Boyle Heights; Bunker Hill; Wilshire Blvd & Lucas Avenue (Westlake); MacArthur Park (Westlake); Washington Blvd & Main Street (south Downtown); and La Grande Santa Fe Station (2nd Street & Santa Fe Avenue).
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