This sign greeted guests and employees of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company at the clock tower entrance of the tire plant in Los Angeles from 1919 until 1983, when the plant was closed.
Saved from the wrecking ball by Airship Operations . . . — — Map (db m242966) HM
Philippine national hero. Born
on 19 June 1861. Doctor, poet,
writer, educator, linguist, inventor.
Authored novels Noli Me Tangere
(1887) and El Filibusterismo (1891)
which bared colonial oppression
of the Filipinos. He . . . — — Map (db m235033) HM
Robert A. Cinader's involvement with the Los Angeles County Fire Department began in 1971 when he filmed a pilot television movie about the county's fledgling paramedic program.
"Emergency" aired in 1972 and ran as a prime time show for five . . . — — Map (db m152460) HM
Into the 1890s, newspapers relied upon skilled compositors to set type by hand,
one character at a time, just as Gutenberg had done four centuries earlier.
Starting in 1882, instrument maker Ottmar Mergenthaler (1854-1899) developed
an . . . — — Map (db m248093) HM
