Washer repair in Los Angeles County.

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• Agoura HillsIn the 1920s Agoura was briefly known as Picture City, after the Paramount Ranch where Westerns were filmed.
• AlhambraAlhambra's largest and most notable residence, the Pyrenees Castle, was built in 1926.
• ArcadiaLucky Baldwin built the Queen Anne Cottage in 1885–1886, and it is now preserved within the Arboretum.
• Beverly GroveThe Los Angeles Times acknowledged in 2014 that Beverly Grove had not been a well-established name before its mapping project adopted it.
• BeverlywoodMany Beverlywood residents have lobbied the City Council to limit new home sizes, arguing that newer and larger houses change the feel of the neighborhood.
• BradburyIn 1912 the Bradburys' daughter Minerva and her husband Isaac Polk built a mansion on the family property that they named Chateau Bradbury.
• BurbankA severe drought killed about 1,000 of David Burbank's sheep in one year, and by 1886 speculators had bought much of his land.
• Canoga ParkEucalyptus trees reached the San Fernando Valley through Albert Workman, who planted Australian seedlings on the Workman Ranch in what is now Canoga Park.
• CarthayCarthay residents had a median age of 37, older than the city average, and a high share of veterans of World War II and the Korean War.
• Century CityThe land under Century City was once a ranch belonging to cowboy actor Tom Mix.
• ChatsworthMore than 2,000 productions were filmed at the Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, the most filmed movie ranch in history.
• Cheviot HillsThe 2000 census counted 6,945 residents across Cheviot Hills' 1.54 square miles, one of the lowest densities in the city once its park and two golf courses are counted.
• Culver CityBallona Creek runs northeast to southwest through most of Culver City before draining into Santa Monica Bay at Marina del Rey.
• Del ReyDel Rey's southeastern edge follows Ballona Creek and Centinela Creek, and Lincoln Boulevard marks its southwest side.
• Echo ParkEcho Park Lake was listed as an impaired body of water in 2006, and the city then set aside funds for its cleanup and revitalization.
• El SegundoDouglas Aircraft built SBD Dauntless dive bombers at its El Segundo factory during World War II.
• EncinoLos Encinos State Historic Park in Encino preserves the nine-room de la Ossa Adobe along with a pond and a natural spring.
• FairfaxPan-Pacific Park in the Fairfax District stands on the site of the former Pan-Pacific Auditorium.
• GlendaleBetween 1935 and 1937 the Works Progress Administration channelized the Verdugo Wash through Glendale and built ten bridges over it.
• Granada HillsThe San Fernando Valley's first oil well was drilled in 1876 at the northern tip of what is now Zelzah Avenue in Granada Hills.
• Hermosa BeachHermosa's first wooden pier, built by the Hermosa Beach Land and Water Company, was partly washed away in 1913 and replaced with a concrete one.
• Hidden HillsOf the 42 vacant housing units in Hidden Hills at the 2020 census, nine were held for seasonal, recreational or occasional use.
• HollywoodOne of Hollywood's early residential areas, the Ocean View Tract, was developed and sold by H. J. Whitley's company.
• Hollywood / Central LAAbout 81 percent of Central Los Angeles residents lived in rental units and 19 percent in owner-occupied housing.
• Hollywood HillsThree private and two public schools serve the Hollywood Hills neighborhood.
• Hollywood Hills WestHollywood Hills West averaged about 3,048 residents per square mile, among the lowest population densities in the city.
• KoreatownRenters occupy about 93 percent of Koreatown's housing units.
• La Cañada FlintridgeThe Crescenta Valley flood of December 1933 and January 1934 severely flooded the La Cañada Valley.
• Lake BalboaA contemporary Japanese Garden sits at the Tillman Water Reclamation Plant in the Sepulveda Basin beside Lake Balboa.
• Larchmont VillageLarchmont is bordered by Hollywood to the north, Windsor Square to the south and Hancock Park to the west.
• Laurel CanyonA spring-fed stream once ran year-round in Laurel Canyon, and its reliable water drew Spanish ranchers who grazed sheep on the slopes.
• Los FelizThe Rancho Los Feliz Adobe, built in 1853 by María Ygnacia Verdugo de Feliz, is the oldest building in Los Feliz.
• Malibu / Santa Monica MountainsMalibu Creek cut its own channel as the mountains slowly rose, and it now divides the range in two.
• Mar VistaAbout 61 percent of Mar Vista's housing is rented, the rest held by owners of houses and apartments.
• Marina del ReyA winter storm in 1962–1963 damaged the nearly finished marina, and the county then built a breakwater across its mouth.
• Mid-WilshirePark La Brea holds 4,255 apartments in eighteen 13-story towers and 31 two-story garden apartment buildings.
• Miracle MileIn 1985 methane seeping from long-depleted oil wells caused an explosion that destroyed a department store in the district, and a federal ban on tunneling there followed.
• MonroviaThe 2020 census counted 15,241 housing units in Monrovia, about 95.5 percent of them occupied.
• Mount OlympusThe Mount Olympus name is older than the 1960s tract: an 1894 newspaper article was datelined "Little Mount Olympus, Los Angeles County."
• Nichols CanyonBy 1981 the city lacked flood-control funds for Nichols Canyon, after residents had repeatedly opposed a storm drain along Nichols Canyon Road.
• North HollywoodWhen the aqueduct opened in 1913, federal law kept Los Angeles from selling its water outside city limits, and many Lankershim ranchers lost their holdings.
• NorthridgeNorthridge was first named Zelzah, a biblical word for an oasis that referred to a water well near the train depot.
• PalmsPalms had one of only two railroad depots between Los Angeles and Santa Monica, the Palms-Southern Pacific station.
• Pico-RobertsonThe Chabad community alone runs four schools in Pico-Robertson, among several Jewish day schools in the area.
• Playa del ReyDel Rey Lagoon, now a city park, is what remained after winter waves flooded an early attempt to dredge Port Ballona.
• Playa VistaBluff Creek, a remnant of the channelized Centinela Creek, runs through Playa Vista and feeds the freshwater marsh of the Ballona Wetlands.
• Porter RanchAbout 50 homes of the original Porter Ranch tract were torn down to build State Route 118.
• Rancho Palos VerdesThe Portuguese Bend landslide covers about 260 acres, roughly 4 percent of the peninsula, with an average thickness of 135 feet.
• Rancho ParkThe municipal Rancho Park Golf Course, an 18-hole par-71 layout, opened in 1947.
• Redondo BeachThe Tongva village of Onoova-nga, "Place of Salt," stood beside a spring-fed salt lake about 200 yards from the ocean in today's Redondo Beach.
• ResedaEarthquakes struck Reseda in 1971 and again in 1994.
• Rolling HillsHailstorms typically hit Rolling Hills at least once every winter.
• Rolling Hills EstatesRolling Hills Estates was known as Rancho El Elastico before it incorporated.
• San Fernando ValleyThe Los Angeles River begins in Canoga Park, where Calabasas Creek and Bell Creek meet, and flows east along the southern part of the Valley.
• San GabrielThe Tongva village of Shevaanga stood at the mission's first site until a flood destroyed it, and the mission moved in 1776.
• San Gabriel ValleyThe Portolá expedition built a rough bridge to cross the San Gabriel River, which gave the name La Puente to a valley city and to the Puente Hills.
• SawtelleIn 1905 lots went on sale in the Westgate Subdivision beside the Soldiers' Home, promoted by the Santa Monica Land and Water Company.
• Sherman OaksThe Los Angeles River, a concrete flood-control channel along this stretch, runs along the northern edge of Sherman Oaks and forms part of its boundary with Van Nuys.
• Sierra MadreA disastrous storm and flood in March 1938 destroyed many resorts in the mountains above Sierra Madre.
• Silver LakeWilliam Mulholland picked the area for emergency reservoirs, building the upper Ivanhoe Reservoir in 1906 a year before the Silver Lake Reservoir.
• South BayThe Metro C Line crosses the South Bay in the median of the Century Freeway, running between Redondo Beach and Norwalk.
• South PasadenaA small natural spring in South Pasadena, Garfias Spring, has been channeled into the Arroyo Seco.
• Sunset StripThe western end of the Sunset Strip has increasingly filled with hotels and office buildings that cater to the entertainment industry.
• TarzanaThe Los Angeles Public Library's Encino-Tarzana Branch stands on Ventura Boulevard in Tarzana.
• Temple CityWalter Temple bought 400 acres of Lucky Baldwin's old Rancho Santa Anita, four miles east of San Gabriel, to found the town.
• Toluca LakeBette Davis built a house in Toluca Lake, and Amelia Earhart and Frank Sinatra also had houses there.
• TopangaTopanga Creek drains the third-largest watershed entering Santa Monica Bay and is one of the area's few remaining undammed streams.
• TorranceThe Olmsted Tract in Torrance includes buildings by architect Irving Gill, among them the original train depot.
• Valley GlenThe Tujunga Wash runs north to south through most of Valley Glen.
• Valley VillageRain is usually infrequent in Valley Village even in winter, but El Niño cycles can bring flash flooding.
• Van NuysThe Van Nuys Post Office, built in 1935, was designed in the Spanish Colonial Revival style.
• VeniceAlong Pacific Avenue in Venice, some early 1900s multifamily buildings still hold as many as 30 units on a single lot with no parking.
• West HillsBell Creek and Dayton Creek, two headwaters of the Los Angeles River, run through West Hills in concrete channels.
• West HollywoodWest Hollywood voted to incorporate after rent control protections in unincorporated Los Angeles County expired, carried by a coalition of gay men, Russian Jews and elderly residents.
• WestchesterThe Manchester Square neighborhood, home to more than 7,000 people in 1998, was bought out and demolished piecemeal for LAX from 1999.
• Westlake VillageShipping magnate Daniel Ludwig's American-Hawaiian Steamship Company bought the 12,000-acre ranch and commissioned the master plan for Westlake.
• WestsideHistorian Eric Avila's definition runs the Westside all the way east to downtown, where the numbered streets and big boulevards take a "West" in their names past Main Street.
• WestwoodWilshire Boulevard through Westwood is lined with condominium towers toward Beverly Hills and with Class A office towers to the west.
• Windsor SquareArchitects including Paul Williams designed homes in Windsor Square.
• Woodland HillsVictor Girard Kleinberger bought 2,886 acres here and founded the town of Girard in 1922, the forerunner of Woodland Hills.