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Camels, Confederates and Other Stories from West Hollywood’s Civil War History
The U.S. Army’s camel caravan experiment from 1855 to 1863 used Arabian camels like these to test their military suitability for transporting goods through the deserts of the Southwestern United...
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Greek George Caralambo, West Hollywood’s First Settler, Tended Camels around...
Illustration from Harper’s Magazine of the camel corps trekking west to Los Angeles in 1857 Henry Hancock, a New Hampshire-born, Harvard-trained lawyer and surveyor, arrived in Los Angeles in 1852, two...
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The Capture of the Bandit Tiburcio Vasquez in 1874 Was the First National...
Left: Tiburcio Vasquez; right: A poster celebrating his arrest at “Greek George” Caralambo’s adobe cabin (center) at what is now Melrose Place in West Hollywood In May 1874, a sheriff’s posse descended...
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The Village of Sherman Rises around the Trolley Yard
Sherman Yards at 8800 Santa Monica Boulevard – the Metro bus facility, Sheriff’s Department and Pacific Design Center occupy the property today The transcontinental railroads reached Los Angeles in the...
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Aerial View of West Hollywood in the 1920s
(Click to enlarge) 1. Victor Ponet estate, 2. back of a north-facing building in Sunset Plaza, 3 steeple of S.t Victor’s Catholic Church on Holloway Drive, 4. Hancock Avenue, 5. Palm Avenue, 6. Horn...
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1860 Henry Hancock Acquires Rancho La Brea
An early photograph of the La Brea Tar Pits; inset: Henry Hancock Henry Hancock, a New Hampshire-born, Harvard-trained lawyer and surveyor, arrived in Los Angeles in 1852, two years after California...
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