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Eight Academy Awards banquets were held in the Biltmore Bowl during the 1930s and 1940s.

The hotel also was previously a prohibition-era nightclub.

In 1969 the Biltmore Hotel was designated an L.A. Historic-Cultural Monument.

Book a night at the hotel and visit the Gallery Bar and Cognac Room, a nostalgic watering-hole rumored to be the last place the Black Dahlia was seen alive before her still unsolved murder in 1947.

Angelus Temple

1100 Glendale Blvd., Los Angeles 90026

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Charismatic preacher Aimee Semple McPherson opened the Angelus Temple, seating 5,000, in L.A.’s Echo Park district in 1923.

McPherson’s new Pentecostal denomination came to be called the In- ternational Church of the Foursquare Gospel.

In 1926 McPherson “vanished” from a Venice beach only to “reappear” five weeks later in the desert in Sonora, Mexico. It was the scandal of the decade when she claimed to have been kidnapped for ransom, only to have many speculate she had absconded with a lover. The real story may never be known.

The historic Angelus Temple is currently the home of the Angelus Temple Hispanic Church.

Historic 1922

Here are a few historic milestones we missed in 1922.

The Rose Bowl

1001 Rose Bowl Drive, Pasadena, 91103

Info www.rosebowlstadium.com/

On Oct. 28, 2022 the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, home to the college football classic annual Rose Bowl Game, celebrated its 100th birthday.

The Rose Bowl Stadium has played host to five NFL Super Bowls, two Olympic Games and the men’s and women’s FIFA World Cups.

The stadium has hosted superstar concerts, a Papal Mass and visits by three U.S. Presidents: John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. Also in 1922:

• Los Angeles’ first radio stations, KFI, KHJ and KNX, went on the air.

• The first concerts are held at the Hollywood Bowl amphitheater, now the summer home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

• The Tam O’Shanter restaurant opened by Lawrence Frank and Walter Van de Kamp, they later founded Lawry’s Prime Rib. Walt Disney and his animators were regulars, his favorite table was #31, right by the fireplace and commemorated by a plaque.

• The first L.A. County Fair was held in Pomona. 

Solutions

Reader Letters

Time to Break Up

L.A. County is now attempting studies to better represent its 10 million constituents and the related $44 billion budget by possibly expanding the number of supervisors. What they likely won’t explore is the creation of a new county that would include the Santa Clarita Valley and the Antelope Valley. These north L.A. County communities have very different interests and needs than the other L.A. County areas. Unfortunately, they will likely gerrymander and create new districts that will only result in higher taxes. It’s time to split.

A case in point: As visitors approach Santa Clarita from the east, they will get a warm “Welcome to Santa Clarita” with a hideous view of 1,000-plus junk yard cars in the riverbed. Ironically, most of our local state, county and city elected officials made numerous election pledges to fight the Cemex mining operation in that same area and then almost overnight we got a huge junkyard that flew stealth under their radar. Meanwhile, the junk yard cars keep flowing in. Maybe they will control east side growth.