The Griffith Observatory opens in Griffith Park. Writes first short story about a WWI pilot. Adult admission is 30 cents, children, 10 cents.īegins going to the library the Baldwin Hills branch of the Los Angeles Public Library at 2906 S. The first drive-in theater in California, The Pico Drive-In Theater, opens at Pico and Westwood Boulevards.
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The Santa Anita Park racetrack opens in Arcadia (bankrolled by a dentist and movie director/producer Hal Roach, who made the Laurel and Hardy and Our Gang films). 21 years later Bukowski would come close to death while being "treated" there. Los Angeles County General Hospital opens. Misses six months of school and undergoes painful treatments when he breaks out in an extreme case of Acne Vulgaris.Ħ.3 magnitude earthquake in Long Beach kills 115. Unemployment in Los Angeles rises to 23% at the height of the Great Depression.Īttends Mount Vernon Junior High School (now the Johnnie L. Los Angeles hosts the games of the X Olympiad. Delicatessen opens in original Boyle Heights location. The round-ups begin at La Placita in Olvera Street.Ĭanter Bros. Los Angeles County deputies and Federal officers "repatriate" (deport) 12,600 Mexican residents of East Los Angeles. Pilot Laura Ingalls lands in Glendale to become the first woman to fly solo across the United States.Ģ122 S. The observatory will open five years later. The Greek Theater opens in Griffith Park. The area of the original Pueblo of Los Angeles is renovated and opens as Olvera Street. He reported his income for the 1930 census as $7,500. įather drives dairy delivery truck for L.A. Graf Zeppelin touches down in Los Angeles during its circumnavigation of the globe. Roosevelt Highway (later renamed Pacific Coast Highway) opens. The book, Ask the Dust, has a profound impact on the 19 or 20 year old Bukowski when he reads it in the downtown Central Library. 10 years later he will publish a novel whose characters live and work in the Bunker Hill area of Los Angeles. Ģ0 year old John Fante moves to Southern California. Wyatt Earp dies in Los Angeles at the age of 80 (Earp's house was - and is still - across the street from Mount Vernon Junior High School, which Bukowski would attend a few years later).Ĭhateau Marmont Hotel opens. Walt Disney releases animated "talkie" Steamboat Willie, giving birth to Mickey Mouse. Gambling ships start to appear outside the three mile limit off the coast. Francis Dam collapses, temporarily cutting off power to the city. Just Northwest of Los Angeles the two year old St. Mines Field opens, two years later it is renamed Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). 78 years later Linda Bukowski will donate a large portion of Bukowski's papers to The Huntington. įirst feature-length talking picture, The Jazz Singer. The parade ends at the Los Angeles Coliseum where he gives a speech to 60,000 schoolchildren. Īviator Charles Lindbergh arrives in Los Angeles and is given a parade through the city. Construction took 18 months and cost two million dollars. Route 66 is created when a 2,400-plus mile stretch of road connecting Los Angeles and Chicago is designated as U.S. Packard car dealership at 7th and Flower streets puts up the first neon sign in Los Angeles.įather drives dairy delivery truck for L.A. Lionel Sternberger invents the cheeseburger in Pasadena.Īttends San Marino Grammar School, just South of Pasadena (now Valentine School, it opened in 1918 with 41 students). Its thirteen 50-foot letters are lit by four thousand 20 watt light bulbs.
The "Hollywoodland" sign is constructed atop Mt. Walt Disney arrives in Los Angeles with $40 in his pocket.Ģ110 Trinity street, Los Angeles, CA 90011 Hollywood Legion Stadium opens, home of the big Friday night boxing matches through the 1950s. Opened in 1919, "New York style bar and restaurant" Francois changes its name to Musso & Frank(s). El Molino Ave., Pasadena, CA (Bukowski's grandparents' home) Hudson Ave., Pasadena, CA 91101 (with relatives)Ģ22 S. Period breakfast menu for the ship.Ģ31 S. Steamship tickets for the family would have cost about $300. The Bukowskis come to America aboard the steamship SS President Fillmore (leaving Bremen Germany on April 18, and arriving in New York on April 29). Los Angeles gets its first radio stations: KFI, KHJ and KNX. He would work on the towers for 34 years. Italian welder Simon Rodia begins work on the Watts Towers. The population would double during the first half of the decade, due in large part to the rise of the Hollywood movie studios.Īmelia Earhart begins taking flying lessons in Los Angeles.Ĭharlie Chaplin makes his first feature film, The Kid. Henry Charles Bukowski born in Andernach Germany īaptized in the Mariendom, Andernach, as Heinrich Karl Bukowski (after his uncle). Timeline of Charles Bukowski's life and work
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