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2 unusual facts about Griffith Park


115th Airlift Squadron

In 1925, several months after its organization, the Squadron moved to permanent quarters at Griffith Park, Los Angeles.

Baldwin RS-12

One survives and is preserved in operational condition in the "Skunk Train" livery of California Western 56 (Locomotive) at Travel Town Museum in Griffith Park.


John W. Baumgartner

In that era the 12th District covered roughly the area north of Pico Boulevard and south of Griffith Park, with Hoover Street on the west.


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Franklin Hills, Los Angeles

Brothers Roy and Walt Disney both owned homes at the corner of Lyric and St. George during the late 1920s so that they could walk to their first animation studio, located a few blocks away at Hyperion and Griffith Park Blvd.