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unusual facts about Midway Studios - Los Angeles



Alexander Butterfield

H. R. Haldeman, the chief of staff to President-elect Richard Nixon, knew Butterfield from having studied with him at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Arroyo Seco Parkway

The latter was partially constructed and opened by Horace Dobbins, who incorporated the California Cycleway Company and bought a six-mile (10 km) right-of-way from downtown Pasadena to Avenue 54 in Highland Park, Los Angeles.

Ben Rich

After the war he started his college education when he was 21, majoring in mechanical engineering at UC Berkeley, followed by a master's degree in aeronautical engineering at UCLA, instead of in the medical field as he originally planned.

Betty Eisner

After returning to the U.S., she earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Brazil at the 1932 Summer Olympics

Since the San Pedro authorities charged one dollar for each person who disembarked in the Port of Los Angeles, the organizers only let out of the ship the athletes they felt had a chance to win medals plus swimmer Maria Lenk - the first South American woman to compete in the Olympics - to spend less.

Cass Fox

A version of her song "Little Bird" was remixed into DJ Tiësto's compilation album In Search of Sunrise 5: Los Angeles, released in 2006.

Cathedral of Saint Vibiana

The Little Tokyo branch of the Los Angeles Public Library is also located on the site.

Central-Alameda, Los Angeles

The 84.6% Latino, low-income, youthful Central-Alameda neighborhood of the South Los Angeles, California, region lies just south of Downtown and west of Huntington Park.

Central-Alameda, which measure 2.18 square miles, is bounded on the north and northeast by Downtown, on the east by the city of Vernon, on the south by Huntington Park and Florence-Firestone, and on the west by Historic South Central and South Park.

Daniel and the Towers

Daniel and The Towers is a Made-for-TV movie featuring the famous folk art masterpiece, the Watts Towers (located in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles), and their creator Simon Rodia's friendship with a 10-year-old neighborhood boy.

Don Albinson

He also helped with the construction the Eames Case Study House in Pacific Palisades in 1949, as well as the Max DePree House in Zeeland, Michigan along with numerous other furniture and film projects.

Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion is featured in the 2008 video game Midnight Club: Los Angeles.

El Sereno, Los Angeles

Principal thoroughfares include Huntington Drive; Valley Boulevard; Eastern and Alhambra Avenues; and Soto Street.

Ernest Addison Moody

He served as professor of philosophy at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he also served as department chair, and Columbia University.

Fambly 42

Fambly 42 is the fourth studio album by San Pedro-based punk band Toys That Kill, released on May 15, 2012 on Recess Records.

Fire in Your New Shoes

Fire in Your New Shoes was also featured in an episode of NCIS: Los Angeles, The Vampire Diaries and Criminal Minds.

Frederic Hsieh

In the early 1970s, he predicted that the then-predominantly Caucasian city of Monterey Park and the San Gabriel Valley would serve as an anchor for new ethnic Chinese immigrants as an alternative to the old Chinatown in Los Angeles, but it was immediately dismissed and brushed off as mere speculation at the time.

Fremont Hotel, Los Angeles

The hotel briefly appeared in the background near the end of Charlie Chaplin's debut film, Making a Living (1914), during a fighting scene on the road.

Glassell Park, Los Angeles

The growing neighborhood was served by a line of the Los Angeles Railway, which traveled in the median of Eagle Rock Boulevard towards Eagle Rock.

James S. Economou

He is currently the Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of California, Los Angeles where he is also a surgical oncologist and tumor immunologist.

Jayne Mansfield's Pink Palace

In November 1957, shortly before her marriage to Hargitay, Mansfield bought a 40-room Mediterranean-style mansion formerly owned by Rudy Vallée at 10100 Sunset Boulevard in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles.

Journal of Statistical Software

The Journal of Statistical Software was founded in 1996 by Jan de Leeuw of the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Juan-Carlos Cruz

On Thursday, May 13, 2010, he was arrested at Cheviot Hills Park in Los Angeles, for having allegedly solicited three homeless persons at the Third Street Promenade to murder his wife, Jennifer Campbell.

Kerri Strug

Shortly after her feat, Strug participated in the Ice Capades and Disney's World On Ice, then announced her retirement and enrolled in UCLA where she was a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority.

Lange Foundation

The Lange Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1993 in West Los Angeles, California by Gillian Lange.

Larchmont, Los Angeles

The 1983 film WarGames utilized a home at Lucerne and Second Street as a major backdrop and set.

Los Angeles Port Police Association

Additionally, LAPPA is actively involved in supporting and promoting the surrounding communities of San Pedro and Wilmington.

Mel Chin

Mel Chin has also exhibited in numerous group shows including the Fifth Biennial of Havana, Cuba; Seventh Architectural Biennial in Venice, Italy; Kwangju Biennale, Korea; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Whitney Museum of American Art; P.S.1

Method Studios

Method Studios is a visual effects company founded in 1998 and located in Los Angeles, California with facilities in Vancouver, New York, Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, London, Sydney and Melbourne.

Mount Washington, Los Angeles

Several major thoroughfares run through adjacent neighborhoods, including Figueroa Street, San Fernando Road, York Boulevard, and Eagle Rock Boulevard.

Nader Tehrani

Tehrani's research and installations have been exhibited in venues such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston and at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

Nichols Canyon, Los Angeles

Expanded to the present 2 bd/2ba configuration, the interior now features a rustic antique heart pine interior,inspired by James Cagney's 1930 cabin in Lake Arrowhead.

Nichols Canyon was named after John G. Nichols who served as mayor of Los Angeles, California between 1852 and 1853 and again from 1856 to 1859.

Pacoima, Los Angeles

The major transportation routes across and through the area are San Fernando Road, Van Nuys Boulevard, and Laurel Canyon Boulevard.

Phyllis Kirk

On October 19, 2006, Kirk died of a cerebral aneurysm at age 79 in Woodland Hills, California.

Playa Vista, Los Angeles

The Los Angeles Public Library operates the new Playa Vista Branch Library with a community meeting room.

Rand Schrader

Schrader died from AIDS-related complications on June 13, 1993 in Century City, California.

Robin Wright

She attended La Jolla High School and Taft High School in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles.

Sepulveda Boulevard

Sepulveda Boulevard is named for the Sepulveda family of San Pedro, California.

Stan Chambers

Among other stories he has covered are the 1961 Bel Air fires, the 1963 Baldwin Hills Reservoir dam break, the 1971 Sylmar and 1994 Northridge earthquakes, the 1963 kidnapping of Frank Sinatra, Jr., the 1965 Watts Riots, the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, the Tate-LaBianca murders by the Manson Family, and the Hillside Strangler.

Temasek Junior College

TJC students have been admitted to universities including MIT, Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale, Cambridge, Oxford, Duke, LSE, University of Toronto, McGill, UCLA, Berkeley, Caltech, Stanford, Peking University and Amherst.

The Cheap Show

Three others, with guests Truman Capote and Jill St. John (episode 2), Anthony Newley and Bob Newhart (episode 18), and Jim Stafford with Charlie Callas (episode 23), exist at the UCLA television archives, along with the Moreno/Doyle episode.

The Rhodopi International Theater Collective

It was founded by Karapetkov, Stein, RDT Artistic Director Krustyo Krustev, and American dramaturg Benjamin Nadler, with the partnership of the RDT, the Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA) in Sofia, The HyperMedia Studio at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Zagreb's Academy of Dramatic Art.

Thrill Kill

Thrill Kill was developed in the late 1990s for the Sony PlayStation by Paradox Development, later Midway Studios - Los Angeles.

Valley Glen, Los Angeles

In the "Mapping L.A." geographical section of the Los Angeles Times website, the 4.81 square miles of Valley Glen are bounded on the north by Raymer Street, Sherman Way or Vanowen Street, on the west by the Tujunga Wash, Woodman Avenue or Hazeltine Avenue, on the south by Burbank Boulevard and on the east by the Hollywood Freeway.

Visalia Heights, Visalia, California

Visalia Heights is bordered by the Oval Park on the north, the East Village on the north-east, Santa Fe Street on the east, Downtown Visalia on the south, Highland Park on the west, and the West Village on the north-west.

Vivian Liberto

They bought a spacious house on Hayvenhurst Avenue in Encino, from Johnny Carson.

Watts Truce

The Grape Street Crips of Jordan Downs and P Jay Crips of Imperial Courts (Bounty Hunters Bloods) Nickerson Gardens, met in the Imperial Courts Project gym to negotiate peace.

Westchester, Los Angeles

The main part of Westchester is flanked by Del Rey and Culver City on the north, Inglewood and Lennox on the east, Del Aire and El Segundo on the south and Playa del Rey on the west.


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