Valverde’s death comes after the city of L.A. honored her last year with a dedicated square.
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Now, around 2,000 of them roam the city everyday.
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Hurricane Hilary is poised to dump several inches of rain on L.A. this weekend. It could also go down in history as the first tropical storm to make landfall here since 1939.
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A plaque will be placed to recognize a safe place in the 1950s for gender non-conforming Angelenos.
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Garfield High School unveiled a plaque honoring the legacy of the student protests.
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The site of the former Rockhaven Sanitarium was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2016 “as one of the best extant examples of an early twentieth century woman-owned, women-serving private sanitarium in the State.”
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It was home to the first Academy banquet, the fourth awards ceremony — and, legend has it, where the Oscar statuette was first sketched on a napkin.
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Shop owners got 30-day notices to vacate this week but said the new owners reached out to extend that another 30 days. This comes after its weekly swap meet permanently shut down earlier this month.
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