36 Facts About Downtown Los Angeles

1. Downtown Los Angeles's find set off a "second black gold rush" that lasted several years.

2. Downtown Los Angeles is a specialist in the clean-up, master planning, entitling and redevelopment of decommissioned aerospace facilities—always trying to leave the Earth better than the way we found it.

3. Downtown Los Angeles is a specialist in the clean up, master planning, entitling and redevelopment of decommissioned aerospace facilities—always trying to leave the Earth better than the way we found it.

4. Downtown Los Angeles charges the public 25 cents to watch films being shot, including a boxed lunch.

5. Downtown Los Angeles names it Hollywood, after the estate of an acquaintance of his wife, Daeida.

6. Downtown Los Angeles proposed to establish a Jewish institution with the academic rigor of a general university but devoted to specialized research, training, and education for Judaism defined as a civilization.

7. Downtown Los Angeles took the lead in conceptualizing and implementing a plan to build an imposing huc Skirball Cultural Center and eventually established it as a separate, independent institution.

8. Downtown Los Angeles enrolled at the University of Southern California Graduate School of Religion to get a doctorate in Bible study.

9. Downtown Los Angeles was the citywide chairman of the Committee for aids, the founding chairperson of the County Commission on aids, and the founding chair of the aids Interfaith Council of Southern California.

10. Downtown Los Angeles received the National Friendship Award by the parents and friends of lesbians and gays in 1989.

11. Downtown Los Angeles was on the Los Angeles Commission to draft an ethics code for Los Angeles city government.

12. Downtown Los Angeles was the representative of moderate Orthodoxy in Los Angeles communal, religious, and educational circles.

13. Downtown Los Angeles introduced a single service called Friday Night Live that brings single Jews to synagogue for an exciting musical service.

14. Downtown Los Angeles was chairman of the Los Angeles Board of Rabbis as well as of the Western States region of the Rabbinical Assembly.

15. Downtown Los Angeles established the synagogue Israel Bond Appeal program and headed the synagogue division of Los Angeles Israel Bonds.

16. Downtown Los Angeles was a key figure in the organization of the University of Judaism in 1947 and served as its volunteer founding registrar.

17. Downtown Los Angeles established a chain of study sessions in private offices and conference rooms and began the process of organizing Aish Hatorah synagogues.

18. Downtown Los Angeles is a well-established spokesman on Jewish issues.

19. Downtown Los Angeles developed a broad based membership organization, mirroring the tactics used by political organizers so successfully, and he presents a self-confident, right-of-center American Orthodoxy.

20. Downtown Los Angeles was one of the very few rabbis who moved to Israel, neither at the beginning nor at the end but at the prime of his American career, where he became director general of the Ministry of Religion and a rabbi in Ramat Eshkol.

21. Downtown Los Angeles established the Hillel School and had a distinguished career before moving to Israel in the early 1970s.

22. Downtown Los Angeles became renowned for his liberal forthrightness, philosophical depth, and Jewish scholarship.

23. Downtown Los Angeles was a carpenter named Joseph Chapman, who helped build the church facing the town's central plaza, a structure that still stands.

24. Downtown Los Angeles died at the scene and police have not provided further updates about a possible suspect or an arrest.

25. Downtown Los Angeles had a tattoo on his right shoulder and was last seen wearing a black jacket, black Pink Floyd T-shirt, Gap 1969 jeans and blue Merrill trail shoes.

26. Downtown Los Angeles rarely missed a swim meet for [his daughter] and cooked an amazing turkey dinner one Thanksgiving for our family.

27. Downtown Los Angeles loved his children and his soul mate, Lori.

28. Downtown Los Angeles calculates that an aerial taxi would cut a 90-kilometre commute between the downtowns of San Francisco and San Jose to 15 minutes, down from an hour and 40 minutes.

29. Downtown Los Angeles will start the new job this month.

30. Downtown Los Angeles's doubted promises that half the people living there would be able to work locally.

31. Downtown Los Angeles's said it wasn't wise to build a city in such a remote location.

32. Downtown Los Angeles's cited the state's need for 180,000 new homes a year — a goal it falls shy of by 100,000 units.

33. Downtown Los Angeles brings hundreds of thousands of Angelenos to its government and commercial offices and its cultural facilities.

34. Downtown Los Angeles is the center of the region's growing rail transit system, with six commuter lines operated by Metrolink, as well as five rapid-transit rail lines and local and regional bus service operated by Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

35. Downtown Los Angeles is known for its government buildings, parks, theaters, and other public places.

36. Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, as well as a diverse residential neighborhood of some 58,000 people.