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Detailed folding map of part of Los Angeles, extending from Santa Monica to the Doheny Estate and Baldwin Hills.
The map includes a number of landmarks, including the Riviera Country Club, Fox Studio, University of California, Santa Monica Municipal Airport, Occidental College Site, and 5 piers (Municipal Pier, Crystal Pier, Ocean Park Pier, Venice Pier, and Sunset Pier). Gilmore Stadium and Pan-Pacific Auditorium, both since destroyed, appear at D13.
The Fox Hills, California, Rancho, Hillcrest, Los Angeles, Bel Air, and Brentwood Country Clubs, as well as the Westwood Public Golf Course are shown.
Founded in 1891 by John and Martin Bekins, Bekins is the oldest still-operating household moving company in the United States. The company's innovations include containerized storage and their early use of motor trucks, operating 2 out of only 700 in the country in 1903. With the rise of Hollywood, Bekins offered its logistics for distributing reels and transporting goods to on-location shoots. In 1971, the company became front-page news when FBI agents seized Daniel Ellsberg's possessions from his Bekins Beverly Hills storage unit at 215 S. Canon Drive (here at 10D) after he leaked the Pentagon Papers.
Whiteson, Leon, "Bekins: A Storehouse of History." Los Angeles Times. Mar. 1, 1989.
