Historical Timeline of the WESTCHESTER-PLAYA DEL REY 1928 1948 Mines Field begins operation 1940 Loyola Theater built, Events Significant to Local Development (eventually becoming LAX) 1925 1929 Hughes Aircraft and Westchester 1834 1902 Waste treatment Oil discovered in the manufacturing plant opens High School opens Centinela Adobe The Beach Land Company Indigenous Gabrielino / Early 1800s facility first opens area, production grows constructed (now the purchases and begins subdividing Tongva people have Spanish land grants at Hyperion in the following decades oldest remaining over 1000 acres in Playa del Rey. inhabited the region for divide the area into Treatment Plant building in the area) Trolley from Los Angeles to the thousands of years ranchos, including: site 1938 1941. UNLV Library Special Collections Rancho La Ballona, beach opens, bringing visitors to Rancho Sausal Redondo, and the new resort. Ballona Creek channelized by Army Rancho Aguaje de Centinela LAX Early History, www.lawa.org 1938. Marina Del Rey Historical Society Corps of Engineers to control flooding 1929 1982. Jack Lardomita for the Loyola University moves Daily Breeze Historical Society of Centinela Valley 1941-46 to Westchester Planned 1946 Replica of a Tongva ki located in Franklin Canyon Park. 1886-89 Jengod via Wikimedia Commons community of Dredging to create Commercial 10,000 people airline ‘Port Ballona’ Kirk Crawford, via Wikimedia Commons developed in service begins, stalls, and is c1938. Marina Del Rey Historical Society Westchester abandoned Mishigaki at English Wikipedia begins at for defense LAX 1919. California Historical Society Collection, University of Southern California workers November 9, 1902, p. IV-6. Los Angeles Times 1700 1800 1850 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1932 1926 LA hosts Olympic Los Angeles City Hall 1781 Games. Later, constructed El Pueblo de Los Angeles athletes’ cottages are 1941 founded placed on the beach Pearl Harbor as a summer resort. bombed, US enters World War II 1850 California Statehood 1934 1945 US Congress passes the End of World Overland Monthly, August-September 1931 National Housing Act, War II Drawing by William Rich Hutton, 1847. USC Digital Library creating the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Olympic.org Public Domain 1929 Stock Market Crash Events Significant to the Development of the City of Los Angeles 1939 HOLC "redlining" map of central Los Angeles, courtesy of LaDale Winling and urbanoasis.org. COMMUNITY PLAN AREA 1985 1997 Playa Vista (Area D) 1950 Otis College of Art and Design Specific Plan adopted Shipbuilder Henry Kaiser 1961 relocates to Westchester builds thousands of Theme Building at prefabricated homes at a LAX opens factory in Westchester 2004 1981 Current Westchester-Playa 1958 Hughes airfield, the longest del Rey Community Plan Pann’s Restaurant 2011-2012 private runway in the world, adopted opens ceases operations Downtowngal, via Wikimedia Commons Google and Snapchat open offices in Venice, other tech Otis.edu 1964. EditorASC, http://www.airlinesafety.com/ firms follow to the area editorials/AboutTheEditor.htm Architects’ rendering. Bancroft Library photo 1964 2014. Wally Gobetz, via Flickr I-405 opens City of Los Angeles YaGeek via Wikipedia c1959. Marina Del Rey Historical Society 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 1965 Watts Riots 1976 California Coastal 1992 2016 Act adopted 1984 Los Angeles Civil Los Angeles voters LA hosts Olympic Games Unrest approve Measure JJJ 1978 August 1965. New York World-Telegram CA Proposition 13 passes Public Domain.