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Little Saigon ( Vietnamese: Sài Gòn nhỏ or Tiểu Sài Gòn) is a name given to ethnic enclaves of expatriate Vietnamese mainly in English-speaking countries. Alternate names include Little Vietnam and Little Hanoi (mainly in historically communist nations), depending on the enclave's political history. To avoid political undertones due to ...
El Sereno, Los Angeles. / 34.08111; -118.17694. El Sereno (Spanish, "The Serene One") is a Los Angeles neighborhood in the Eastside Los Angeles region of Los Angeles County, California . El Sereno as mapped by the Los Angeles Times. California State University, Los Angeles is in the lower right corner.
Flores Daniel Gang, was an outlaw gang also known as "las Manillas" (the Handcuffs), throughout Southern California during 1856-1857. Californio 's Juan Flores and Pancho Daniel . Contemporary newspaper accounts of las Manillas all reported that the leader of las Manillas was originally Pancho Daniel , but that Juan Flores assumed the ...
Bethel Coopwood was born on May 1, 1827, in Lawrence County, Alabama, son of an early settler, planter and slave holder in that county, David E. Coopwood, and Elfida Crews Coopwood. [1] Following the death of his father in 1846, he moved to Texas. In 1847, he enlisted in Bell 's cavalry detachment, of Hay's Regiment of Texas Mounted Volunteers ...
Playboys 13 Gang, also known by the acronym PBS13, [7] [8] [9] is a predominantly Mexican-American street gang founded in the Los Angeles County, California and extends to areas in South Central Los Angeles and Orange County, California. The gang also goes by the Spanish term " Conejo" which means "rabbit" [10] or Rabbit gang to identify itself.
Azusa 13. Azusa 13 is a street gang based in Azusa in the eastern San Gabriel Valley area of Los Angeles. Started in the 1960s, it is now one of the most aggressive Sureño street gangs, currently claiming around 400 active members.
Juan Flores (c. 1834 – February 14, 1857) was a 19th-century Californio bandit who, with Pancho Daniel, led an outlaw gang known as "las Manillas" (the Handcuffs) and later as the Flores Daniel Gang, throughout Southern California during 1856-1857. Although regarded by historians as a thief and outlaw, Flores was considered among Mexican ...
Gay's Lion Farm. Gay's Lion Farm was a public selective breeding facility and tourist attraction just west of the south-east junction of Peck Road and Valley Boulevard in El Monte, California. It operated from 1925 through 1942, when it was closed temporarily due to wartime meat shortages. It never reopened.