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Discover the History | Remembering Santa Monica
How they built Westwood
Following WWI, Arthur Letts, owner of The Broadway Department Store was a man rich with cash and dreams of becoming a developer. Letts had his eye on the last big stretch of land between downtown and the beach. Then like a fairy tale out of some developer storybook, Lett’s daughter Gladys married Harold Janss, prince of the Janss Development Family. Westwood was the Kingdom they created.
Japanese American Internment
As a US-born Japanese, Ted Tanaka was imprisoned with 120,000 others based solely on nationality, no due process of law.
He personally describes photos of his incarcerated 3-1/2 years in a US crude camp.
This is relevant today with our current government threats against immigrants and their US-born families.
Pacific Ocean Park Pier
Christopher Merritt and Domenic Priore discuss the Pacific Ocean Park pier. P.O.P. was located at the dividing line between Santa Monica and Venice, the only spot during Prohibition-era Los Angeles where residents were allowed to dance and consort in a carnival-like atmosphere.