COUNTY TO MARK ITS 150TH YEAR.Byline: Troy Anderson Staff Writer In celebration of the 150th anniversary of Los Angeles County's founding on Feb. 18, 1850, the county will put on on a parade and offer a weekend of free visits at county museums and gardens. County libraries also are waiving fees for all overdue books and other library materials returned to county libraries from Feb. 18 to March 5. ``The Board of Supervisors has not authorized an amnesty period for library materials since 1986, when more than 63,000 overdue items valued at $1.9 million were returned,'' Supervisor Gloria Molina said. The celebration honors a county that has grown in population from a small Spanish settlement in the 1780s to a city with the largest population in the country - 9.8 million residents. The celebration will begin Feb. 18 with open houses at the county's fire departments and libraries. On Feb. 19, people are invited to visit the county's three public gardens for free: the County Arboretum arboretum: see botanical garden. arboretum Place where trees, shrubs, and sometimes herbaceous plants are cultivated for scientific and educational purposes. An arboretum may be a collection in its own right or a part of a botanical garden. at 301 N. Baldwin Ave. in Arcadia, Descanso Gardens at 1418 Descanso Drive in La Canada/Flintridge, and the South Coast Botanic Gardens at 26300 Crenshaw Blvd. in Palos Verdes. On Feb. 20, the four county museums will be open for free. These include the Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, also known as LACMA, is the official and world-renowned art museum of the County of Los Angeles, California, located on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. , 5905 Wilshire Blvd.; the George C. Page George C. Page was a farmer boy from Fremont, Nebraska who left for California at the age of sixteen because of an orange. He had only $2.30. He worked as a busboy and a dishwasher until he had earned $1000 dollars. Museum of La Brea Discoveries, 5801 Wilshire Blvd.; the Petersen Automotive Museum The Petersen Automotive Museum is located on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile neighborhood of Los Angeles. One of the world's largest automotive museums, the Petersen Automotive Museum is a non-profit organization specializing in the education and history of , 6060 Wilshire Blvd.; the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County opened in Exposition Park, Los Angeles, California, USA in 1913 as the Museum of History, Science, and Art. The moving force behind it was a museum association founded in 1910. , 900 Exposition Blvd.; the Carole & Barry Kaye Museum of Miniatures, 5900 Wilshire Blvd.; and the Craft and Folk Art Museum, 5814 Wilshire Blvd. Concluding the celebration will be a Parade and Festival of Nations on Feb. 20. Buzz Aldrin, one of the United State's most famous astronauts and a county resident, will be the grand marshal. The festival will begin at 11 a.m. and will continue until dusk at the Page Museum and La Brea Tar Pits La Brea Tar Pits Fossil field in Hancock Park (formerly Rancho La Brea), Los Angeles, Calif., U.S. It is the site of “pitch springs” oozing crude oil, formerly used by local Indians for waterproofing, and was explored by Gaspar de Portolá's expedition in , 5801 Wilshire Blvd., and at the Wilshire Miracle Mile district. The parade will start at 2 p.m. and will travel down Wilshire Boulevard between La Brea Avenue La Brea Avenue is a prominent north/south thoroughfare in Los Angeles. After Hawthorne Boulevard intersects with Century Boulevard in Inglewood, La Brea Avenue is formed. La Brea passes north through Windsor Hills, Baldwin Hills, and Ladera Heights. and Ogden Drive. After the parade, a free concert will be open to the public at Hancock Park. More than 30 countries will participate in the parade. ``We will have representatives from Austria, Morocco, the Netherlands, Mexico, South Africa, Thailand and many more countries, providing entertainment, ethnic foods and arts and crafts arts and crafts, term for that general field of applied design in which hand fabrication is dominant. The term was coined in England in the late 19th cent. as a label for the then-current movement directed toward the revivifying of the decorative arts. at our Sunday festival,'' Supervisor Don Knabe said. |
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