Pacific Palisades (Los Angeles)

See also: Pacific Palisades

Pacific Palisades is a district of the town of Los Angeles, delimited by Brentwood with the east, Malibu in the west, the Pacific Ocean in south-west, Santa Monica in south-east, and the Monts Santa Monica in north.

Geography

Pacific Palisades counts in 2005 approximately 27.000 habitants.
Although Pacific Palisades includes/understands a business district called the village on Sunset Boulevard, it is primarily a residential zone, in which one also finds large parks public and paths of randonnées.
The proximity, at the same time of the ocean and Malibu, and of the gravitational zones of uses and leisures of Los Angeles, make of Pacific Palisades a required and privileged place. The prices of the real estate are particularly high there.

History

In 1912, the studio Bison Company directed by Thomas Ince, buys 8 hectares of ground along the coast, and founds the first Ranch used for turning of Western S: Inceville.
The sector of Pacific Palisades was parcelled out for the first time in the Années 1920 by methodists, that of which testify the few streets still bearing the name to missionaries. Alcohol was virtually prohibited there, and this during a few years, so much so that a Chinese restaurant had become famous as being the only liquor sales outlet in the city. the church presbyterienne also had in Temescal Canyon a center of conference which was then sold and forms today part of the park of State de Topanga.
The actor Will Rogers acquired in 1926 a ranch, which became also a park of State, and contributed to attract in the sector of the stars and the intellectuals, like Aldous Huxley.
During the Second world war, a German community was formed in Pacific Palisades, around Amalfi Drive, and included/understood in particular Thomas Mann and Emil Ludwig.

Famous inhabitants

  • Two future governors of the State of California lived in Pacific Palisades at different times: Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
  • Mike Coils and Dennis Wilson, member of the Beach Boys (Pacific Palisades is mentioned in Surfin' the USA ).
  • Patti Davis, écrivaine, girl of Ronald Reagan, who describes in her novels her childhood with Pacific Palisades.
  • the Avengers, of the Marvel Comics, have a district-general with Pacific Palisades.
  • Thomas Mann, German writer, author in particular of Death in Venice, lived there of 1939 to 1952.

See too

External bonds

Thomas Ince and Inceville (English)

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