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Los Angeles High School

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    • Los Angeles, California, United States of America
  • Telephone Numbers: (323) 900-2700
  • Official Website:[1]
• History & Memorable Moments

Until recently, buildings commissioned to house the school were among the architectural jewels of the city, and always were strategically placed at the summit of a hill, the easier to be pointed to with pride. (One of the school's mottos is "Always a hill, always a tower, always a timepiece.") Construction on LAHS' original building began on July 19, 1872. Opening in 1873, it was originally located at the site of the current Los Angeles County Court House at Temple and Broadway, approximately 34°03′20.44″N, 118°14′36.48″W. ^[1]

In 1879 a school natural science club, the Star And Crescent Society, was founded and consisted then of the entire student body. It soon left its specific focus on science and became a de facto student government and organizational body. Actual student government was instituted in the early 1900s, eliminating one of the main reasons for Star and Crescent's existence. Meanwhile, as the size of the student body increased over years, the younger classes were successively dropped from Star and Cresent until by 1935 only seniors were members. Star and Crescent probably disappeared around the time of the second World War, but is difficult to determine since no one at the school today can tell exactly when it ended. In particular, no yearbooks were published during the years of America's involvement in that war, and it seems likely it might have disappeared during those years. At least by 1923, if not before, Star and Crescent seems to have become a largely symbolic organization whose main purpose was the "pinning" ceremony at the end of each semester, when the pin was awarded to seniors due to graduate the next day. ^[1]

In 1891, LAHS moved to its second building and location on nearby Fort Moore Hill, located on north Hill Street between California (now the 101 Freeway) and Sunset Boulevard (now César E. Chávez Avenue) at 34°03′30.39″N, 118°14′32.84″W. It eventually became the location for the Fort Moore Hill Pioneer Memorial and the headquarters of the Los Angeles Unified School District (which moved in 2000). LAHS would move to its present location in 1917, where an edifice which became an international cultural landmark was erected for the famed school. To insure a permanently beautiful vista for their contemplation, and to honor classmates who had fallen in World War I, the students purchased the land across the street for the creation of a tree-filled, memorial park. ^[1]

The popular late 1960s and early 70s television series Room 222 was filmed here. The 1917 building sustained moderate cosmetic damage, principally in the tower area, during the 1971 Sylmar earthquake. Efforts spearheaded by the Alumni Association, founded in 1876, to repair and preserve the iconic structure were opposed by certain commercial interests, who lobbied for its demolition, and finally decisively thwarted when it was gutted by a fire of mysterious origin. The replacement structure has been universally decried and finds no champions among either current or former students and faculty, or residents of the neighboring community. Past overcrowding at the school has been relieved by the newly-built West Adams Preparatory High School, which opens in 2007. ^[1]

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