Chavez Ravine was named after Julian Chavez, a rancher who served as assistant mayor, city councilman and, eventually, as one of L.A. County's first supervisors. In 1844, he started buying up land ...

Józef Sigalin, one of the chief architects of Warsaw’s reconstruction, wrote about Nowy Świat Street in January 1945 stating that what was left resembled ‘a ravine instead of Nowy ... my thoughts are ...