User contributions for 76.219.223.39

23 July 2023

• 17:4817:48, 23 July 2023 diff hist 0 Big Town →Radio: Corrected some years.
• 17:3717:37, 23 July 2023 diff hist 0 Big Town →Radio

2 May 2023

• 16:0116:01, 2 May 2023 diff hist −3 Rancho Azusa de Duarte →History
• 16:0116:01, 2 May 2023 diff hist +7 Rancho Azusa de Duarte →History: Fixed son's name.

8 March 2023

• 00:2600:26, 8 March 2023 diff hist 0 Levi Newton Breed The page itself later acknowledges that Breed died in 1908, which is in fact when he died.

26 February 2023

• 19:0319:03, 26 February 2023 diff hist +123 Charles Chapman (mayor) Corrected misnomer about Chapman Avenue's namesake.

25 February 2023

• 22:0322:03, 25 February 2023 diff hist −258 William G. Kerckhoff →Career: The previous details about Beverly Hills were incorrect; the syndicate purchased the land in 1906, not 1900, and the Morocco name had been established by Hammel and Denker years earlier. Tag: references removed

24 February 2023

• 18:4118:41, 24 February 2023 diff hist −482 Walter J. Mathews →Biography: Removed section about Mathews going to Birmingham, UK and founding a street gang. There is absolutely zero evidence to support this outrageous claim, and no other mention of the "Cromfield Geezers" street gang anywhere on the Web or in archives besides this page. I believe someone simply invented all this, for reasons unknown. Tag: Manual revert

6 February 2023

• 18:4018:40, 6 February 2023 diff hist +40 Lynwood, California Cleaned up my own work about Lynwood's etymology.
• 18:3818:38, 6 February 2023 diff hist +1 Lynwood, California No edit summary
• 18:3418:34, 6 February 2023 diff hist +185 Lynwood, California Corrected old rumor that Lynwood was named for "Lynn Wood Sessions", a woman who never existed.

5 February 2023

• 04:5304:53, 5 February 2023 diff hist −56 Shaun Ryder →Happy Mondays: Cleaned up some sloppy grammar.

28 January 2023

• 18:2218:22, 28 January 2023 diff hist −3 Portuguese Bend →Native Americans: Changed "John" to "Juan". Cabrillo certainly never went by "John". Also changed "Portuguese" to "Iberian" to address the ambiguity about Cabrillo's nationality, which is addressed in his Wikipedia page.

22 January 2023

• 17:4417:44, 22 January 2023 diff hist +7 Cameron E. Thom →City of Glendale: Corrected name for Erskine Mayo Ross and included link

12 January 2023

• 21:2621:26, 12 January 2023 diff hist 0 William Taylor Barnes Sanford →Family: Changed John Sanford's murder date to 1863, as shown in newspapers from that time.

30 December 2022

• 04:0804:08, 30 December 2022 diff hist +41 Nathan R. Vail I have cleaned up some of the confusion over his name and his family's names. I do not know why he is still listed as "Nathan Russell Vail" as his name was Nathan Randolph Vail. Tag: Reverted

10 September 2022

• 21:1521:15, 10 September 2022 diff hist +2 Tom Waits Waits was born in a hospital in Pomona, but his family lived in Whittier and that is where he lived until he was 10 years old. The song Kentucky Avenue recounts his days living on the Whittier street of the same name.

7 September 2022

• 18:2118:21, 7 September 2022 diff hist −22 Zabdiel Boylston →Early life and education
• 18:2118:21, 7 September 2022 diff hist 0 Zabdiel Boylston →Early life and education: Conformed Thomas Boylston's birth and death years to those on his own Wikipedia page.

3 September 2022

• 23:3323:33, 3 September 2022 diff hist +5 Otto G. Weyse →Marriage and divorce
• 23:3123:31, 3 September 2022 diff hist −6 Otto G. Weyse →Marriage and divorce: Fixed some grammar errors.
• 23:2923:29, 3 September 2022 diff hist −11 Otto G. Weyse →Marriage and divorce: Corrected some details about Edouard Naud, his business, and the year of his death.

16 June 2022

• 22:5022:50, 16 June 2022 diff hist 0 Watts Station →Construction and operation as a Pacific Electric station: Corrected spelling of "Tajauta".

8 June 2022

• 23:0623:06, 8 June 2022 diff hist +21 Christmas Tree Lane →Origin

16 May 2022

• 17:2417:24, 16 May 2022 diff hist −20 John G. Nichols →Early life
• 17:2417:24, 16 May 2022 diff hist 0 John G. Nichols Corrected date of death to January 22, 1898. Corrected middle name to Gregg.
• 17:2217:22, 16 May 2022 diff hist 0 John G. Nichols →Personal life: Death date was two days wrong. Source: Los Angeles Evening Express, Jan. 24th, 1898, which clarifies that Nichols died on Jan. 22nd.