Palms is a community in the Westside region of Los Angeles, California, founded in 1886 and the oldest neighborhood annexed to the city, in 1915. The 1886 tract was marketed as an agricultural and vacation community. Today it is a primarily residential area, with many apartment buildings, ribbons of commercial zoning and a single-family residential area in its northwest corner. As of the 2000 census the population of Palms was 42,545.
Palms Station, Los Angeles
Palms street layout circa 1893
Station sign from The Palms train depot now located in Heritage Square Museum
Sign denoting the entrance to the Palms neighborhood on Irene Street
Cheviot Hills is a neighborhood on the Westside of the city of Los Angeles, California.
"Terrace View", former residence of actress Agnes Moorehead, as example of typical house in Cheviot Hills
Cheviot Hills in 1928. This house was designed by Eugene R. Ward and was named "Terrace View" by the builder. It was home to Agnes Moorehead in the 1940s and 1950s. (Modern day photo featured earlier in this article)
Raymond and Esther Kabbaz High School of Lycée Français de Los Angeles