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Fred Sands and Daniel Thompson: Boyle Heights Figures Who Made History

Posted on October 29, 2015March 15, 2022Author Paul SpitzzeriPosted in UncategorizedLeave a Reply

This week the Los Angeles Times included an obituary of Fred C. Sands, who was one of the most successful real estate tycoons in Los Angeles (another more colorful figure in that word also from Boyle Heights is Donald Sterling.)  Sands, who was born in New York, moved to Boyle Heights at age 7 in 1945 and…

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