On a February morning in 1919, a group of citrus growers and law enforcement officers decided to meet inside a packing house in the agricultural town of Charter Oak, 24 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, because of their concerns over a looming problem that threatened the region’s highly profitable citrus industry. Specifically, it was…
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RED BOYLE HEIGHTS: The Cooperative Center and the Open Shop
Blogger’s note on an update: This post was updated on 10/15/2025. I’ve added a single image of an article about the upcoming opening ceremonies for the Cooperative Center, published in The Daily Worker on February 12 ,1925. Not long after it opened in 1925, the three-story Cooperative Center at Brooklyn Avenue and Mott Street…