The Spanish land grants like San Rafael, Los Feliz, San Pascual, San Pedro, San Antonio, ... By the time Mexico was finished doling out land, there were over 770 more ranchos on the maps.

Go back to the turn-of-the-century maps of Los Angeles to find the old ranchos, or to the '40s and '50s to see old Pacific Electric lines. ... or of Los Feliz spelled Los Felis.

The phone jangles in the bright white-walled computer shop off Hillhurst Avenue, and Ariel Belkin picks it up. "Los FEE-lus Hi-Tech," he says. "This is Ariel." After the call comes his confession ...

The first of several beautiful maps done by the Title Insurance Company evokes the “romance” of ranchos that once dotted the state.

In 1882, Col. Griffith J. Griffith acquired 4,071 acres of Rancho Los Feliz from the Lick estate and donated 3,000 of them to the city of Los Angeles.

At the time a hilly portion of Los Feliz, then called Rancho Los Feliz, was owned by the bachelor Don Antonio Feliz. He had no children of his own, but he had a niece named Petranilla who he was ...

The rich may live in Beverly Hills, but the boho-rich prefer Los Feliz, which often is associated with starving-artist types but actually is one of the most prosperous areas in the city. With ...