Annie Powers
Annie Powers is an assistant editor of Boom and a Ph.D. student in history at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on culture and violence in the nineteenth century United States. She also dabbles in pop culture and memory in modern California.
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In 1915, just two years after the L.A. Aqueduct opened, Julius Goodwin Oliver and William Henry Frick packed up their Ford Model T and drove north from Hollywood to see where their water came from.