The Bicycle Hotel and Casino. (Via Google Earth) Authorities from several federal agencies served a search warrant on Tuesday morning at the Bicycle Hotel & Casino in Bell Gardens, reports ABC7.
April 6, 2017. One hundred years ago this week, the United States entered World War I after President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war against Germany to âmake the word safe for democracy.â Unlike Europe, America did not enter the war for survival.
Yet it was here that, from a British perspective, two of the most poignant events of the First World War occurred. Both the first British soldier to be killed, Pte John Parr, and the last, Pte George Ellison â the latter less than two hours before the Armistice ceasefire was announced on November 11, 1918 â died here.