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LA's First Aircraft Company Rented Space in an Abandoned Movie Studio
The film industry fled to Los Angeles to escape Thomas Edison's East Coast patent monopoly on movie cameras. A decade later, Donald Douglas founded Douglas Aircraft in 1921 by literally renting space in an abandoned movie studio, for nearly identical reasons.
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