The workmen building the Janss Steps on what was then the new campus of UCLA (University of California Los Angeles) in the Westwood part of LA would probably never have guessed what would eventually come to fill that wide-open pastoral landscape stretched in front of them. The college’s early students and faculty must have felt they were out in the boonies.
I guess the steps got their name from an LA investment company:
Here is roughly the same view in July 2016:
The slope next to Janss Steps is where they used to do ski class. They’d lay straw down to simulate the sliding effect. Looked pretty weird though!