History, Los Angeles County

Off the 110 in San Pedro, along one of the many slopes that are left to grow wild in San Pedro and the Peninsula -- which is riddled with ...

This is not a Los Angeles-centric post. Several artists, like Mads Madsen of Denmark , spend hours, days, and weeks colorizing historical...

A selection of great articles on LA history came up. And while this blog is largely inactive, why not share? The first four cemeteries i...

Ancient Hobo Graffiti Found in L.A. Some of you may remember hearing about hobos when you were children. Before I knew about real homele...

Here are some wonderful articles about our city, most worthy of your attention. But first, an upcoming event: Were the '90s L.A.'...

In June of 1911, the Los Angeles Times  reported a mystical event taking place at a homestead near Whittier. "Mexicans as well as the...

Today's guest post is from Lee Gale Gruen, a docent at the Page Museum and La Brea Tar Pits , (the picture at right is of the Tar Pits...

This is the week before my own birthday, so maybe that's why I am so struck by the number of historic anniversaries that occur this week...

" . . . the lights of Los Angeles jumped up, running from north to south as far as I could see, and hanging around on the hills and m...

Remember when Trashy Lingerie showed up on La Cienega in the early 70s? Where did they come up with that name? Or the Apple Pan, for tha...

This is a clip from an upcoming documentary on Johnny Martinez--to be shown Thursday, December 12 at 10:30 pm on the ARTBOUND show . For ...

Ah, me. Don't we miss the quaint and lovely ostrich ostrich farms of Old Los Angeles? You know about them. right? No? While we all ...

Torrance's own home-town hero for the past . . . well, 70 years if you want to count from his Olympic career, is pictured below with Ang...

Ah, the good old days. When the poor sent their children out barefoot to sell newspapers on street corners, instead of coddling the little...

It's Monday at 4:30 pm and I am just now getting through three days of emails, each with attendant tasks . . . so in lieu of shortchangi...

Are they mosaics? How could they not be? Look at these pictures! Seventeen structures make up the Watts Towers, with three tall towers ...

It's not from Los Angeles, but this is kinda neat: The picture at right is a closeup of a mosaic made of Legos. Since this is a Chri...

I'm going to let Mosaic Monday take a bye this week in favor of a huge announcement: My new historical novel, Death Speaker , is publ...

The American Heart Association has dubbed the first Wednesday in April National Walking Day. And I'm just cynical enough to wonder how ...

Mosaic Monday will have to wait till Tuesday, but it is special. Really. Meanwhile, I offer this picture taken at the San Pedro Christmas Pa...