History, Los Angeles County

From the 110 Freeway, the Southwest Museum looks impressive. Charles Fletcher Lummis , once the Los Angeles city librarian who edited the fo...

Even at the Huntington, skulking around outside the Archives show! You know how you feel when you walk into a museum lobby, really excited ...

An embarrassment of riches is offered to Angelenos with a love of history or place this weekend. Apart from the Huntington Garden's fre...

A dedicated archivist (is there any other kind?) named Hynda L. Rudd somehow managed the production of a huge book titled The Development o...

In an earlier post about population density , I mentioned the Lankershim Hotel. That building was on the corner of Broadway and 7th. Before...

A quote from the HereInVanNuys blog: What kind of a city would LA be if it had $450 billion to spend on public transportation, law enforcem...

If the sea rises by a meter over the next hundred years (as scientists predict it will), how does that affect Los Angeles? A report from Ari...

Los Angeles has 6,500 miles of street--did you know that? Emily Gabel - Luddy is now head of L.A.'s Urban Design Studio.--not a museum...

In the mid-80s, the Lakewood Mall was a fun place to shop and eat. I haven't been back in decades, literally, but a press release annou...

Dragon Wars . . . It may be the most gawd-awful movie since Godzilla Versus Megalon, but this is a cool picture! (double click for bigger v...