History, Los Angeles County

Eurochow is now Yamato , as S. Irene Vibila's very inviting review in the Los Angeles Times tells us. And it's a good thing she te...

The Arizona, which we all know sank in Pearl Harbor with nearly 1,200 crew men in 1941, was actually a 25-year-old battleship by then. It wa...

Kwanzaa started right here in Los Angeles County in 1966. The first mention of it in the L.A. Times, as far as I can tell, was not until D...

The Los Angeles Times put this photo on the front page of the California section 12/20/07, with a story about how the photographer, Howard...

In 1980, an odd building opened just south of the 405 on Crenshaw Blvd. in Torrance. It looked like a turn-of-the-century courthouse, alth...

The Daily Breeze , Long Beach Press Telegram , and who knows how many others published compact histories of the small local airports on 12/...

Sometimes kitsch is so lovely it makes you cry. The Los Angeles Times West Magazine ran a photo-essay on December 9. Bakers created their ow...

A 1930s picture of the Pantages Theater from the Los Angeles Library SPNB Collection. I believe that's the Equitable Building, now the ...

In 1936, LAPD Chief James Davis--fed up with a lack of action by federal and state authorities--mobilized the Los Angeles Police and sent t...

With the Los Angeles Coliseum in the news, here's something you probably don't know about the structure: Two years passed between ...