Saturday, March 29, 2008

Park La Brea Anniversary

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On March 30, 1948, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company announced the development of " ParkLaBrea " (all one word) a collectio...

Artfully Dodgers

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A story about Chavez Ravine and its former residents, another about Steve Garvey clicking in the infield, and a 2-page spread about the Dodg...
Thursday, March 27, 2008

Radio History

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Is the old KFWB studio on Yucca a public nuisance, and w ill it be demolished next week? The Los Angeles Times posed these questions in a...
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Sunday, March 23, 2008

High Hopes in 1954 for a Monorail

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Since describing the 1951 plan for a monorail a couple of weeks ago ( here ), I've come across a couple of 1954 articles rounding out th...
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Addella Walker, Police Woman

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LAPD Patrolman Samuel L. Walker died during the Influenza Pandemic of 1918. He left behind a wife, Addella , also ill with the flu, and th...
Friday, March 14, 2008

During the Earthquake

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The 1933 Los Angeles Tim es ran a Hollywood version of earthquake trivia, a week after the March 10 temblor. Among the gems: Groucho Marx ...
Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Long Beach Earthquake of 1933

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On March 10, the Los Angeles Times and other publication recalled the 75 th anniversary of the Long Beach earthquake that killed over 100 p...
Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Monorails Again

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Good ideas just keep coming back (and we keep ignoring them). A Los Angeles monorail system, first proposed in 1887 (see post ) and again i...

Lack of Time, not of History

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Apologize for the low activity on this hub--urgent family emergencies (good emergencies, though) have kept me busy!
Wednesday, March 5, 2008

The Floods of '38

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Five days of heavy rains left 200 people dead in the five counties of Southern California, 70 years ago. The Los Angeles Times blog, TheDa...
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