History, Los Angeles County

A May 29, 1960 article in the Los Angeles Times talks about how many dollars will be pumped into LA's economy due to the upcoming Democ...

The Los Angeles Times story on the acquisition of the Fine Arts Building by CNN commentator/attorney Mark Geragos and Brian Kabateck is fu...

"[City] Manager William Dunkerley , Secretary Jessie L. Ogston , and [Edwin C.] Heath of the Chamber of Commerce are all frank about w...

How did I miss this last month? Johnie's Broiler in Downey is to become a Bob's Big Boy ( Googie restaurants take care of their ow...

. . . as long as no one passes around a new photo. This thumbnail is from Barbarella, of course; on imdb . The Los Angeles Times has a pho...

On May 17, 1955, Disney Studios had to warn the public and all the banks : Someone was passing bogus checks drawn on the Disneyland Inc acco...

This month marks 100 years since work began on the Santa Monica Pier, according to a story in the Daily Breeze (and its co-papers): "...

A huge regret: I've never taken pictures of jacarandas in bloom, arching over a street like giant puffs of cotton candy (and just as sti...

As we worry about new area codes splitting communities and overlays, here's a bit of history to prove that nothing ever stays the same....

With all the focus on Hollywood, how sad to read of Robert Nudelman's untimely death (untimely in the sense that he was younger than me...