History, Los Angeles County

A few last bits of 1960 convention trivia before the window of opportunity slams shut: JFK gave his acceptance speech On July 15, 1960 in th...

TV coverage of the 1960 Democratic Convention in Los Angeles was anchored by Brinkley and Huntley, of course. Here's the state-of-the-ar...

Here's a headline from the Los Angeles Times of July 5, 1960--just before the Democratic convention convened in our fair city: KENNEDY ...

As of this date in 1938, the Orpheum Theatre on Broadway was playing both movies and vaudeville shows. You could spend your quarter on Boo...

On August 9, someone made off with the bronze bust of George Freeth that stood on a pedestal near the Redondo Beach pier. Read more about t...

Engineer Bill has died. I think I'm more surprised that the dear man was still alive until August 12. He was 97, according to the Los A...

Steve Lopez' column on the woes of the Antonio family and their Highland Park market Los Paisanos brings up questions: Graffiti or art ?...

Strictly speaking, this isn't Los Angeles. It's Rancho Cucamonga, which is just outside the county line by ten miles or so. One of ...

The buildings, anyway. I think that I shall never see A grocery-store ATM as lovely as mason-ry. In todays Times , Mark Kendall writes of ...

Another gem from Shorpy . Here's what the caption says: September 1942. "Learning how to determine latitude by using a sextant is ...