History, Los Angeles County

Click here to enjoy, in glorious Technicolor, 8 and 1/2 minute movie of Los Angeles in 1935 --full of "architectural oddities" and...

In 1960, Steve Allen had an idea for a talk show in which the guests would be the great figures of history. Like, well, William Shakespeare,...

Catholic or not, everyone's probably heard the Biblical tale of how Jesus walked on the waters of the Sea of Galilee during a storm one ...

Can U C M? Squawking away at friends hidden in the fronds? One of the fearsome wild parrots of the South Bay, caught by my intrepid clicking...

Another community mosaic project! This one is in Lomita--2161 Lomita Blvd to be exact, at the northeast corner of Lomita & Narbonne. Tha...

Sounds so poetic, doesn't it? Like a Victorian melodrama. Here's the picture of the event, taken in 1870. That is Temple Street at t...

Something new! These steps leading up from the International Boardwalk in Redondo Beach (sorta) to the Village Condos were just installed la...

This beautiful mosaic sits over the entrance of the Wells Fargo Bank on Torrance Blvd., just west of PCH.  My guess is that the SH is Millar...

There be a lovely art deco building on the South side of Wilshire, in the block east of Cochran. This is a picture of it in 1939courtesy of ...

This adorns the exterior wall of the Fun Fish Market in Redondo Beach. I suspect that the word "fun" has a slightly different conn...