History, Los Angeles County

Here are some spooky goings-on this month. Of course, you can sit home, watch slasher movies, and eat up all the Halloween candy until you f...

Today's mosaic ornaments the back entrance of Vromans Bookstore in Pasadena. The store--a veritable institution--has been around since...

Starbucks was a local Seattle coffee bar, Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf a West LA site, and Diedrich's only outlet was a roastery in Orange...

Today's mosaic is one you can walk through--literally. It has doorways. "Illumination" was installed in 2006 to celebrate the ...

A picture from Shorpy.com to remind us boomers how old we are becoming much our Southern California has changed.  Ha! Who didn't have ...

The animals on the exterior wall of the Millard Sheets Center for Fine Arts were done by artist Wayne Long. If I'd blown up my own pictu...

Since the Los Angeles County Fair is on (well, not today. The Fair is dark Monday and Tuesday), this Mosaic Monday post will focus on the de...

Since I completely missed Mosaic Monday this week, I will instead post photos of about one-third of  Millard Sheets' Rose Parade Mural t...

Sorry, I know this is supposed to be history. But these photos were taken around 9am Sept. 22, 2010, just south of the Redondo Beach pier. W...

Yay! Another publication!  The November 2010 issue of Air & Space Magazine features my article on Robert Spence and Spence Air Photos, ...