History, Los Angeles County

Huzzah! The LA Conservancy is presenting another Millard Sheets tour; this one covers Claremont and Pomona. The tour will feature some of th...

Peter Stults and Sean Hartter designed these movie posters, which are showing up on a lot of ad blogs. Mediabistro pointed me toward one, b...

Argghhh! Can't believe I forgot Mosaic Monday! And there is no holiday to blame it on. Well, I did get called before noon to pick up a ...

Wow...old pictures of Farmer's Market and Wilshire Blvd. in the early 1950s. Hollywood in the 40s, and even earlier. Then of course, the...

This incredible mosaic adorned the Long Beach Municipal Auditorium, where it was installed in 1938. Today, it's on the Long Beach Plaza ...

I'm plugging a book and a book signing. You're welcome. Marvin J. Wolf will be signing copies of his new book, the first in the Rabb...

Over two years ago I blogged about Joseph Young's History of Mathematics mosaic panels (16 in all) on the Math Building at UCLA. Here...

Those fun-loving folks of the Los Angeles Paranormal Association will be investigating Pico House again this January (they did it last year...

One week before the Rose Parade, this seems appropriate. The rose mosaic at the Garfield Promenade of Paseo Colorado -- as well as the small...

If you think the name is creepy, wait'll you hear that one resident was a suspect in a gruesome murder...but let's start at the begi...