History, Los Angeles County

Who remembers this? When I went looking for info, I learned that McDonald's Big Mac Supper Club was unique to the Los Angeles area. Gue...

This is Venice--you recognized it, right? Windward Avenue. I cropped this picture so you could focus on the colonnaded building. The whole...

More mosaic art by Marlo Bartels--this is Emmy Plaza, outside the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences on Lankershim Blvd in North Hol...

Mosaicist Marlo Bartels has work on display all over the Southland, but somehow I've missed seeing his name. So I'm gonna devote t...

The Lomita Railroad Museum hosts some fascinating talks. Coming up this Thursday, October 18, 2012, is one on "Fred Harvey, His Houses...

We are all celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month through October 15, a fact that usually stays in the back of my consciousness until someone s...

On the Metro Red and Purple lines, on the mezzanine level of the Civic Center Station, are 52 smalti mosaics of people--people playing spor...

Since my last post was about a cemetery tour, let's continue the theme. Forest Lawn's founder, Hubert Eaton, pioneered the "...

Like cemetery tours?  C'mon, admit it!  We all like cemetery tours! The West Adams Heritage Association presents "Entertaining Li...

Two stories for Mosaic Monday. Actually, the first is so multifaceted it's way more than one part. LA Curbed just ran a cycle of sto...