History, Los Angeles County

You know they're there . . . I've blogged about them before . . . They've been on local TV . . . But now they're in t...

OK, this isn't so much about a call for papers as it is an oppor- tunity to show this really cool oblique aerial photo-graph that acco...

"I never bought a tile," says Geogr Ehling.  No, in the 44 years he's been working on his house (46 now), he has used tiles ...

So, Studio City . . . besides mosaics, what else you got? Duh. The name is Studio City. So here are some pictures of CBS Studio Center. ...

The San Fernando Valley has its share of former Home Savings and Loan buildings, most of them now Chase Banks. And this one, in Studio City ...

. . . not that I want to. But seriously. And I don't even want to know what other mall shoppers thought of the crazy lady taking pic...

Today's mosaic harkens back to the 33rd Olympiad, right here in Los Angeles in 1984. Who remembers that? I do, I do! And not for the at...

Shorpy displayed this photo , which originally ran in Look Magazine , of a scene being shot in Culver City for the Dr. Kildare TV show. ...

I've been reading about this house for a couple of years so it was a treat to actually see it myself. No point in being cagey about...

... which I never did as a kid. These pictures were taken at the house that once belonged to my grandmother, back in the 60s. I don'...