History, Los Angeles County

And–the eBook is FREE from November 29 through the following Monday, December 2nd. Plus, I’ve joined some new program on Amazon where, i...

A friend sent me these--thanks, Dan! Pictures of our fair city from 1898 through the 1960s, on Imgur.com I have no idea what Imgur is, but...

Today's Mystery Mosaic adorns a building in Long Beach, at 3728 Atlantic--just down the street from the Historical Society of Long Be...

Ah, me. Don't we miss the quaint and lovely ostrich ostrich farms of Old Los Angeles? You know about them. right? No? While we all ...

Torrance's own home-town hero for the past . . . well, 70 years if you want to count from his Olympic career, is pictured below with Ang...

This post will not be about the Long Beach Airport WPA mosaics, because I've blogged about them before, here and here . No, today...

Warning: woman with camera and a book on birds. I believe these are Chinese Geese. Both of them, the brownish and the white, match p...

I mentioned a book  titled Quest for Flight: John J. Montgomery and the Dawn of Aviation in the West almost a year ago, and today I heard...

Happy Mosaic Monday! Today's mosaic adorns a 1927 building in East Los Angeles, although the tile mosaic itself was installed much la...

What do you know about the Arts District? If you're like me, not a whole lot. I suppose there's artsy stuff there, right? Well, ...