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The Biltmore was meant to confer "real-city" status on Los Angeles when it opened in 1923.
Since 1953 more than 300 magazines and newspapers serving the LGBTQ communities have been published in Los Angeles.
On the morning of April 27, 1863, a boat ferrying San Francisco-bound passengers exploded in the middle of L.A.'s harbor.
In 1910, a colorful inventor cleared a swath through his Burbank orchard and built an experimental monorail, the Aerial Swallow.
Until the Daughters arrived in 1856, L.A. offered few social services for the sick, poor, and orphaned.
The Orange County amusement park started as a roadside fruit stand.
Cecil B. DeMille had already pioneered one Los Angeles industry, and in 1920 he was on the cusp of launching another.
Whether they produce legendary burgers, crunchy tacos, or masterful flapjacks, these five restaurants all had one thing in common — a birthplace in Southern California.
Why would L.A. conceal its gleaming concrete dam in the Hollywood Hills beneath dirt and vegetation?
The phenomenon of the megachurch began in no less coastal and cosmopolitan a city than Los Angeles.
Its May 30, 1897 test drive marked the dawn of the automobile age in Los Angeles.
Until quite recently, the Valley was a sparsely populated agricultural hinterland, just over the hill from Los Angeles.