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In the early 20th century, countless visitors toured Los Angeles on the red cars of the Pacific Electric's Balloon Route.
A proposed ballot measure seeks to slow down development in Los Angeles. As the city debates its future, D.J. Waldie considers the lessons we can draw from its past.
Real cowboys waiting to be hired as Hollywood extras once hung out at the site of the Western-themed strip mall.
Here's why you should celebrate a swarm of these.
For decades, Asian immigrant investors have pushed boundaries of urban and economic development in Greater L.A.
Long before Technicolor or Kodachrome, audiences gathered in darkened spaces and saw Los Angeles in vibrant, even surreal, color.
Boxing halls were once as numerous as movie theaters in Los Angeles, and a young Mexican-American prize fighter named Bobby Herman was among the star attractions.
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A look at the figure that inspired the best-selling novel, "Island of the Blue Dolphins."
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A look at the period in history when the Chicago Cubs' held their spring training on Catalina Island.
Elysian Valley got its moniker from the many four-legged amphibians that used the crawl into the neighborhood. But they weren't frogs.
A friend of archivist Charles Lummis, Manuela García was unmatched in her contributions to the earliest recordings of Mexican folk songs in Southern California.
In 1908, journalist Charles Fletcher Lummis campaigned against the many ways English tongues were butchering the Spanish name.