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Inside the old brick building was a place where the misfits and weirdos could rub shoulders with the locals and the businessmen, sometimes even with the Yakuza.
A slow-motion, 1.5-million-ton landslide drew huge crowds of spectators.
The First Street-Beverly Boulevard Viaduct is something of an infrastructural anomaly.
This week L.A. Letters meditates on the preservation of sites across Literary Los Angeles and why much more of it is needed.
Since 1965, the pedestrian rather than the automobile has reigned over a three-block stretch of downtown Santa Monica.
Photographs from more than 60 years ago have their quota of nostalgia. But they also record the making of a place that satisfied a longing for home.
A New York import, the term "downtown" arrived in Los Angeles by the late 1870s.
I explored San Diego's Little Italy and found neither to resemble Los Angeles's historic enclave nor the Little Italy of my uninformed imagination.
A look at the history of the Pacific Electric Red Cars and its ability to ferry working class and communities of color to their jobs and cheap amusements provides a useful primer for the future of Los Angeles transit.
Before Dodger Stadium, there was Mount Lookout -- one of the best vantage points for sweeping views of Los Angeles.
Founded by a fun-loving British musician, The Cat & Fiddle has been considered a second home to rich rockers, poor hipsters, intellectuals, artists, preps, and jocks alike.
Bellevue Terrace and Beaudry Park could have become jewels of L.A.'s parks system.