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Though the last of Los Angeles' famed Red Cars officially retired in 1961, there is still so much Pacific Electric history that can be found in the Southern California landscape — in expected and unexpected places.
Los Angeles is famous for its freeways and traffic jams, but the metropolis actually began as a railtown — and looks like it may become one again soon. This is the story of a railtown's rise, demise and rise again.
Throughout her life, María Guadalupe Evangelina de López had been fighting for women's rights and busting down societal barriers, but it is only now that her contributions are coming to light.
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After internment camps, Japanese Americans made L.A.'s Crenshaw neighborhood their home.
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Dig deep into Southern California’s past to reveal lessons for our climate-changed future.
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Explore a forgotten age when winemaking was Southern California’s principal industry.
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Why did Los Angeles dismantle one of the greatest rail transit systems in the nation?
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Nick Nagatani shoots hoops and reflects on his history with the Yellow Brotherhood
Mark your calendars for an all new season of "Lost LA," premiering Sat, March 19 at 9 p.m. on KCET.
In the late 1800s, Thaddeus Sobieski Constantine Lowe dreamed of a luxury airship that would conquer the skies. But what Lowe had in ambition he lacked in financial investment.
In the late 1800s, logging and grazing in the San Gabriel Mountains threatened the irrigation-based societies in the valley. President Harrison had a solution. Reserving 555,520 acres of the San Gabriel Mountains, effectively creating Angeles National Forest.
At the height of World War II, Southern Californians navigated nights in complete darkness as defense authorities imposed severe dimout restrictions on the region, ordering residents to turn of all lights that could be seen from sea at night.