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Explore the world beneath King Eddy and see how alcohol got into L.A. during Prohibition.
Host Nathan Masters ducks inside the bar's Del Monte Speakeasy, as well as gets a taste of the bar's 100-year-old whiskey.
In 1919, Congress passed the Volstead Act, the 18th Amendment’s liquor ban. Despite the Prohibition the liquor continued to flow in the Southland, along with the sun and waves and a few secret tunnels.
On January 17, 1920 fourteen years of Prohibition began. What began as a grand, noble experiment quickly turned sour. See some of the strange goings-on in Los Angeles during that short-lived period.
Prohibition was a dark chapter in Los Angeles history. But thankfully, the city was never really dry. Some L.A. landmarks that didn’t just survive Prohibition –– they thrived, running wetter than ever.
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Life in the internment camps couldn't have been easy, but incarcerees still found way to find some measure of happiness in their surroundings, one of which was through baseball.
Life in internment camps wasn't easy, but incarcerees still found way to find some measure of happiness, one of which was through baseball.
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In 1961, around the Memorial Day holiday, the Merry-Go-Round at Griffith Park wasn't so merry; it became the site of a race riot that challenged Griffith J. Griffith's vision of a park for the people.
Griffith J. Griffith was an outsized figure in Los Angeles society in the early 1900s. Now best known for the massive green space he donated to the city — Griffith Park — Griffith J. Griffith also tackled with a darker side to his personality.
Toyo Miyatake's photographs provide an intimate window into the world of Japanese Americans in Los Angeles in its darkest times in Manzanar and through its most joyous occasions. Learn about the man behind the lens.
Paul Kitagaki, Jr. excavates the almost-forgotten stories of the Japanese American incarceration during World War II. His photographs and oral histories are an attempt to keep the painful, but important memories of that troubled past alive.
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Host Nathan Masters and photographer Paul Kitakagi, Jr. visit the first grave at Manzanar.