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From Sunnylands to the Mission Inn Hotel, here are six places to experience the presidential history of SoCal.
L-R Charlton Heston, James Baldwin, and Marlon Brando at the March on Washington
Last night, we premiered the Oscar-nominated I Am Not Your Negro, a film by Raoul Peck. (Missed it? Stream it here!) Over the course of an…
gilmore stadium
If you know where to look, you can find a few shadows of L.A’.s insatiable need for speed.
Crystal Cathedral, Garden Grove, ca.1980
In 1980, the new glass-and-steel cathedral made a bold statement about Orange County's thriving evangelical community. By 2010, Crystal Cathedral Ministries had filed for bankruptcy.
Mt. Whitney Fish Hatchery can be seen in the background. Photo circa 1916. | California Department of Fish and Wildlife/Flickr
Having survived drought, parasitic infections, infighting over water supply, invasive species and other seemingly insurmountable obstacles, here are the five best places to explore the history of hatching and catching fish over the last 100 years.
Oil derrick Christmas tree, Huntington Beach, 1939
In 1939, an oil company dressed up one of its steel derricks along Huntington Beach as a giant Christmas tree.
pacific rim
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Americans have long looked at the California shore and seen the end of the continent. Instead, this episode interprets that sandy edge as the beginning of a Pacific world.
The Magic of Bill Alexander
How Bill Alexander (a.k.a. "The Happy Painter") brought "The Magic of Oil Painting" to KOCE's audiences.
Looking like "a brown Mercury (whose) heels are winged," as Jack London had called  him  years before in  Hawaii, George Freeth  aquaplaned  with  apparent  effortlessness in September 1916 in  San Diego.
The native Hawaiian moved to California in 1907. He forever changed California and its image to the world.
1842 map of the Pacific Ocean
What does the idea of a "West Coast" mean to migrants who traveled east to get here?
Aerial view of the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach in 1964. Courtesy of the Dick Whittington Photography Collection, USC Libraries.
With many of the imported goods sold across the county at deep discount this Black Friday having passed through the twin seaports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, explore the story of Southern California's unlikely harbor -- and how it came to be divided...
The Green Book
First published in 1936, "The Negro Motorist Green Book" helped African-American motorists safely navigate Jim Crow America.
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