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Whether it was a parade, dance, tea party, home celebration or just enjoying a good ol' wee dram of whisky, here's a photo essay of how Los Angeles donned its green apparel to celebrate St. Patrick's Day and embrace the luck o' the Irish over the years.
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March 8 marks International Women's Day around the world, seeking to end gender discrimination, violence and abuse.
As snow flurries dot the skies over Los Angeles during a record-breaking winter storm — and accumulation occurs at as low as 1000 feet of elevation — here's a look back at some of the historic snowfall in L.A. throughout the 20th century, including vintage images of snowball fights, snowmen and more.
Tyre Nichols' death from police brutality underscores the troubled history of specialized police units like Memphis Police Department's SCORPION team and Los Angeles Police Department's Rampart CRASH.
Forgetting is famously what Los Angeles does best. But despite erasure, memories do have a place in Los Angeles. Some are official monuments. Some are in ruins and need critical excavation. Some require the imagination to be seen. Here are some places of memory lost to time.
Edward Roybal served his constituents as California's first Latino in Congress for 30 years, yet it was his work as a Los Angeles City Councilman that not only laid the foundation for his national career but also speaks to a number of issues affecting Angelenos today.
Booster optimism, unregulated stock speculation, a culture of civic corruption, the power of new advertising media and the cunning of stock promoters fed the Julian Pete swindle — a scandal that defrauded tens of thousands of investors of over $150 million.
While poinsettias had already been available at nurseries across the U.S. and Los Angeles, it was the Ecke family who transformed the poinsettia market from selling cut flowers as bouquets to selling them as indoor potted plants for Christmas.
On May 22, 1958, a series of oil spills and explosions ignited the Hancock Oil Refinery in Signal Hill, burning for two days and sending thick plumes of black smoke into the air. Writer D.J. Waldie, who was 9-years-old at the time of the fires, recalls the explosive event.
In the mid-1800s, public clocks served as type of civic authority as they centralized the town's time while introducing the idea of organizing days around the hours and minutes of clock time.
The socially and historically complex Terminal Island has become a mono-culture of standardized, containerized commerce. Writer D.J. Waldie recounts a personal history of a once scruffy seaside that is now the nation’s top cargo port.
Every year, Southern California museums, libraries and archives come together at the annual Archives Bazaar to exhibit historic items and artifacts. Here are 8 collections and historical organizations whose archives tell a fascinating story of L.A.