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Uncertainty clouds our memory of Jan. 13, 1847, when Andrés Pico and John C. Frémont signed a document variously called the Capitulation of Cahuenga or Treaty of Cahuenga.
Mexican California's last governor built Los Angeles' first luxury hotel, the Pico House.
A conversation about "Her," the Bradbury Building, JPL, Octavia Butler, and imagining utopic and dystopic futures for the City of Angels.
In 1926, Al G. Barnes' circus became the independent municipality of Barnes City. A year later, Los Angeles annexed it.
Though extremely rare, tropical cyclones have pummeled California in the past.
![[Looking north from City Hall tower]. Los Angeles: 1932-33 by Anton Wagner, PC 17, California Historical Society.](https://kcet.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/10af79b/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1920x1080+0+171/resize/1536x864!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fkcet-brightspot.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Flegacy%2Fsites%2Fkl%2Ffiles%2Fthumbnails%2Fimage%2Fcity_hall.jpg)
How could a city with so many environmental challenges thrive beyond all expectations? Armed with a camera and notebook, one German PhD candidate walked the streets of Depression-era Los Angeles to find out.
The train tunnel in this 1898 film is now where Interstate 10 turns into Pacific Coast Highway.
On Dec. 31, 1897, a photographer for the Edison Manufacturing Company captured a lively downtown scene on Spring Street.
No matter what you learned in fourth grade, California Indians didn't vanish when the '49ers arrived.
The first LAPD officer killed in the line of duty was shot by a fellow officer over a reward for recovering a runaway Chinese prostitute.
Something must be done with the LAPD's former home on Los Angeles St., either to make its presence more felt or to erase its image from memory.
California was (and is) such a land of opportunity that if you wanted to live in a castle, you could just build one yourself. And fortunately for the rest of us, you need not be a Sir or a Lady to go visit any of these six great castles in California.