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When the ramp opened sometime around 1905, it was the first automobile shortcut over the cliffs separating Santa Monica from its beach.
Designed to connect San Francisco and Santa Cruz, the incomplete Ocean Shore Railroad offered one of the most scenic rides in California. But it did not last long.
In the late 1970, young gay men from the Eastside found their identity on the disco dance floors of Hollywood.
Though California was technically a "free state" in the 1850s, its laws blessed a system that amounted to slavery for Native people.
Most Southern Californians have only a murky understanding of the groundwater aquifers they rely upon – and the political bodies that manage them.
If you’re interested in piecing together what life might’ve been like in Southern California before it was The Golden State, here are five great sites to learn about and experience the region's Native American heritage.
The legendary designers arrived in Los Angeles in July 1941. The city's aerospace and entertainment industries would help them define the mid-century modern look.
Ronald Reagan won his first election a half-century ago. How can California's 1966 gubernatorial race help us understand the 2016 presidential election?
We’ve gotten used to L.A.’s "littles" and "towns." In southeast L.A. County are lesser-known ethnic communities that continue to hybridize with suburban Los Angeles. Milk made two of them: Bellflower and Artesia, where Holland and the Azores met.
Natural lakes are a rarity in Southern California but maybe it doesn’t matter if a lake in LA is “real” or not. Whether it’s fishing, boating, birding, or picnicking, here are six great bodies of water we call “lakes” of greater LA.
Much of the raw material for L.A.'s freeways and concrete structures comes from Irwindale, where rock, sand, and gravel mining has long dominated the local economy.
Newcomers from Iowa famously congregated each year in Southern California for their state picnic. Such gatherings were important for migrants from other parts of the world, too.