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In this episode, "Lost LA" examines how the modern metropolis has reshaped its own topography. The program explores downtown L.A.'s lost hills and tunnels, as well as the vanished canals of Venice Beach.
L.A. and its surrounding valleys sit upon thousands of feet of thick sediment deposited by eons of floodwaters.
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In this episode, "Lost LA" explores the various ways Southern California's inhabitants have used the hills around Dodger Stadium.
Surveyors once named L.A. boulevards after American presidents and governors of the Mexican California.
As anyone who's ever set out to build in Los Angeles knows, things aren't always as simple as they seem. A vision becomes reality at a glacial pace, which can be a good or bad thing.
What did our restaurant forefathers serve for Thanksgiving dinner?
In the late 1850s, saloons imported the town's first commercially available ice, which rarely occurs naturally in Los Angeles.
Many things in L.A. will spike your curiosity.
How did Southern Californians come to treat their highway route numbers as if they were proper names?
UC Irvine's campus, now 50 years old, was unlike any that preceded it.