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Inside the old brick building was a place where the misfits and weirdos could rub shoulders with the locals and the businessmen, sometimes even with the Yakuza.
The slow-motion landslide blocked Riverside Drive where the Golden State (I-5) Freeway now passes Elysian Park. Courtesy of the Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive, Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
A slow-motion, 1.5-million-ton landslide drew huge crowds of spectators.
The First-Beverly Viaduct over Glendale Boulevard in 1956. Courtesy of the Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive, UCLA Library.
The First Street-Beverly Boulevard Viaduct is something of an infrastructural anomaly.
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This week L.A. Letters meditates on the preservation of sites across Literary Los Angeles and why much more of it is needed.
Third Street in 1970, when it was known as the Santa Monica Mall. Courtesy of the Santa Monica Public Library Image Archives.
Since 1965, the pedestrian rather than the automobile has reigned over a three-block stretch of downtown Santa Monica.
Still rural
Photographs from more than 60 years ago have their quota of nostalgia. But they also record the making of a place that satisfied a longing for home.
A circa 1935 postcard of downtown Los Angeles. Courtesy of the Werner von Boltenstern Postcard Collection, Department of Archives and Special Collections, William H. Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University.
A New York import, the term "downtown" arrived in Los Angeles by the late 1870s.
Map by Eric Brightwell
I explored San Diego's Little Italy and found neither to resemble Los Angeles's historic enclave nor the Little Italy of my uninformed imagination.
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A look at the history of the Pacific Electric Red Cars and its ability to ferry working class and communities of color to their jobs and cheap amusements provides a useful primer for the future of Los Angeles transit.
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Before Dodger Stadium, there was Mount Lookout -- one of the best vantage points for sweeping views of Los Angeles.
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Founded by a fun-loving British musician, The Cat & Fiddle has been considered a second home to rich rockers, poor hipsters, intellectuals, artists, preps, and jocks alike.
Bellevue Terrace appears prominently within the larger, trapezoidal Bellevue Terrace Tract in this 1868 map of Beaudry's real estate holdings. Courtesy of the Map Collection - Los Angeles Public Library.
Bellevue Terrace and Beaudry Park could have become jewels of L.A.'s parks system.
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