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Historical photos reveal a region literally being torn apart by the great forces of plate tectonics.
Entrepreneurs built summit resort camps in the San Gabriel Mountains to lure the throngs of weekend trekkers into an unforgettable overnight stay.
Broadway may be one of L.A.'s oldest streets – laid out by a surveyor in 1849 – but until 1890, Angelenos knew it only as Fort Street.
Los Angeles spent much of 2013 looking back -- an exercise informed and enriched by the archival collections of L.A. as Subject member institutions.
Sushi was initially a fast food item, meant to be eaten quickly -- goodness how it's changed over the centuries!
Building gingerbread houses became popular after the Brothers Grimm published Hansel and Gretel in 1812. Within a short period of time, candy-decorated gingerbread houses were a German tradition, and soon after that the tradition migrated to Pennsylvan...
Planted as seedlings in 1885, the glittering deodar cedars of Christmas Tree Lane originally shaded a private driveway through an Altadena ranch.
For decades, Broadway Place was a charming quirk in the downtown street grid, forming a triangle-shaped block between Broadway and Main Street.
"I drove down to headquarters. That's the way a lot of us think about Schwab's. Kind of a combination office, coffee klatch and waiting room. Waiting, waiting for the gravy train."
How do you tell a story about Thanksgiving through a photograph? At newspapers, the answer once involved a turkey, a person, and some sort of a weapon.
Pasadena's beautiful, arched Colorado Street Bridge bears more than a passing resemblance to an ancient Roman aqueduct.