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In the late 1800s, Southern California's first amusement parks offered visitors up-close encounters with an ornithological curiosity: the ostrich.
Call Mama Weiss Los Angeles' first pop-up impresario.
The site of Dodger Stadium was once home to the thriving Mexican-American community of Chavez Ravine.
Today, most of L.A.'s streams have been paved over, buried and converted into storm drains, or eliminated from the landscape altogether.
Losing hundreds of trees in Inglewood and South Central to create a temporary path for a space shuttle is the unkindest cut.
The old Route 66 and surrounding environs are home to fast food history, including Juan Pollo.
In June 1943, L.A. witnessed sailors coursing through the city streets in their Navy uniforms, carrying sticks and targeting anyone wearing a zoot suit.
In 1896, Griffith J. Griffith gave Los Angeles 3,015 acres to create "a place of recreation and rest for the masses."
There was a time when, far from being a defining characteristic of the city's landscape, freeways were merely an experimental impulse of traffic engineers.
Where were you August 11, 1965? Musician Brian O'Neal remembers, in song and story, the day everything changed.
A look back at Los Angeles' two turns in the Olympic spotlight.