Hadley Meares
Hadley Meares is a writer, historian, and singer who traded one Southland (her home state of North Carolina) for another. She is a frequent contributor to Curbed and Atlas Obscura, and leads historical tours all around Los Angeles for Obscura Society LA. Her debut novel, "Absolutely," is now available on Amazon.
From its inception, the castle was a building begging for a legend. Almost eighty years after its construction, it finally got its wish. And it got it in spades.
Believed to be one of the oldest private family cemeteries in Los Angeles, it went in and out of the hands of the Workman and Temple families before it was purchased by the City of Industry in 1963.
The struggling genius didn't only know how to write stories. He was also good at keeping a party going for over a decade.
The 1913 structure in the foothills of the Verdugo Mountains was to be the center of a tight-knit community of small, co-operative farms which would be self-sustaining and environmentally kind.
Born into humble circumstances, he had ascended to the heights of his time, until his vision of the world consumed him and limited his views of all that was possible.
African American, Japanese, Armenian, Mexican, Irish, French, Jewish, English, Scottish, Union, Confederate -- all are represented at this first privately operated cemetery in Los Angeles, opened in 1877.
She represents our country at its best and most unified, and looking out on the lawns filled with citizens of all nationalities and economic classes, it seems she couldn't have picked a better spot.
How an Indian guru found his spiritual home in an abandoned hotel on top of Mount Washington in Northeast Los Angeles.
The Mount St. Mary's campus was once L.A.'s wealthiest gated community.
The 1928 failure resulted in one of the worst civic disasters in L.A. history.
Jack Lalanne, for better or for worse, revolutionized home cooking -- and peoples' understanding of nutrition -- in America.