Nathan Masters
Nathan Masters is host and executive producer of Lost L.A., an Emmy Award-winning public television series from KCET and the USC Libraries. The show explores how rare artifacts from Southern California's archives can unlock hidden and often-surprising stories from the region's past. Nathan’s writing has appeared in many publications, including Los Angeles Magazine and the Los Angeles Times. He also helps manage public programs and media initiatives at the USC Libraries, home to the L.A. as Subjectresearch consortium.
Los Angeles spent much of 2013 looking back -- an exercise informed and enriched by the archival collections of L.A. as Subject member institutions.
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.
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.
Its shape was not all that made the Rainbow Pier unique.
Author Christine Rice's account of her 15-year research journey is a helpful reminder that much of L.A.'s history remains hidden, awaiting discovery by dogged researchers.
It's named like a rail line and looks like one on Metro maps, but you won't find tracks along this 18-mile transit corridor through the San Fernando Valley. But take a look back in time and there's a different story.
In the 1930s, Los Angeles extended Wilshire Boulevard through a dense urban area, bulldozing buildings and sacrificing a popular park.
Historical photos reveal the humble origins of famous L.A. roadways like Sunset Blvd and PCH.
Construction workers moved 8 million cubic yards of earth and rock, refashioning the rugged terrain once known as the Stone Quarry Hills into a modern sports palace fit for October baseball.
A quiet country crossroads in 1885, by 1928 Wilshire and Western had reportedly become the nation's busiest intersection.