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.
Old maps show that two towns, Hollywood and Colegrove, once made up modern-day Hollywood.
Completed in 1900, the 18-mile cycleway paralleled rutted wagon roads, traversed bucolic fields and meadows, and gave Los Angeles cyclists their first reliable route to the sea.
Long associated with Southern California's romantic mission past, the pepper tree was once the region's most iconic tree.
In its early years, scented lemon groves surrounded a crossroads destined for fame but bearing an unfamiliar name.
Remnants of the incline railway, which helped turn Avalon into a destination resort, still await adventurous explorers on Catalina's hillsides.
Until 1889, Orange and Los Angeles counties were one.
Black bears may be a surprisingly recent arrival to Southern California, but larger and more terrifying bears once roamed the Los Angeles area.
A famous family of child actors became a family of news photographers, creating an indispensable visual record of 20th-century Los Angeles.
From the 1880s through the 1920s, Southern Californians plunged into large, indoor pools just steps away from the Pacific Ocean.
How did a real estate developer transform Mt. Washington's chaparral slopes into a residential community?
Elysian Park, one of L.A.'s oldest parks, exists today because its rugged land was considered worthless.
Native to the Los Angeles area, sycamores can grow to massive proportions, inspiring romantic tales and standing as tangible connections to the region's past.