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Channelization of the Arroyo Seco

For hundreds of years, the Arroyo Seco was a central, life-giving resource for first the Tongva people and then successive waves of settlers. A seasonal tributary of the Los Angeles River, the Arroyo provided water, food, transportation and - perhaps m...

Los Angeles Aqueduct under construction in Owens Valley

Sources of Water

Los Angeles' political and business leaders knew by the late 1800s that the city needed two key ingredients to make it great: more water and a transportation network that would move people and commerce throughout the basin. The transportation question ...

W.P.A. workers demand an increase in wages on the steps of L.A. City Hall

A New Deal

At the onset of the Great Depression, Los Angeles was the land of oil and movies, industries that seemed crash-proof. In just a few years, though, the city was struggling as much as the rest of the country.

A ceremony 'transferring' ownership of the Arroyo Seco Parkway

The History of the Arroyo Seco Parkway

Highland Park is home to many of Los Angeles' firsts. How appropriate, then, that it is also the location of not just the first freeway in California, but in the United States. The Arroyo Seco Parkway began construction in the 1930s after the Automobil...

Transportation - End Of The Line

While the vast streetcar system in Los Angeles was wildly successful since early in the 20th century, it was doomed to extinction in the era of automobiles and bus routes. This change is now referred to as the Great American Streetcar Scandal.

White Flight

As early as the 1920s the predominantly white residents of Highland Park began looking to other areas of Los Angeles for housing. After World War II, this westward drift became a full-on exodus of Anglo middle-class families out of communities like Hi...

Bibliography

Departures: Highland ParkDeLyser, Dydia. Ramona Memories: Tourism and the Shaping of Southern California. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,…

Wet 'n Wild

We've made a pledge to limit ourselves to one animal video per week. Enjoy this week's entry: the slo-mo wet dog show.

You R What U Eat

How do you learn to eat healthy? Just listen to the singing fruits and veggies.

Asian American Comfort Food: Chinese Sausage

There are foods that every culture hold dear, foods that evoke emotions that can take you away from that stressful moment, back to a time of comfort and simplicity.

Villaraigosa Donor Found Guilty of Money Laundering

Such behavior erodes the integrity of our city's elections.

District Issues Take Center Stage At Council District 15 Candidate Forum

Around 100 people came out to hear what some of the candidates for the vacant 15th district city council seat had to say Wednesday night.

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