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With students from Occidental CollegeEagle Rock is a small crevice of Los Angeles, poking its head between Glendale and Pasadena. In its hay day, thanks…
Departures Participate Education Neighborhoods are where people come to live including you, we want to know your story.Walk
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A growing body of research is reinforcing what public health and housing advocates in Los Angeles have long known: losing your home can be hazardous to your health.
Astrid gets her camera ready to interview a community member as part of her Youth Voices field work.
The Departures Educational Program teaches multimedia production tools and helps students to develop their voice.
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Participants in this month's Drop-in Community Story Lab were invited to explore, meander, and get lost in the community on a Photo DeTour around Venice.
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A quiet documentarian of his time, Charles Brittin photographed Venice in the 1950s and 1960s, leaving an unparalleled record of the social and artistic movements of the era.
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Venice was built under the provision that the beach could never be commercialized so Abbot Kinney built the amusement parks of Venice of America over the ocean.
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Pacific Ocean Park was the last of the great amusement parks in the Santa Monica/Venice area.
Dance marathons became the thing to do is Los Angeles during the 1920s and nowhere was this more popular and visible than in Venice.
Old-time Venice resident and historian Arnold Springer explains who Venice's founder was.
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A quiet documentarian of his time, Charles Brittin photographed Venice in the 1950s and 1960s, leaving an unparalleled record of the social and artistic movements of the era.
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