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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…
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A skeptical public had heard rumors of Kinney's eccentric re-development ideas in the coastal marshlands of Southern California, but no one took him seriously.
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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.
Heath care cuts in East Los Angeles, one family at a time.
In this Departures installment, the team searches for youths with a strong attachment to historic Chinatown.
The kids working on the next Departures are learning the L.A. River is a place where graffiti speaks, and birds mingle between the moss and storm drains.
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Alicia Katano explaining the issue of pollution in the Los Angeles along with a slideshow showing various examples of non-point pollution.
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Built in less than three decades' time, between 1909-1938, the twenty-seven historic bridges span the entirety of the Los Angeles River from the San Bernadino Valley down to Long Beach and represent a significant time period for Los Angeles.
Current Sixth Street VIaduct has ''concrete cancer''
Nearly a mile in length and connecting downtown L.A. to Boyle Heights, the Sixth Street Viaduct was the last and arguably grandest of the river bridges.
A slideshow with captions illustrating the history of the Los Angles River prior to its channelization.
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Primarily a flood-control basin to control floodwater runoff, the Sepulvida Basin serves a broad range of other uses for the city, from refuge to recreational space, to water treatment facility.
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