#los-angeles-history
#los-angeles-history
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fromLos Angeles Times
7 years agoNeighborhood Spotlight: Lawndale, true to its name, is a South Bay outlier
Lawndale's name accurately reflects its geography and landscape, unlike many Los Angeles area place names that ironically reference pastoral features no longer present in developed neighborhoods.
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fromLos Angeles Times
8 years agoNeighborhood Spotlight: Cheviot Hills, already pricey, continues on a steep incline
Cheviot Hills developed from 1923 as an upscale Westside Los Angeles neighborhood through multiple subdivisions offering varied architectural styles at different price points, establishing itself as a premier luxury residential area.
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fromLos Angeles Times
39 years agoA First-Class Dwelling : A New Owner Discovers the Lively History of His House--and Los Angeles--in a Search of the Public Records
A 1903 Los Angeles house serves as a historical record of the city's transformation from 100,000 residents to over 3 million, surviving earthquakes, fires, and urban development while facing modern gentrification pressures.
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fromLos Angeles Times
8 years agoNeighborhood Spotlight: Close-knit Leimert Park is primed to be well-connected again
Leimert Park transformed from a segregated white planned community in 1923 to a major African-American cultural center by the 1960s despite violent white resistance to integration.
fromJuxtapoz
1 month agoJuxtapoz Magazine - Israel Campos "Echoes" @ Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles
These paintings reveal the layers of history that undergird modern Los Angeles. Yaanga Lies Under the 101 imagines the city's earliest Tongva inhabitants as they made their home on the land that, in the modern day, runs beneath the Hollywood Freeway. Campos's process mimics this archaeological layering: each canvas begins with a screenprinted underlayer that is then painted over in acrylic, and then once again layered with screenprinted details.
Arts
fromARTnews.com
3 months agoAlex Prager's Immersive 'Mirage Factory' Brings the History of Los Angeles to Miami Beach's Historic Golden Age Theater
At the center of Mirage Factory a miniaturized version of Hollywood Boulevard with landmarks like Grauman's Chinese Theatre, El Capitan, Musso & Frank's, and the Hollywood Hotel, as well as a Hollywood memorabilia souvenir shop, an Arby's sign, red-brick buildings, muscle cars, and billboards from different eras like one for an upcoming election in the '30s that reads "VOTE FOR WATER OR DESERT."
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