It was during the Victorian era, from 1837 to 1901, that Los Angeles transformed from a small, dusty Mexican outpost into a Gilded Age American boom town. Thousands of homes were built during this ...

From the Coliseum to Dodger Stadium.Just as it had during the 1932 Olympics, the Coliseum played a key role in the 1984 games. It was the site of all track and field events, as well as the venue ...

The 2028 Olympic Games are ten years away, but Los Angeles is already gearing up to serve as host city for the third time since 1932. When athletes arrive a decade from now, they'll be able to ...

There are more 50,000 streets in Los Angeles County. They are named after cult leaders (L. Ron Hubbard Way), martyred astronauts (Astronaut Ellison S. Onizuka Street), the view of a lighthouse ...

It’s not exactly Chinatown, but it’s a lot like Chinatown. During the late 19th century, it became clear to enterprising Los Angeles boosters that the only way the town could grow into the ...

Construction is officially underway on a long-anticipated people mover system at Los Angeles International Airport that officials predict will ferry up to 30 million travelers per year between ...

Once called “probably the most recognizable and beloved building in Los Angeles,” this 80-year-old structure is named for Griffith J. Griffith, who gifted the land for his namesake park to the ...

A proposal out of Sacramento to put denser housing near transit has divided Californians. But a similar program is already underway in the city of Los Angeles. It’s an incentive program called ...

The protest was inspired by the women of Moms 4 Housing, who drew national attention for their occupation of a house in Oakland earlier this year. But unlike the Oakland house, which was owned by ...

Under this method, tiles were colored using clay slip (a mix of clay and water) and then fired once in a kiln. Most ceramics would then be glazed and fired a second time, but Batchelder preferred ...

For the set of In a Lonely Place, director Nicholas Ray recreated one of his first Hollywood homes: The Villa Primavera in West Hollywood.

The Long Goodbye American film noir went through a relatively fallow period from the late 1950s to the early 1970s, when the first wave of “neo-noirs” began cropping up in theaters. Robert ...