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West Is Eden:
In these graduating times, cause for celebration and remembering: smeary handprints won't forever stay messy or small.
Which Buildings Changed America? Consider the 'Good Enough' Tract House
April 8, 2013 2:00 PM
by D. J. Waldie
Where We Are:
The "undecorated shed" that was the mass-produced tract house changed the American landscape, with consequences that are still to be fully appreciated.
Where We Are:
| Image from the author's collection Bill Deverell handed me a book the other day, with the recommendation that the author had put together a good story. The book is Building Home: Howard F. Ahmanson and the Politics of...
West Is Eden:
We all crave reassurance, the knowledge that a scrap of us will last beyond the flare of our life.
Skid Row's Tuberculosis Outbreak: 'Immiseration' Grows More Deadly
April 1, 2013 2:00 PM
by D. J. Waldie
Where We Are:
Skid Row is a "Petri dish" for cultivating human misery. That now includes a strain of tuberculosis that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had tagged as unique to downtown. What began as a "health crisis" has become a "moral crisis."
Ode To An Ocean, Where West Is East of The East
April 1, 2013 11:07 AM
Transpacific Routes:
Only in America could people whose heritage hails from within and around the world's largest continent be considered a single demographic group.
What Do We See When We Look at L.A.? The Swells on Wilshire Boulevard in 1936
March 29, 2013 2:00 PM
by D. J. Waldie
Where We Are:
It's summer. Ladies are lunching and window-shopping. Limousines are lined up on Wilshire Boulevard. Chauffeurs are idling in front of Perino's.
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