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It was officially a centennial ceremony, but to call it a celebration would have been taking it too far.
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The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is getting a new permanent exhibition ready. It will help us understand how we became Los Angeles.
History:
With streetcars likely returning to downtown L.A. after a five-decade absence, take a look back at the city's very first streetcars -- diminutive, horse-drawn vehicles that spawned L.A.'s first suburbs.
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A letter found at the swap meet gives a young visitor's vivid account of Mount Wilson's observatories during the first months of World War II.
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Sheriff John is dead. So is Engineer Bill. What lasts is the imaginative life cultivated by afterschool TV.
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September is the cruelest month, suggesting autumn but delivering a month of hot days. You can buy relief or remember when the basin bred its own air conditioning.
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Down PCH, rambling in and out of memory and history, from Seal Beach to Huntington Beach
LA as Subject:
There was a time when, far from being a defining characteristic of the city's landscape, freeways were merely an experimental impulse of traffic engineers.
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The city's oldest Jewish congregation commits itself to the future by restoring a grand monument from its -- and the city's -- past.
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From the late 1930s through the 1990s, country western music and the hybrid culture from which it came defined much of white working class Los Angeles.
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Celebrations begin Sunday, June 10 for the rancho's new interpretive center and restoration project.
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The story of life at Los Alamitos threads from from Povuu'ngna to the present. It's inclusively retold in the rancho's new exhibits.
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They are "inauthentic" in an entirely authentic Californian way.
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A lot has changed since April 1992. Mostly, there are a lot fewer jobs from which a decent life might be made.
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1992 was a long time coming in neighborhoods across Los Angeles County; it will be a long time going.
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They welcomed the flotsam of the early 20th century city with a "genteel" offering of dance music, sing-alongs, and the possibility of romance.
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A downtown building with an impressive pedigree marks the turning point when L.A. became the state's economic capitol.
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History, memory, and the state deficit complicate the fate of a piece of the city's past.
History:
At places like Murray's Dude Ranch in Apple Valley the history of African-American people in the desert mainly involved kicking back, enjoying a break from the grind of mid-20th-century city life and drinking in that clean, high-desert air.
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The man behind the iconic cafeterias faced down a corrupt city hall and a murderous LAPD "goon squad."
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