Hadley Meares
About Me:
Hadley Meares is a writer, actress and singer who traded one Southland (her home state of North Carolina) for another. She favors the underbelly, the unexplored and the untamed. Naturally she is a regular at the Dresden, where she sings syrupy ballads as often as she can.
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Posted The James Oviatt Building: The Bespoke Brilliance and Pretension Behind an Art Deco Masterpiece
in Land of SunshineBorn into humble circumstances, he had ascended to the heights of his time, until his vision of the world consumed him and limited his views of all that was possible. -
African American, Japanese, Armenian, Mexican, Irish, French, Jewish, English, Scottish, Union, Confederate -- all are represented at this first privately operated cemetery in Los Angeles, opened in 1877.
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Posted The Lady of the Lake: The Depression Era Roots of Echo Park's Unofficial Patron Saint
in Land of SunshineShe represents our country at its best and most unified, and looking out on the lawns filled with citizens of all nationalities and economic classes, it seems she couldn't have picked a better spot. -
Posted From Hip Hotel to Holy Home: The Self-Realization Fellowship on Mount Washington
in Land of SunshineHow an Indian guru found his spiritual home in an abandoned hotel on top of Mount Washington in Northeast Los Angeles. -
The Mount St. Mary's campus was once L.A.'s wealthiest gated community.
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Posted The Flood: St. Francis Dam Disaster, William Mulholland, and the Casualties of L.A. Imperialism
in Land of SunshineThe 1928 failure resulted in one of the worst civic disasters in L.A. history. -
Posted Jack LaLanne and the Fifties Housewife: How the California Fitness Craze Changed Home Cooking
in FoodJack Lalanne, for better or for worse, revolutionized home cooking -- and peoples' understanding of nutrition -- in America. -
Posted Brand Park and the Gates of Miradero: The Strange Life of Glendale's First Family
in Land of SunshineInside a pyramid-shaped tomb lays the man responsible for El Miradero, the Glendale palace built by a man just as odd as the park which bears his name. -
The grand vision of one of L.A.'s first city planners included a highway that would have connect Hollywood to Newhall via a tunnel through Griffith Park.
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Wilshire Boulevard's iconic Gaylord Apartments today represents more of the socialist ideal than Henry Gaylord Wilshire could have ever truly imagined.
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The rose garden at USC has a long, and sometimes scandalous, history.
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Posted The Many Lives of Fort Moore Hill: The Shifting and Shrinking of a Los Angeles Icon
in Land of SunshineThis is a hill where the white man watched, where they built a fort, celebrated L.A.'s first Fourth of July, buried their dead, built their finest homes and newest schools, and endlessly searched for even more treasure. -
Posted Sarno's Pasticceria: Munchies, Music, and Murder in the Little Italy of Los Feliz
in Land of SunshineTragedy struck the bakery and "Opera Cafe" that served as the center of the Italian community in Los Feliz. -
The democratizing and liberating Arts and Crafts movement reached its architectural epoch in early 19th century California, particularly in the family-friendly town of Pasadena.
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Posted Pioneers, Politics, and Punches: Dan the Miner, Carthay Circle, and Dirty Dealings in the Golden West
in Land of SunshineThe legacy of Daniel "The Miner" McCarthy and his son J. Harvey lives on with a bronze monument and the neighborhood of Carthay Circle. -
The tea rooms of the Depression were anything but delicate.
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The Huntington Gardens were a labor of love for three people in particular. We have them to thank for California's palm trees, cacti, avocados and more.
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The glittering stories of the old Chateau, and the once scandalous myth of its origins and construction, have been subsumed into the now greater legend of the Church of Scientology.
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The mid-century tiki crazy in America had its roots firmly in Los Angeles, largely thanks to one bohemian couple.
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L.A.'s first outdoor mall was born out of a sordid murder mystery inside an ivy covered bungalow in the middle of Hollywood.
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Posted Immortal Aspirations: Beethoven in Pershing Square and L.A.'s Striver Mentality
in Land of SunshineBefore pigeons turned his statue white, the storied composer stood in L.A.'s oldest park with dignity. -
A sign in Echo Park is a symbol of the building's multi-purpose past, its multi-cultural present and its multi-faceted founder.
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Posted When the Hippodrome Was Hip: The Looff Carousel and the Era of Seaside Amusement
in Land of SunshineOver 90 years of exposure to sea salt and smog seems to have settled a permanent coat of sticky dust over the Santa Monica Hippodromes walls. -
LAPD's second ever female officer founded halfway homes for lost women and children, paving the way for programs for at-risk youths and adults throughout Los Angeles.
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The carcass of a long dismantled metal sign at Runyon Canyon Park reminder of the history that may or may not have happened right next door.
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A dilapidated sign near Griffith Park is a reminder of the former grandeur of the neighborhood of Westlake.
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The recipe for the most legendary dish at Bullock's Tea Room.
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Bullock's Wilshire was the showpiece of the Bullock's department store chain, and the tea room was the crown jewel.
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The glitz of Las Vegas was all inspired by one Los Angeles supper club.
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Call Mama Weiss Los Angeles' first pop-up impresario.
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Posted The James Oviatt Building: The Bespoke Brilliance and Pretension Behind an Art Deco Masterpiece
in Land of SunshineBorn into humble circumstances, he had ascended to the heights of his time, until his vision of the world consumed him and limited his views of all that was possible. -
African American, Japanese, Armenian, Mexican, Irish, French, Jewish, English, Scottish, Union, Confederate -- all are represented at this first privately operated cemetery in Los Angeles, opened in 1877.
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Posted The Lady of the Lake: The Depression Era Roots of Echo Park's Unofficial Patron Saint
in Land of SunshineShe represents our country at its best and most unified, and looking out on the lawns filled with citizens of all nationalities and economic classes, it seems she couldn't have picked a better spot. -
Posted From Hip Hotel to Holy Home: The Self-Realization Fellowship on Mount Washington
in Land of SunshineHow an Indian guru found his spiritual home in an abandoned hotel on top of Mount Washington in Northeast Los Angeles. -
The Mount St. Mary's campus was once L.A.'s wealthiest gated community.
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Posted The Flood: St. Francis Dam Disaster, William Mulholland, and the Casualties of L.A. Imperialism
in Land of SunshineThe 1928 failure resulted in one of the worst civic disasters in L.A. history. -
Posted Jack LaLanne and the Fifties Housewife: How the California Fitness Craze Changed Home Cooking
in FoodJack Lalanne, for better or for worse, revolutionized home cooking -- and peoples' understanding of nutrition -- in America. -
Posted Brand Park and the Gates of Miradero: The Strange Life of Glendale's First Family
in Land of SunshineInside a pyramid-shaped tomb lays the man responsible for El Miradero, the Glendale palace built by a man just as odd as the park which bears his name. -
The grand vision of one of L.A.'s first city planners included a highway that would have connect Hollywood to Newhall via a tunnel through Griffith Park.
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Wilshire Boulevard's iconic Gaylord Apartments today represents more of the socialist ideal than Henry Gaylord Wilshire could have ever truly imagined.
