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L.A. River
History & Society
Day Without a Bag: Where to Get a Free Reusable Bag
Post date:Join us this Thursday, December 15th in observing A Day Without a Bag, an event that encourages shoppers and retailers to forgo single-use, plastic shopping bags in favor of reusable bags.
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Millard Canyon
History & Society
Millard Canyon: A Glimpse of the Arroyo Past
Post date:Millard Canyon offers a glimpse of the Arroyo Seco as the Hahamog'nas - and later the artists - may have seen.
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Highland Park
Departures
Tierra De La Culebra: Park and Sculpture
Post date:After the 1992 civil uprising in L.A., artist Tricia Ward was given an opportunity to initiate a community arts workshop in Highland Park designed to engage local youth in the development and on-going implementation of community programs.
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Highland Park
Departures
The Audubon Center
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Highland Park
Departures
Reimagining The Arroyo Seco
Post date:In a dense city lacking in public space, the Arroyo Seco and the Los Angeles River open up the possibility for the creation of a unique "central park" that could knit together communities along the river's length, providing pocket parks at the edges, a...
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Highland Park
Departures
The Future of the Arroyo Seco Parkway
Post date:Just as the Highline in New York City was re-purposed as a city park once it had outlived its usefulness, infrastructure such as the Arroyo Seco Parkway could potentially be re-imagined to respond to changing needs and behaviors in the city.
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Highland Park
Departures
Property Rights
Post date:Thanks to the lingering aftereffects of the New Deal and the post-WWII boom, development in Los Angeles was in full swing in the 1960s. A tidal wave of development would begin to rumble through the sleepy neighborhood.
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Highland Park
Departures
The Duardo Family: Activism in Highland Park
Post date:1966, Family matriarch Josefina Duardo decided to move to the neighborhood with her nine children from East Los Angeles after being told by relatives of Highland Park's peaceful and natural setting.
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Highland Park
Departures
New Neighbors: The First Latino Families in Highland Park
Post date:The post-war Latinoization of Los Angeles was underway, a change that would transform Northeast and South Los Angeles, and which is still transforming the city to this day.
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Highland Park
Departures
White Flight
Post date:As early as the 1920s the predominantly white residents of Highland Park began looking to other areas of Los Angeles for housing. After World War II, this westward drift became a full-on exodus of Anglo middle-class families out of communities like Hi...
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Highland Park
Departures
Business District
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Highland Park
Departures
The History of the Arroyo Seco Parkway
Post date:Highland Park is home to many of Los Angeles' firsts. How appropriate, then, that it is also the location of not just the first freeway in California, but in the United States. The Arroyo Seco Parkway began construction in the 1930s after the Automobil...
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Highland Park
Departures
A New Deal
Post date:At the onset of the Great Depression, Los Angeles was the land of oil and movies, industries that seemed crash-proof. In just a few years, though, the city was struggling as much as the rest of the country.
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Highland Park
Departures
Sources of Water
Post date:Los Angeles' political and business leaders knew by the late 1800s that the city needed two key ingredients to make it great: more water and a transportation network that would move people and commerce throughout the basin. The transportation question ...
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Highland Park
Departures
Channelization of the Arroyo Seco
Post date:For hundreds of years, the Arroyo Seco was a central, life-giving resource for first the Tongva people and then successive waves of settlers. A seasonal tributary of the Los Angeles River, the Arroyo provided water, food, transportation and - perhaps m...
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charles fisher
History & Society
The Cultural History of Highland Park: Chapter 1
Post date:A summary of the first chapter of Departures' exploration of the cultural history of Highland Park.
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arroyo seco
Departures
The California Plein Air Movement
Post date:Plein Air was a style of painting descended from French Impressionism, the French term for "open air" indicating the artist painted outdoors.
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Departures
Arts & Crafts Movement: Arroyo Culture
Post date:In the midst of the Industrial Revolution, a desire for the handmade craftsmanship of wares and decorative items begin to influence design philosophies in Great Britain. This movement spread throughout Europe and then to North America and became what w...
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channelization
Departures
Arroyo Seco: The Southern California Lifestyle
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arroyo seco
Departures
Southwest Museum of the American Indian
Post date:Perched on the hills of the Arroyo Seco, the Southwest Museum opened its doors to the public in 1914. It's no exaggeration to say that it was the Getty of its era, and the city celebrated the Southwest Museum's arrival with good reason.