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Lost LA
The Enchanted Nuclear Robots of Disney’s Tiki Room
Post date:In the early 1960s, Walt Disney proposed a Polynesian-themed restaurant featuring a musical floor show with trained birds. With technology purchased from the nuclear weapons program, mechanical performers would make his vision a reality.
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Lost LA
Lost LA Field Notes: Fantasyland
Post date:For the Fantasyland episode, I met an Imagineer, sat down with the director of the Walt Disney Archives and went through photos of Universal's original studio tour. We also visited the restaurant that inspired Walt Disney's fantasy theme.
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Architecture and Design
Lost LA
Fantastic! — L.A.’s Architecture of Dreams
Post date:The benign climate of Los Angeles, the excellent highways, the desire to escape into an alternate reality and the skills of Hollywood designers were material causes of our architecture of fakery, informing how donuts, ice cream and pianos were sold.
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Disneyland
Lost LA
How Disneyland's Main Street, USA, Changed the Design and Preservation of American Cities
Post date:At a time when many cities were tearing out their historic downtowns, Disneyland reacquainted Americans with pedestrian-oriented cityscapes.
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Disneyland
Lost LA
This 1960s Home Movie Rewinds Five Decades of Disneyland History
Post date:From a Space Age Tomorrowland to an "authentic" Indian Village, this home movie footage reveals much that's changed at "The Happiest Place on Earth."
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Visual Arts
Artbound
Before Banksy, Painter Jeff Gillette's 'Dismayland' Took on Disney
Post date:In Jeff Gillette's paintings, post-apocalyptic wastelands include Disney's popular characters and structures.
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Disneyland
Departures
Mousekequeers: LGBTQ Visitors Embrace Disney
Post date:During Gay Days, Disneyland becomes even more magical than usual. For LGBTQ visitors, it is an opportunity to fuse nostalgia with desire to rewrite the past and present. It also allows Disney to do what it perhaps does best, capitalize upon yearning.
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block by block
History & Society
Exploring Anaheim's Little Arabia
Post date:Besides Disneyland, the second largest city in Orange County is home to other less-visited places such as Little Arabia, a locally-beloved and highly visible concentration of Arab businesses that has so far failed to receive formal recognition from the...
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A Los Angeles Primer
History & Society
A Los Angeles Primer: Olvera Street
Post date:Noted architect and urbanist Jan Gehl endorses one piece of city-building advice in particular: "Make sure there's never quite enough room." Olvera Street, the Mexican simulacrum now at the origin point of Los Angeles, raises an uncomfortable question:...
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engaging spaces
History & Society
'Overdrive' Engages a Public Understanding of L.A's Architectural Spaces
Post date:The Getty exhibit set out to be the first major museum exhibition to explore L.A.'s unique built environment.
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Agriculture
Lost LA
When L.A. Was Empty: Wide-Open SoCal Landscapes
Post date:Early photographs of Los Angeles surprise for many reasons, but often what's most striking is how empty the city looks.
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intersections
History & Society
Building Nostalgia: Disney, Legoland, and Southern California
Post date:Many of us played with Legos as a kid...so what's it like to visit Legoland as an adult?
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Arrival Stories
History & Society
Lisa Marr: How The Cuddle Core Icon Came To L.A.
Post date:"There was plenty of time to ramble all over the place, meet wacky weirdos with an eye on the stairway to stardom, and discover a million and one fun, freaky, free things to do."
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Cultural Politics
Artbound
Los Angeles: Camouflage and Contestation
Post date:Art historian Jason Weems examines three mid-century constructions understood as staples of the California landscape: Disneyland, Lakewood, and the aerospace industry.
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Visual Arts
Artbound
Perfect Documents: Mexican Pop Groups & High Society at the Border
Post date:Photographer and Tijuana native Yvvone Venegas captures the tension between the authentic and the artificial that exists in places whose primary function is to entertain, mesmerize, and titillate - places like Disneyland, Las Vegas, and Tijuana.
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Disneyland
SoCal Focus
Future Imperfect: When Tomorrow Finally Arrived
Post date:We were in such a hurry to get there, and then the future was here, but not as we expected it.
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bakeries
Food
L.A.'s Best Pretzels
Post date:Pretzels aren't just salt and dough anymore.
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AEG
SoCal Focus
AEG, the Dodgers, and the Industrialization of Fun in L.A.
Post date:AEG and the new Dodgers organization show how the integration of politics, media, and fan loyalty will pay off for corporate showmen.
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History
SoCal Focus
Marine Animals, Theme Park Rides & Alligators: 3 Classic SoCal Attractions in Photos
Post date:Through archived photographs from L.A. as Subject member institutions, take a tour of three classic Southern California theme parks and tourist attractions: Marineland of the Pacific, Knott's Berry Farm, and the California Alligator Farm.
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History
Lost LA
Dinosaurs in the Southland and from the Pleistocene to Pop Culture
Post date:The opening of the Natural History Museum's new Dinosaur Hall brings new attention to the prehistory of Southern California--and prehistoric creatures' influence on the region's popular culture.