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aviation
Blue Sky Metropolis
The Surprising Vestiges of the Aviation Industry in SoCal Neighborhoods
Post date:The advent of World War II marked an aviation-industry boom in Southern California. What’s left standing in the neighborhoods we now call home after the rise of aviation giants such as Lockheed, Douglas Aircraft and Northrop may surprise you.
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Lakewood
Lost L.A.
How I Found Los Angeles
Post date:Can Los Angeles's past be of any value to us except as nostalgia or irony? D.J. Waldie explains why he writes about the confluence of history and private life.
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Where We Are
History & Society
Herons and Concrete: Redefining What Nature Means on the L.A. River
Post date:Revitalizing the Los Angeles River could redefine what nature means to the city. But contending definitions of nature, re-greening, utility, and even the river must be reconciled first.
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l.a. letters
History & Society
On Location: North Long Beach
Post date:This week L.A. Letters focuses on an underappreciated but equally fascinating section of the city: North Long Beach.
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army corps of engineers
Earth Focus
Assembly Bill Seeks Revitalization Plan for Lower L.A. River
Post date:Revitalization work on the Lower L.A. River near Long Beach has lagged behind the Upper River areas in the Valley and around Downtown.
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Where We Are
History & Society
Neither Paradise Nor Hell: One Suburb's Story
Post date:As every history is, Lakewood's story is an "imposition" on the wrack of stuff that carelessness and forgetting have washed up on the shore of remembrance.
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Lakewood
History & Society
What We Gave Up to Become Suburban
Post date:We were housed in Lakewood in the 1950s. But we didn't have a home yet.
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intersections
History & Society
The Lakewood Plan: Homeownership, Taxes, and Diversity in Postwar Suburbia
Post date:The city of Lakewood pioneered city contracting for public services, establishing a controversial model replicated by countless other suburbs in Los Angeles and beyond.
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Where We Are
History & Society
Pictures at a Revolution: Images of a Post-War Suburb
Post date:Photographs from more than 60 years ago have their quota of nostalgia. But they also record the making of a place that satisfied a longing for home.
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artesia
History & Society
Artesia: From Portuguese Dairy Farms to Little India
Post date:This week L.A. Letters highlights the past, present and future of Artesia, one of the gateway cities on the southeastern border of Los Angeles County.
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Lakewood
SoCal Focus
Joe Gonsalves: Legend of L.A.'s Suburbs
Post date:Among those honored last week by the city of Lakewood is a man you probably haven't heard of.
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Lakewood
SoCal Focus
60 Years Ago, Lakewood Went From Suburb to City
Post date:When Lakewood residents voted for incorporation in 1954, they determined the kind of city they wanted Lakewood to become.
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Lakewood
SoCal Focus
Heartwood: A Tree Is Felled Into Memories
Post date:I should be grateful, I suppose, that my neighbor felled the tree in his front lawn.
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l.a. letters
History & Society
The San Gabriel River & the 562
Post date:This week L.A. Letters explores the landscape, built environment, and cultural history of the San Gabriel River, with special attention focused on the southern half of the river's path.
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commentary
SoCal Focus
The '$2 Tour' of Lakewood: How History Shaped the City, How the City Shaped the People
Post date:A professor of Architectural History takes my hometown tour, where the everyday nearly always fails to be ironic and the quotidian does not always disappoint.
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Agriculture
Lost L.A.
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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Lakewood
SoCal Focus
Remembering Larry Van Nostran
Post date:City Council Member Larry Van Nostran has died.
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suburbs
Lost L.A.
How We Got This Way (Los Angeles has Always Been Suburban)
Post date:For better or worse.
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History
SoCal Focus
GCC Students Question Suburban Memories
Post date:Does a memoir of a working-class suburb have anything to say to Glendale college students today?
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hot rods
SoCal Focus
Of Old Iron and the Men
Post date:It's not just nostalgia that makes brings men and their fifty-year-old cars together.