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The Early History of L.A. International Airport
The transportation hub has hardly stood still since it emerged from the bean fields of Westchester in the late 1920s.

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Lost LA Field Notes: Fantasyland
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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Lost LA Field Notes: Venice
Venice has been in a state of perpetual renaissance since tobacco heir Abbot Kinney founded the seaside resort town in 1905. And yet traces of its past stubbornly persist in street names, artworks and the built environment.

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Lost LA Field Notes: Ghost Towns
The only ghosts in this episode are the dreams of the past — visions of wealth, of new cities, and of new ways of living that failed. One of our stops was at Zzyzx, where we found multiple layers of history baked under the desert sun.

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Lost LA Field Notes: Surf’s Up!
Before we made this episode, I didn’t realize how far surfing’s influence extended, even to my own childhood. Conversations with surf culture historians Dick Metz and Peter Westwick, and a visit to Muscle Beach, helped to tell the story.

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Lost LA Field Notes: Desert Fantasy
Californians have learned to love their arid eastern lands. Joshua Tree continues to enjoy (or suffer from, depending on your perspective) record visitation. Music and art festivals draw hundreds of thousands more. For many, the desert is home.

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Lost LA Field Notes: What’s the Authentic Yosemite Experience?
Yosemite National Park has become for me — as it has for many Southern Californians — an annual destination.

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California’s Atlantis: The Lost Superisland of Santarosae
Twenty thousand years ago, Santarosae Island was an imposing landmass just south of the Santa Barbara coast. Then it disappeared.

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How Bougainvillea Came to Brighten California’s Springtime and Summer
Why did this native plant of South America become so popular in California?

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Before Santa Monica Airport, There Was Clover Field
Aviators, including Toluca Lake resident Amelia Earhart, have made many milestones in aviation history from this mesa just southeast of Santa Monica.