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Beach Culture
Season 3, Episode 3
One of California’s great international exports has been its beach culture. This episode explores how surfers, bodybuilders, and acrobats taught Californians how to have fun and stay young at the beach—and how the 1966 documentary The Endless Summer shared the Southern California idea of the beach with the rest of the world.
A collaboration between the USC Libraries and KCETLink, Lost LA features the member collections of L.A. as Subject, a research alliance dedicated to preserving and telling the sometimes-hidden stories and histories of the Los Angeles region.Airdates
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2018-10-23T13:30:00-07:00KCET-HD
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2018-10-23T18:30:00-07:00KCET-HD
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2018-10-24T04:30:00-07:00KCETLINK
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2018-10-27T07:30:00-07:00KCETLINK
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2018-10-27T11:30:00-07:00KCET-HD
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2018-10-28T12:30:00-07:00KCET-HD
Full Episodes
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Lost L.A.
Lost L.A.
S3 E1: Yosemite
Season 3, Episode 1
This episode explores how Yosemite has changed over time: from a land maintained by indigenous peoples; to its emergence as a tourist attraction; to the site of conflict over humanity’s relationship with nature.
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Lost L.A.
Lost L.A.
S3 E2: Desert Fantasy
Season 3, Episode 2
California’s deserts have sparked imaginations around the world. This episode explores the creation of the Salton Sea; the effort to preserve Joshua Tree National Park; and how commercial interests created desert utopias like Palm Springs.
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Lost L.A.
Lost L.A.
S2 E1: Borderlands
Season 2, Episode 1
American history has long been told as a triumphant march westward from the Atlantic coast, but in southern California, our history stretches back further in time.
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Lost L.A.
Lost L.A.
S2 E2: Wild West
Season 2, Episode 2
Long before Hollywood imagined the Wild West, Los Angeles was a real frontier town of gunslingers, lynch mobs, and smoke-belching locomotives.
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Lost L.A.
Lost L.A.
S2 E3: Building the Metropolis
Season 2, Episode 3
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Preview: 'Lost LA' Season Three
Watch a preview of the new season of "Lost LA," premiering Oct. 9.
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Lost L.A.
Central Casting: Extras and Ethnicities
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Lost L.A.
Lost L.A.
When Women Called the Shots: The Forgotten Story of Early Hollywood's Female Filmmakers
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Red Gold: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Demise of California's Redwood Forest
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Articles
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Lost L.A.
California history, much like that of America’s, rests on the noblest of deeds, the most nefarious of acts and a sea of grey in between, all driven by the very dreams that fuel boom and bust cycles.
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Lost L.A.
Yosemite National Park has become for me — as it has for many Southern Californians — an annual destination.
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Lost L.A.
For decades, visitors to Yosemite witnessed the Firefall, a shimmering curtain of glowing embers and hot coals cascading to the valley floor. The tradition highlights the competition that existed between the state’s earliest entrepreneurs.
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Lost L.A.
The optimistic essence of the California's golden dream endures — as it should — but the future of the state depends on Californians dreaming differently.
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Lost L.A.
Twenty thousand years ago, Santarosae Island was an imposing landmass just south of the Santa Barbara coast. Then it disappeared.
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Why did this native plant of South America become so popular in California?
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Upcoming Airdates
Desert Fantasy
Season 3, Episode 2
California’s deserts have sparked the imaginations of millions of people around the world. From the famously alien landscape of Joshua Tree to the wide expanses of seemingly empty land, the desert has been seen as a place of reinvention, a blank slate to create your dream. This episode explores how those dreams have led to the man-made natural disaster that created the Salton Sea; to the effort to preserve Joshua Tree National Park; and how commercial interests and real estate developers created desert utopias like Palm Springs.
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2018-10-20T07:30:00-07:00KCETLINK
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2018-10-20T11:30:00-07:00KCET-HD
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2018-10-21T12:30:00-07:00KCET-HD
Beach Culture
Season 3, Episode 3
One of California’s great international exports has been its beach culture. This episode explores how surfers, bodybuilders, and acrobats taught Californians how to have fun and stay young at the beach—and how the 1966 documentary The Endless Summer shared the Southern California idea of the beach with the rest of the world.
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2018-10-23T13:30:00-07:00KCET-HD
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2018-10-23T18:30:00-07:00KCET-HD
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2018-10-24T04:30:00-07:00KCETLINK
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2018-10-27T07:30:00-07:00KCETLINK
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2018-10-27T11:30:00-07:00KCET-HD
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2018-10-28T12:30:00-07:00KCET-HD
Ghost Towns
Season 3, Episode 4
Some California dreams succeeded, creating megalopolis regions in the state’s north and south. Other dreams failed, leaving nothing but ruins. This episode explores three California ghost towns: Bodie, a Mono County gold mining settlement that was preserved in time; Llano Del Rio, a socialist utopian community in the Mojave Desert; and Zzyzx, a former health spa on the way to Las Vegas.
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2018-10-30T13:30:00-07:00KCET-HD
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2018-10-30T18:30:00-07:00KCET-HD
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2018-10-31T04:30:00-07:00KCETLINK
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2018-10-31T22:30:00-07:00KCET-HD
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2018-11-01T05:30:00-07:00KCET-HD
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2018-11-03T07:30:00-07:00KCETLINK
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2018-11-03T11:30:00-07:00KCET-HD
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2018-11-04T11:30:00-08:00KCET-HD
Yosemite
Season 3, Episode 1
Californians have long fought over what Yosemite means, and how to manage it. Since its birth as a park and preserve in 1864, Yosemite has become a postcard for the natural beauty of California. Each year, millions visit from around the globe to see the cliffs, waterfalls and meadows that inspire wonder and reverence of the American West. This episode explores how Yosemite has changed over time: from a land maintained by indigenous peoples; to its emergence as a tourist attraction; to the site of conflict over humanity’s relationship with nature.
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2018-11-06T12:30:00-08:00KCET-HD
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2018-11-07T03:30:00-08:00KCETLINK
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2018-11-07T21:30:00-08:00KCET-HD
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2018-11-08T04:30:00-08:00KCET-HD
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2018-11-10T06:30:00-08:00KCETLINK
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2018-11-11T11:30:00-08:00KCET-HD
Venice
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2018-11-10T10:30:00-08:00KCET-HD
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2018-11-13T12:30:00-08:00KCET-HD
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2018-11-13T17:30:00-08:00KCET-HD
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2018-11-14T03:30:00-08:00KCETLINK
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2018-11-14T21:30:00-08:00KCET-HD
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2018-11-15T04:30:00-08:00KCET-HD
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