It’s not exactly Chinatown, but it’s a lot like Chinatown. During the late 19th century, it became clear to enterprising Los Angeles boosters that the only way the town could grow into the ...

At 180 by 50 feet, it was the largest illuminated advertising display to be erected in Northern California in the year 1956. The C and the H letters, representing the states California and Hawaii ...

From the Coliseum to Dodger Stadium.Just as it had during the 1932 Olympics, the Coliseum played a key role in the 1984 games. It was the site of all track and field events, as well as the venue ...

For the set of In a Lonely Place, director Nicholas Ray recreated one of his first Hollywood homes: The Villa Primavera in West Hollywood.

In 1940s Los Angeles, black entertainers not only revived West Adams—they challenged racist covenants and laid the groundwork for the Fair Housing Act.

Los Angeles isn’t particularly well known for its streetlights. Maybe it should be. Not because we have the most streetlights (today that number hovers around 220,000, while Chicago’s ...

“What The Byrds did to Ciro’s was unbelievable,” wrote Hit Parade magazine. “There were queues up and down Sunset Strip of desperate teenagers clamoring to get in. The dance floor was a ...

Construction is officially underway on a long-anticipated people mover system at Los Angeles International Airport that officials predict will ferry up to 30 million travelers per year between ...

A proposal out of Sacramento to put denser housing near transit has divided Californians. But a similar program is already underway in the city of Los Angeles. It’s an incentive program called ...

Crenshaw Boulevard starts in the middle of bustling, concrete Los Angeles at Wilshire Boulevard and ends in the untamed, unearthly natural beauty of the Palos Verdes Peninsula, a little more than ...

When the founder of Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale first came to see the site in the 1910s, San Fernando Road was "an unpaved road where vehicles mired down when it rained and sank deep in ...

There are more 50,000 streets in Los Angeles County. They are named after cult leaders (L. Ron Hubbard Way), martyred astronauts (Astronaut Ellison S. Onizuka Street), the view of a lighthouse ...