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July 22, 1947: TV, Jet Engine, Tucker Car on Display at World Inventors Expo
Note: This is an encore post from 2005 and originally appeared on the 1947project. First-prize winner at the inventors exposition was Stanley Hiller Jr., who developed a helicopter in which two blades...
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July 22, 1907: L.A. Housing Is Expensive
This is an encore post from 2006. Note: $90 a month is $1,847.12 USD 2005 and $3,197.41 in 2026 dollars.
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July 19, 1908: Perkins Estate Overlooks Los Robles Canyon
Above, details of the Gilbert B. Perkins home on Hillcrest in Pasadena. his was a fun little mystery, complicated by The Times using the wrong middle initial for Gilbert Perkins in the caption. Perkins...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Hollywood Sign Built and Illuminated...
The Hollywoodland Sign, in a photo published in the Los Angeles Evening Herald, Dec. 8, 1923. Note: This is an encore post from 2017. Originally constructed as a publicity gimmick and branding symbol...
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May 5, 1939: Union Station Opens
Photograph by the Los Angeles Times March 15, 1939: At a luncheon at the Biltmore Hotel to plan the opening gala for Union Station, R.E. Southworth stamps the tickets of A.D. McDonald, president of...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Hollywood’s Salute to Atmosphere – The...
A photo of the Afton Arms from the Hollywood Citizen, Jan. 25, 1925. Note: This is an encore post from 2019. Built in 1925 and advertising itself as modern and up-to-date, filled with every...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Florence Casler, Pioneering Developer...
Florence Casler, 1928. Long before Rick Caruso, CIM group, Lincoln Property, and others hit the Los Angeles real estate world, Florence C. Casler dominated its ranks, constructing many of Los Angeles’...
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March 22, 1908: Plans for a New Hall of Records
Above, an artist’s concept of the proposed Hall of Records, a white gingerbread building between Broadway and New High Street that was one of the landmarks of old Los Angeles. The realignment of...
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March 20, 1907: St. James Raises a Church — Burned in 1973 as Hate Crime...
Note: This is an encore post from 2006. The Methodist Episcopal congregation, formed from a merger of the Centennial and Central churches, planned a wonderful new building at 22nd Street and Union....
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February 28, 1959: Dodger Dome?
Could Dodger Stadium have been renamed the Dodger Dome? Capt. Emil Praeger, designer of the Chavez Ravine ballpark, told reporters at Vero Beach, Fla., about plans to add a dome after the stadium was...
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February 28, 1959: Ex-Teamsters Boss Sentenced to Prison
Feb. 28, 1959: Former Teamsters President Dave Beck is sentenced to prison. In the preceding two decades, The Times frequently attacked “Dave Beckism.” Ex-Teamsters Boss Dave Beck Dead at 99 JOHN...
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February 18, 2007: Architectural Ramblings
Note: This is an encore post from 2007. February 18, 2007 Los Angeles The buildings featured in The Times for this week have been torn down, but in glancing through the listings, I found the sale by...
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February 5, 2009: Burbank Time Capsule Revisited
Cinda Cates, Burbank public information specialist, passes along the images that were recovered from the 1959 time capsule placed in the Magnolia Boulevard Bridge. The anonymous photographer recorded...
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February 4, 1907: Architectural Ramblings — South Pasadena
Note: This is a post I wrote in 2007. February 4, 2007 South Pasadena The Times publishes three architectural drawings of “artistic bungalows” prepared by the firm of Wilson and Barnes. One is being...
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January 29, 1934: Did Ancient Lizard Cult Hide Gold Tablets in Tunnels Under...
Jan. 29, 1934: Gold hidden in network of tunnels under downtown Los Angeles! Ancient underground cult blamed for terrible head bust in The Times! Engineer’s radio X-rays reveal massive gold tablets...
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January 20, 1907: Architectural Ramblings
A Brainerd home at 1158 E. 41st St., Photograph by Larry Harnisch/LADailyMirror.com Note: This is an encore post from 2007. Los Angeles January 20, 2007 What we do know about H.J. Brainerd is that he...
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December 15, 1907: Architectural Rambling to South Pasadena
Note: This is an encore post from 2006. December 15, 1907 Los Angeles Anybody who sets out to study the development of the city’s neighborhoods can expect to do lots of driving. My recent travels have...
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December 12, 1907: Recreation Center to Be Built in Heart of Industrial District
Note: This is an encore post from 2006. December 12, 1907Los AngelesIn the gritty, industrial heart of the 8th Ward at Holly Street and St. John, officials are planning a large recreation facility “as...
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November 30, 2006: Architectural Rambling
Here’s the former Calvary Presbyterian Church in South Pasadena, now the Grace Brethren church. Note: This is an encore post. November 30, 2006 Los Angeles I don’t think anyone who knows both of us...
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Black L.A. November 13, 1947: Little Miss Cornshucks; St. Paul Baptist Church...
November 13, 1947: Little Miss Cornshucks is at the Last Word, 4206 Central Ave. The Last Word opened in July 1947 and seems to have closed in 1951. Or at least it was no longer advertising in the...
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