Under this method, tiles were colored using clay slip (a mix of clay and water) and then fired once in a kiln. Most ceramics would then be glazed and fired a second time, but Batchelder preferred ...

Los Angeles is earthquake country, and we are due for a big one. Past earthquakes have devastated the region, but we’ve always bounced back.

In 1978, Los Angeles agreed to host the 1984 Summer Olympics and, as described in the official report of the games, a small, secretive organizing committee formed to oversee the delivery and ...

The Long Goodbye. American film noir went through a relatively fallow period from the late 1950s to the early 1970s, when the first wave of “neo-noirs” began cropping up in theaters.

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 ...

The neon sign maker that lit up California. Electrical Products Corp. dominated the West Coast sign industry, then it disappeared. This map documents some of its last remaining signs ...

5. Spanish Colonial Revival . Became Southern California’s pre-eminent architectural style in the wake of the Panama-California Exposition of 1915-1917.

A new map details Pacific Electric’s sprawling "Red Car" rail network as it appeared in 1926, harkening back to the days when LA was home to one of the largest mass transit systems in the world.

The fires would rage in pockets across the city. In the so-called “Mexican district”—epicenter of the 1924 outbreak of the ancient, dreaded plague—buildings were ripped apart, bulldozed ...

Crenshaw Boulevard is home to Dulan’s Soul Food, West Angeles Church, Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza, and Angelus Funeral Home, where the bodies of director John Singleton and rapper and activist ...

For those looking to shake up their Halloween routine, may we suggest a leisurely cemetery tour. While all of LA’s graveyards have their fair share of celebs interred, Hollywood Forever Cemetery ...

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 ...