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From Charlie Chaplin to 'We Are The World,' this Hollywood studio has seen it...
The Jim Henson Company lot on La Brea Avenue in Hollywood is set to change hands.(Henson Studios, by Edward Weston, CC BY https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/)If you’re in Hollywood and...
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4 landmark cases that changed LGBTQ+ rights in the US
A gay rights activist waves a rainbow flag in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in June, a day before the ruling on the Defense of Marriage Act.(Nicholas Kamm / AFP via Getty Images)The fight for LGBTQ+...
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Take our visual tour of LA's holiday lights through the years
View of Altadena's Christmas Tree Lane (Santa Rosa Avenue), with colored lights on the deodar cedars, which were planted in 1865. The trees are approximately 100 feet tall and have a spread of 40 to...
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Before the internet, how the LA Public Library helped readers pick their next...
A review card of Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel "Mrs. Dalloway," written by a Los Angeles Public Library staff member around the time of the book's publication.(James Sherman / Los Angeles Public...
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A forced good-bye: LA’s iconic Pacific Dining Car demolished after fire
The Pacific Dining Car, circa 1935. The iconic L.A. restaurant was torn down this week after a devastating fire.(Courtesy Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection)For as long as it existed, nothing...
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Why is there a SoCal freeway with a 40-mile gap?
A sign showing the 90 freeway in Marina Del Rey(Suzanne Levy / LAist)Southern California has more than a fewuncompleted freeways. But have you ever noticed the one that has a 40-mile gap?We’re talking...
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For SoCal’s Vietnamese community, Black April tethers generations to the fall...
Tracy La and her family on their trip to Vietnam in December.(Courtesy Tracy La)Lý Diệu Anh was just 6 when she learned of the Vietnam War.Her parents did their best at the time to explain how her...
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What is May Day? A brief history of LA’s labor rallies
Hundreds of people march toward Grand Park on Monday, May 1, 2023, in Los Angeles, CA.(Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)International Workers' Day, also known as May Day, happens every...
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A piece of LA history is on the 2025 list of most endangered historic places...
The Japanese fishing village on Terminal Island on July 26, 1941, with antennas on the roofs.(Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection / L.A. Public Library)Back in the 1930s, an untrained...
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The history of Southern California’s strawberry fields and the Japanese...
A photo of the Tanakas on their farm.(Tanaka Farms)Strawberry fields used to be a common sight in Southern California, growing among the region’s suburban sprawl with splashes of greenery and fragrant...
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Your guide to the Manson Family members — and where they are now
Charles Manson, left, on Aug. 14, 2017 and, right, on Dec. 22, 1969, right, leaving a Los Angeles courtroom. (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation | Wally Fong/AP, File)Charles...
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What is the city of Industry? A brief history of its eyebrow-raising origins
A manufacturing plant in the city of Industry circa 1958.(Howard D. Kelly / Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Collection/Los Angeles Public Library)You would think the city of Industry is...
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