Throwback Thursdays

Imprisoned by the US Government during WWII Manzanar, Block 24, Barracks 2, Unit 4 As a US-born Japanese, Ted Tanaka was imprisoned with 120,000 others...

Historian and heritage conservation consultant Alison Rose Jefferson, M.H.C., Ph.D., discusses her new book, Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites during the Jim...

In the 1930s and 1940s L.A. was a newspaper town filled with fedora-sporting, fast-talking, men on a deadline. But two of the toughest and best...

The Santa Monica pier stands as a world-famous icon and beloved by all who live here and all who visit. Jim Harris is the world’s...

Pacific Ocean Park—or “P.O.P.” as it was commonly known in Los Angeles from the ’50s through the ’70s, was extraordinary in both its glamorous rise...

Following WWI, Arthur Letts, owner of The Broadway Department Store was a man rich with cash and dreams of becoming a developer. Letts had his...

The ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920 established the right to vote for white women in America. The suffrage movement’s success depended in large...