LA’s first cemeteries were defiled, dug up, and bulldozed in the name of progress.

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 ...

A tour of the lobby and two underground floors of the 1926 Subway Terminal Building as they prepare for retail redevelopment.

The Olympics fixed LA’s traffic problem—can the 2028 games do it permanently? Transportation solutions deployed for the 1984 Summer Olympics are even more relevant today ...

When the plague came to Los Angeles “Little Mexico,” a bustling community near Olvera Street, was leveled in the name of sanitation ...

Los Angeles was Raymond Chandler’s muse, mistress, and his making. For his famous anti-hero, private eye Philip Marlowe, it is a torturous, nasty place filled with “tough-looking palm trees ...

The real-life tower that made ‘Die Hard’ Nakatomi tower is really Fox Plaza in Century City, an example of 1980s power architecture at its finest ...

Rebellion and rock ‘n’ roll: The Sunset Strip in the ’60s How go-go dancing teens—and the underage clubs that embraced them—turned the Strip technicolor ...

13 of the best noir films set in Los Angeles Laced with corruption in the 1940s and ’50s, LA became the birthplace for the literary and cinematic style ...

When mobsters and movie stars ruled the Sunset Strip The end of Prohibition signaled a new outlaw era on the Strip, one that was both dangerous and glamorous ...

How one Ohio native became the ‘Mother of Hollywood’ There seems to have been nothing in Hollywood that Daeida Wilcox Beveridge didn’t nurture ...

A common, frequent complaint about Los Angeles is that it’s so big and so sprawling that it feels like it goes on forever. Is it really? Does it really? To get a better grasp of LA’s relative ...