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Kadie Seitz, June 03, 2022
California Nouns: People, Places, and Things
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California Nouns: People, Places, and Things
Beaches & Oceans
Kadie Seitz, March 01, 2022
California Nouns: People, Places, and Things
California Food Culture
Kadie Seitz, February 22, 2022
California Nouns: People, Places, and Things
Big Trees
Kadie Seitz, February 10, 2022
California Nouns: People, Places, and Things
Deserts
Caitlin Quinn, December 10, 2019
“The great thing about architecture is that it’s everywhere,” my father would assert with enthusiasm. He, himself, was a Los Angeles-based architect and it felt nothing short of magical to see his hand-drawn sketches transform over time into three-dimensional spaces.


![Group of young girls eating their sack lunches near the Children's Museum, [1983]. Photo credit: William Reagh Collection Children eating lunch b & w photo from 1983](https://www.lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/blog_latest_list_120x90/public/blogs/2022-03/cafoodies-header.jpg?itok=OuMuYsQ6)
![Family and friends from Pasadena gather beside an automobile at Wawona Tree in Yosemite National Park, in California, [ca 1933]. Shades of L.A. Collection: Japanese American Community Japanese family gather beside an automobile at Wawona Tree in Yosemite National Park](https://www.lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/blog_latest_list_120x90/public/blogs/2022-02/big-trees-header.jpg?itok=R4JsSq2g)
![Tourists viewing Badwater in Death Valley from their car, [ca 1939]. Studio Frashers Inc., Works Progress Administration Collection Tourists viewing Badwater in Death Valley from their car](https://www.lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/blog_latest_list_120x90/public/blogs/2022-02/desert-nounsheader.jpg?itok=zs8_RJ6-)
