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For someone who only spent about 25 years in Los Angeles, Edwin Cawston made a lasting impression on the cultural history of our great city and he did so through, of all things, a farm.
In a city where no structure is guaranteed permanence, the iconic Bullocks Wilshire building turns an astounding 90 years old this week.
Once upon a time in Hollywoodland, 80 years ago today, The Wizard of Oz had its Hollywood Premiere at Grauman’s Chinese Theater.
![Color postcard of California Alligator Farm, in Los Angeles [ca.1911]](https://www.lapl.org/sites/default/files/styles/blog_latest_list_120x90/public/blogs/2019-07/gatorbabyfarmheader.jpg?itok=3L8FQxB6 "Color postcard of California Alligator Farm with a baby surrounded by baby alligators, in Los Angeles [ca.1911]")
Before Mickey and his Magic Kingdom, there was Billie the Alligator and his reptilian pals at the California Alligator Farm.
It’s been over forty years, but the water is flowing again at the Fort Moore Pioneer Memorial.
Los Angeles has no shortage of notorious crimes, nor of great writers. When true accounts of the former are penned by the latter, the results are some fascinating reads.
An over one-hundred-year-old, beautifully detailed map of downtown Los Angeles has been received by the History and Genealogy department from the Historical Society of Southern California.
Whether you want it hot or cool, swingin’ or slow, Dixieland or experimental, there’s jazz to fit your mood, mellow you out, pick you up. Jazz was born in New Orleans—the only place in the U.S. in the 1800s where slaves were allowed to own drums.
Los Angeles is a city whose theater scene is typically overlooked, yet every now and then we are host to a production that is monumental.
Happy 80th birthday Union Station!