Los Angeles Past

Well, after years of inactivity, I think it's finally time to make it official: this blog is closed. Not that I've lost interest i...

A brilliant, early view of the Los Angeles County Court House, brought to our attention by user Flyingwedge on the noirish Los Angeles threa...

A remarkable photo I found just today on the Huntington Digital Library website shows a bustling Temple Square circa 1897. Courtesy of T...

Nitrocellulose playing card by postcard maker M. Rieder depicting Palm Drive and the entrance to Singleton Court , 1907.  

View looking southwest from near today's intersection of Temple and Spring Streets. Courtesy U.S.C. Digital Library . Recently, I fo...

I first learned about the granite-paved roadway of Bruno Street from a post in Floyd B. Bariscale's Big Orange Landmarks blog back in ...