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2022-2012, most recent (#1) to oldest

  1. Mid-Century Summers: Hot Days Meet Cool Pools in Southern California
  2. Woody Guthrie Once Sang About the Deadly New Year’s Day Flood of 1934
  3. Musing on a Set of Secret Stairs and a Movie Studio in Los Feliz
  4. Have You Seen the Salton Sea?
  5.  The Astronaut Islands of Long Beach
  6. Chapman Plaza, Koreatown’s Historical Drive-in Marketplace
  7. Doggie Diner Days by the Bay
  8. That Time When 6000 People Lived in Griffith Park
  9. Talking About Eagle Rock
  10. Who Doesn’t Love a SF Parade?
  11. And Just Like That, It’s 2022 . . .
  12. Here’s to Happy and Fruitful Holidays
  13. Rescuing Rockhaven, Gem of the Foothills
  14. Silver Lake, Hyperion Avenue, and Walt Disney’s Early Studio
  15. Talking About Garvanza, One of L.A.’s First Neighborhoods 
  16. Vintage Fruit Crate Art Portrays the San Fernando Valley of Long Ago
  17. L.A.’s Exotic Yamashiro: Hollywood History with a Spectacular View
  18. Remembering Burbank’s Great Pumpkin Building
  19. Smilin’ Jack, So Cal’s Monster Jack-O’-Lantern
  20. Devilishly Hot Halloweens in the Southland
  21. Going to L.A.’s First Drive-In Theater, the Pico, and Beyond
  22. Flights of Fancy: L.A.’s Air Travel-Inspired Roadside Novelty Buildings
  23. Surfridge, LAX, and the El Segundo Blue
  24. PICTURE THIS: Glendale’s Grand Central Air Terminal 
  25. Literary LA: So Why is it Called “Tarzana?”
  26. PICTURE THIS: Long, Long Gas Lines and Gas Rationing in L.A. 
  27. Once Upon a Time, When the Land of Oz Came to Van Nuys
  28. Southern Pacific’s Lark Streamliner Flies from SF to LA
  29. Tomorrowland’s World Clock in 1950’s Disneyland Park 
  30. PICTURE THIS: “Who Wants Coffee?”
  31. Vintage Hawaii: White Ships, a Pink Hotel, and Boat Days
  32. The Stanford University Angel and a Murder Mystery at the Moana Hotel (1 of 2 parts)
  33. The Stanford University Angel and a Murder Mystery at the Moana Hotel (2 of 2 parts)
  34. Looking Back (Elvis’ Palm Springs Honeymoon House)
  35. Vintage Neon, Eagle Rock Motel
  36. “Wherefore Art Thou, Shakespeare Bridge?” In L.A., That’s Where
  37. Another Vintage Bit of Historic Route 66 in Monrovia 
  38. The Aztec Hotel: Monrovia’s Route 66 Relic
  39. Trompe L’ Oeil and the Palo Alto Street Art of Greg Brown
  40. Vintage Neon, Pasadena Auto Repair Shop SignGuest Post:
  41. Guest Post: Growing up in the Foothills, Sunland’s Lancaster Lake (part 1 of 4)
  42. Guest Post: Growing up in the Foothills, Sunland’s Lancaster Lake (part 2 of 4)
  43. Guest Post: Growing up in the Foothills, Sunland’s Lancaster Lake (part 3 of 4)
  44. Guest Post: Growing up in the Foothills, Sunland’s Lancaster Lake (part 4 of 4)
  45. Vintage Neon, NoHo Circus Clown Sign
  46. Seen in Glendale: One Hundred Mules Walking
  47. Seen in L.A.: Spooky and Colorful Festiveness
  48. California Bungalows in the Mail: When Pacific Ready-Cut Homes Ruled the L.A. Burbs 
  49. Rolling L.A.’s Helms Bakeries Trucks Out of the Past 
  50. Palm Springs Celebrates Its Biggest Tribute to Marilyn Monroe Ever 
  51. PICTURE THIS: It’s Football Season and Surf Meets Turf on Santa Monica Beach 
  52. Refrigerated Air . . . What a Concept 
  53. PICTURE THIS: Van De Kamps Coffee Shop and Drive-in, Atwater Village
  54. The Moana Hotel, a Banyan Tree, and Waikiki Beach Boys 
  55. FILOLI . . . “Fight for a just cause, Love your fellow man, Live a good life”  
  56. The Water Temple—Alive and Well in the San Francisco Bay Area 
  57. A Quick Trip to the Horace Heidt Magnolia Estate Apartments