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The original Bedford Falls was in Encino, at the RKO Ranch just west of the Sepulveda Basin: When Encino became Bedford Falls...
Paper bags aren't 'equally bad' because they don't do this. There's more than one kind of 'bad.' I'm looking forward to the day when we can't tell where last winter's high-water mark was in LA wa...
[Obligatory copyeditorial note: 'bellwether,' all one word; no 'a' in 'wether.']...
Highs in the 90s with dry offshore flow is pretty normal for the first week of November. It's the tail end of "Dragon Weather" - Fire Weather - which usually runs intermittently from mid-October to e...
They shut down streets for any funeral that they expect will draw thousands of people. The LAPD always turns out in force for officers killed in the line of duty - here or overseas. That's how the...
The 14-inch railway guns were usually transported up the coast near Goleta or down near Oceanside for practice firings, but, at least once, they were fired from Fort MacArthur: The practice firings o...
Higher-resolution PDF versions of those maps are available from the California Dept. of Conservation at this page. (4th & Rose is near the northern edge of the Venice quadrangle.) There's also an ...
When the first Southern Pacific tracks were laid through the San Fernando Valley, it was mostly wheat fields and range lands. And the people who owned those wheat fields and range lands were quite ...
When did simply enforcing the law come to be called a 'sting'? Once upon a time, a 'sting' was when police masqueraded as something they were not - chop-shop owners, pawn shops buying stolen property...
We tried Bea Bea's a couple of weeks ago, and, much as I really wanted to like it, it was just "so close but not quite." Little details - the sun-dried tomatoes in my partner's scramble had such a we...
Hey, I usually have binoculars in my car. Ever hear of "birdwatchers"? "Plane spotters"? Man, you folks sure are easy to freak out. Not everyone who's different from you is dangerous....
You have to understand: "Media whore" = "Gets more attention from the press than I do." :-)...
This is absurd. I spent years as a technical director for theatrical events, and I can tell you that a great many of those ridiculously-priced 'top-end' seats would go vacant if the promoters didn't g...
LA's "once thorough" public transit system? Today's public transit system is far more thorough than it ever was in the days of the Red and Yellow cars. The only way to suggest otherwise is to preten...
The danger from fire is ever-present. This is an ecosystem that's adapted to fire - it's a normal part of the cycle. Where human presence makes it worse is that we extinguish the small lightning-set...
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