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There once was a giant cowboy cutout standing above L.A. at the entrance of The Strip.
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Shop owners got 30-day notices to vacate this week but said the new owners reached out to extend that another 30 days. This comes after its weekly swap meet permanently shut down earlier this month.
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Although the fight for racial equality is ongoing, Stax co-owner Al Bell says so is the hope for a better future envisioned by Wattstax a half-century ago.
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We take one more long, lasting look at the group of pioneering thinkers known as the "Suicide Squad."
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Supernatural women, occultism and rocket fuel: Say hello again to Jack Parsons, a Suicide Squad original.
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The location is packed with history. Some of it joyful, some of it painful.
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Nazi Germany falls, and the United States sees opportunities to beef up its rocket research even further.
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The return of the property was hailed as a step toward righting the wrongs inflicted by systemic racism. Now, the parties say, the $20 million sale will help restore some of the wealth stripped away.
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LAist's new podcast LA Made: Blood Sweat & Rockets explores the history of Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Lab, co-founder Jack Parsons' interest in the occult and the creepy local lore of Devil's Gate Dam.
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And what it says about the 'Land Back' movement. “This is our one home. There is no other homeland or mother country. That means everything to us.”
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In the past five years, women in L.A. and throughout California have started creating a new future for custom car culture.
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Baldwin Hills communities began with an Olympic village in 1932 and later became home to affluent Black families in L.A. It is now facing changing demographics and gentrification.
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Never before or since has the simmering resentment between workers and employers boiled over the way it did that day.
