LA History

LA Renames Pacoima Intersection For 1965 All-Black Youth Baseball Team

The location is packed with history. Some of it joyful, some of it painful.

A man and a woman stand next to sign that says, The North Valley Bronco Little League Team Square

Operation Paperclip: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Let Nazis Take Me To The Moon And Back

Nazi Germany falls, and the United States sees opportunities to beef up its rocket research even further.

The Black family who won the return of Bruce's Beach will sell it back to LA County

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.

Two couples stand on a walkway at the Bruce's Beach resort in Manhattan Beach, Calif., circa 1920. A few years later, the city condemned the property and seized it from its Black owners.

The Groundbreaking ‘Suicide Squad’ That Tested Early Rockets — And Flirted With The Occult

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.

A black and white photo of seven men standing in front of the airplane. Some of them are wearing jackets. A man is in the center wearing a knitted vest with a tie and hat. The man standing next to him on the right is wearing an air force uniform. The two men standing next to him are wearing coveralls and caps.

Why a property worth millions was returned to the Tongva tribe

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.”

Two people stand with their backs to the camera, facing out towards a large hill covered in trees and chaparral. The person to the left is a woman with an afro, red shirt and tan pants. The person to the right is a man wearing jeans and a navy short-sleeved shirt.

The Rise Of Lady Lowriders And Other All-Women Car Clubs In LA

In the past five years, women in L.A. and throughout California have started creating a new future for custom car culture.

A woman leans out the driver's side window of a lowrider, glancing backwards over her shoulder and smiling. The passenger side of the car is lifted off the ground. The concrete barriers to the L.A. River can be seen in the background.

Baldwin Hills, 'The Black Beverly Hills': The Life And Times Of The Community

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.

An aerial view shows a long road that splits down the middle of hillsides that have houses on the right and a walking trail surrounded by brush on the left. More houses are seen at the top of the bluff on the left side.

How The Bloody Hollywood Strike Of 1945 Forever Changed The Film Business

Never before or since has the simmering resentment between workers and employers boiled over the way it did that day.

A mob killed a tenth of LA’s Chinese population. 150 years later, there's a push to remember

After a surge in anti-Asian incidents, support is growing to build a memorial at the massacre site in downtown L.A.

The audacious act that made Modesta Avila a legend — and Orange County's first felon

After her neighborhood was bisected by a railroad, she placed a railroad tie and a steel bar on a newly laid section of track, hoping to derail an express train. She tied a note to it demanding $10,000.

A woman with dark hair and intense eyes wearing a dark, high-neck dress, stares at the camera. Handwritten on the photo above her are the words "M. Avila. Felony"

The Hedonistic History Of Paradise Springs, Where Early Hollywood Went Wild

The mountain resort was so famous for its epic parties, William Randolph Hearst considered it a rival to his San Simeon estate.

a close-up of a woman's face as she reclines. she wears a turban and smokes a cigarette. she looks worried.

The secret, sordid history of Threemile House, a den of iniquity on the edge of 1890s LA

Out in the boondocks, where the gossamer threads of civilization were tenuous, that's where the real action went down.

An old timey boxer in shorts, a tank top and boxing gloves. A saloon. A beer barrel. A pair of dice. Part of a map. A man with a handlebar mustache stands behind a bar in the late 1800s.

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