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Before cars, a so-called “Camel Corp” was brought to Los Angeles in hopes they could transport goods.
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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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In the third part of our series on the Red Scare, we discuss the rise of Tsien Hsue-Shen, a promising aeronautical engineer who went from being on Caltech's radar to the radar of the FBI.
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Frank Malina, an early member of a group of rocket pioneers at the Jet Propulsion Lab known as the Suicide Squad, eluded the glare of McCarthyism and found solace in Paris.
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A local history about the extraordinary lives of a generation of female daredevils.
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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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A national name in the '20s and '30s, by the next decade he was forgotten.
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The Black civil rights attorney fought against redlining policies in L.A. and nationwide.
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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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The underground passages are a symbol of how cars changed Los Angeles and marked the beginning of the end of autonomy for children.
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In recent years L.A. city government has been embroiled in corruption scandals — but the history goes back to the very start.
