Hadley Meares
Contributor | (she/her)
Hadley Meares is a journalist specializing in history, art and culture. She loves exploring Southern California and introducing folks to new ways of looking at history through tours, trips and online classes sponsored by Atlas Obscura and Cartwheel Art. She is also a frequent contributor to outlets the Hollywood Reporter, Vanity Fair and Los Angeles magazine.
Twitter: @hadleymeares
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A local history about the extraordinary lives of a generation of female daredevils. -
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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In recent years L.A. city government has been embroiled in corruption scandals — but the history goes back to the very start.
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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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Though early records are murky due to a lack of primary source historical records, we can piece together a legacy of Black-owned restaurants in Los Angeles stretching back to 1888.
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In its heyday, the restaurant was equally popular with Golden Age movie stars and tourist families from Omaha.
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Never before or since has the simmering resentment between workers and employers boiled over the way it did that day.
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After a long legal fight the land was returned to the Bruce family in 2022 — they will now sell it to L.A. County for $20 million.
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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.
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The games were more than casual fun. They were massive public assemblies where people could socialize and strategize.
