Hadley Meares

In its heyday, the restaurant was equally popular with Golden Age movie stars and tourist families from Omaha.

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

For a decade and a half, it was one of the few places where people of color could enjoy SoCal's spectacular coast.

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.

The games were more than casual fun. They were massive public assemblies where people could socialize and strategize.

The self-proclaimed mystic was an elusive, counter-culture curio who collected female acolytes. Shortly after his death, they disappeared.

Did the government really give away millions of acres of valuable California land for free? Yes, it did.

Decades after they were built, some of the most iconic structures for selling and servicing automobiles are being restored and repurposed.

From the Matterhorn and the Monorail to Mr. Toad's Wild Ride and Pirates of the Caribbean, these are the rides SoCal loves to recall.

"The Story of Our Struggle," by Johnny D. Gonzalez, aka Don Juan, is as much a personal reckoning as a cultural one.