Hadley Meares
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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.
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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. -
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.
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The self-proclaimed mystic was an elusive, counter-culture curio who collected female acolytes. Shortly after his death, they disappeared.
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Did the government really give away millions of acres of valuable California land for free? Yes, it did.
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Decades after they were built, some of the most iconic structures for selling and servicing automobiles are being restored and repurposed.
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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.
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