Hadley Meares

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

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.

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.

This trailblazing annual music festival drew thousands of Angelenos — and we have one fascinating man to thank for it.

Fear. Misinformation. Denial. Rumors. The way humans respond to plagues hasn't changed much in the last couple centuries.

"Once she got her freedom, she didn't accept 'no' for an answer. Whatever she set out to do, she was very methodical about."