Nostalgia
Once upon a time a young child found her ‘Emerald City’ in the middle of Los Angeles. She stood on the northwest corner of [&h...
Author: Carole Eglash-Kosoff
The Big Red Cars
They changed Southern California from a sleepy pueblo of disparate communities to a vibrant entity. From City Hall to the Long Beach Pike to...
Southern California Athletes
Southern California has always been a breeding ground for top athletes, think Serena, Kobe, Kareem, Troy…even OJ. Generations earlier, however, there were others whose [...
Racism In Southern California
Racism in Los Angeles? No way! We’re in a blue state. We’re liberal Hollywood. We grew up with Jackie Robinson and Roy Campanella. We [&h...
Beverly and La Cienega
On the southwest corner of Beverly Blvd. and La Cienega now stands a monolithic shopping center, The Beverly Center. But for those years in...
Beverly and Fairfax
Growing up in the late 1930s & early 1940s in Los Angeles, the neighborhoods around Beverly & Fairfax were magic. If you stood on...
Baseball & The Chavez Ravine
Before major league baseball moved 3,000 miles west in 1957, the sport was already popular across California with Triple-A league teams including the Hollywood...
Ice Cream Parlors
Ice Cream! I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream. And through the years there has been a plethora of creative ice...
Aging
‘Aging isn’t for sissies’ is an adage familiar to seniors whose bodies no longer respond with the strength and fluidity they enjoyed a decade [&hel...
Old Boyfriends
I had dinner with an old boyfriend recently and it was an unexpected shock. He’d gotten terribly old. The bon vivant I’d remembered was [&h...