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...
Category: The United States
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...
Running While Indicted
Donald Trump is under multiple indictments in multiple jurisdictions for various crimes, including paying off hookers, refusing to return classified documents that belong to...
Paralympics
While the Olympic torch has been extinguished, the Olympic spirit remains. In less than two weeks Paris will host the Paralympic Summer Games where...