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Southern California

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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