The Olympics fixed LA’s traffic problem—can the 2028 games do it permanently? Transportation solutions deployed for the 1984 Summer Olympics are even more relevant today ...

Los Angeles was Raymond Chandler’s muse, mistress, and his making. For his famous anti-hero, private eye Philip Marlowe, it is a torturous, nasty place filled with “tough-looking palm trees ...

The real-life tower that made ‘Die Hard’ Nakatomi tower is really Fox Plaza in Century City, an example of 1980s power architecture at its finest ...

Los Angeles isn’t particularly well known for its streetlights. Maybe it should be. Not because we have the most streetlights (today that number hovers around 220,000, while Chicago’s ...

Rebellion and rock ‘n’ roll: The Sunset Strip in the ’60s How go-go dancing teens—and the underage clubs that embraced them—turned the Strip technicolor ...

In 1978, Los Angeles agreed to host the 1984 Summer Olympics and, as described in the official report of the games, a small, secretive organizing committee formed to oversee the delivery and ...

The destructive force of Rebuild LA How the nonprofit created after the 1992 ‘riots’ failed the community it was supposed to help ...

The pride of West Adams Thanks to Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Co., thousands of black Californians—in a time of profound racial discrimination—were able to obtain home loans and build ...

A common, frequent complaint about Los Angeles is that it’s so big and so sprawling that it feels like it goes on forever. Is it really? Does it really? To get a better grasp of LA’s relative ...

When the founder of Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale first came to see the site in the 1910s, San Fernando Road was "an unpaved road where vehicles mired down when it rained and sank deep in ...

Moving to a new city can be hard, especially an unwieldy, disjointed, sprawling metropolis like Los Angeles. One thing that helps ties all Angelenos together? Talking about things we know! We talk ...

A new map details Pacific Electric’s sprawling "Red Car" rail network as it appeared in 1926, harkening back to the days when LA was home to one of the largest mass transit systems in the world.