Of the 16 miles of Wilshire Boulevard, most of my memories are of the Miracle Mile, the stretch between Fairfax and La Brea… actually as far east as June Street, where we attended John Burroughs Junior High. I grew up in the 1930s and ’40s, just west of Fairfax adjacent to the Carthay Circle Theatre, […]

On November 2020, the Chicano Moratorium March (December 20, 1969) and National Chicano Moratorium March (August 29, 1970) were added to the National Register of Historic Places.

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“Make no little plans” is something many of us have heard before, a motto coined by famed urban planner Daniel Burnham. In a place as big and diverse as Los Angeles, a challenge with planning the city’s future is, in part, a matter of scale: UPDATE: Hollywood Community Plan On March 18, 2021, the L.A. […]

This Googie gem became a City of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument in 2013.

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I grew up in Hancock Park, and when I was about 12 or 13 my best friend, Kathryn, and I each got a bus pass, and this was our first taste of freedom. The bus we took most was the one down Wilshire Boulevard. We went to Wilshire and Fairfax and went shopping at the […]

Japanese immigration to the United States first began to boom in the 1880s, following the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. The absence of Chinese laborers created tremendous opportunities for other low-wage workers, although Japanese immigration would be curtailed in the early twentieth century due to an agreement between the U.S. and Japan. […]