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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 […]

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The World's oldest McDonald's continues in operation as a fast-food historic landmark.

Throughout the 1980s, much of the Los Angeles basin and San Fernando Valley were being built out. Open agricultural land and undeveloped hillsides had once offered a blank slate for development; in the 1980s the emphasis of development shifted to the challenge of infill projects, additions, redevelopment for denser uses, and preservation. Yet even the […]