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    If you have a question about the historic streets of Los Angeles ask Glen Creason. Since 1979, Creason has been the map librarian at the Los Angeles Public Library. When he is not behind the reference desk, the L.A. native is a public speaker and writes on local history, maps, and music for a variety of newspapers and magazines. The author of Los Angeles In Maps enjoys watching baseball and has one daughter.

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Coming Face-to-Face with the Night Stalker in Broad Daylight

Posted on 6/17/2013 11:48:00 AM by Glen Creason
It was a muggy day in late August 1985, when a creepy guy wearing a black Jack Daniels T-shirt and dirty jeans sidled up to the History Department desk, asking for books on torture and the occult Read More

CityDig: Up on Bunker Hill—L.A.’s Toniest Neighborhood—in 1917

Posted on 6/12/2013 2:07:00 PM by Glen Creason
The only place to find Bunker Hill nowadays is in archival photographs, several fine books, and the cartography of early Los Angeles, but it was once a bustling neighborhood that rose more than a hundred feet above the city. Read More

CityDig: The Long Gone Golf Greens of L.A.

Posted on 6/5/2013 1:58:00 PM by Glen Creason
Once upon a time Los Angeles was one of the greatest golf towns in the world with a fine selection of first-rate eighteen hole courses that were available for play all year round. Read More

CityDig: Daytripping From Downtown to the Valley in 1924

Posted on 5/29/2013 4:32:00 PM by Glen Creason
After World War I the use of automobiles boomed all over Southern California and by the ‘20s cars were faster and more dependable—but getting anywhere depended entirely on good direction. Read More

CityDig: A Freeway Atlas From Before You Could Say You Took The 5 to the 2 to the 134

Posted on 5/22/2013 1:50:00 PM by Glen Creason
By the time this guide map was published in the beginning of the 1960s, Los Angeles had become a full-fledged freeway city and the automotive age for Southern California was in its middle-years. Read More

CityDig: DayTrippin’ on The Pacific Electric Trolley

Posted on 5/8/2013 2:19:00 PM by Glen Creason
This familiar map by D.W. Pontius, traffic manager of the Pacific Electric streetcar system, has appeared many times in many sources Read More

CityDig: Is This Beverly Hills' First Star Homes Map?

Posted on 5/1/2013 12:45:00 PM by Glen Creason
Several fascinating stories are told in this combination real-estate come-on and map to celebrities' homes that heralded the development of one of the most glamorous neighborhoods in Los Angeles in 1926 Read More

CityDig: An Auto Road Map From When L.A. Was Traffic Free

Posted on 4/24/2013 2:47:00 PM by Glen Creason
Los Angeles was just 17 years into the era of horseless carriages when this map was produced in 1914 Read More

CityDig: Hiking in the Wonderful Mountains of Southern California in 1918

Posted on 4/17/2013 2:05:00 PM by Glen Creason
This map was developed with R.H. Charlton, the director of the Angeles National Forest (which was fairly new at the time), to enlighten locals about the rural areas that could suddenly be reached by streetcar in 1918. Read More

CityDig: USC in "West Los Angeles" During The Roaring Twenties

Posted on 4/10/2013 2:27:00 PM by Glen Creason
The area now called University Park District was known as West Los Angeles in 1921. This Baist Atlas depicts a small, growing campus: USC. Read More

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