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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.

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

CityDig: The Los Angeles Harbor in The Making

Posted on 4/3/2013 11:59:00 AM by Glen Creason
This 1909 map contains plenty of history and hints at how Los Angeles would become the shipping capitol of the West Coast. Read More

CityDig: Before the Dodgers, L.A. Had The Hollywood Stars—and Gilmore Field

Posted on 3/27/2013 10:53:00 AM by Glen Creason
To celebrate the hopeful beginning of baseball season once again, it seems worthwhile to take a look back at some of the sport’s history in Los Angeles. Read More

CityDig: The Utopia of Elysian Park Before Dodger Stadium

Posted on 3/20/2013 2:13:00 PM by Glen Creason
This official city map captures one of the most colorful and controversial pieces of land in Los Angeles history: 315 acres of rugged hillsides where livestock once roamed. Read More

CityDig: The Amusements of 1929 L.A.

Posted on 3/13/2013 2:45:00 PM by Glen Creason
There is something terribly fun about this little pen and ink map created while the country sank into the depression and Los Angeles tried to squeeze tourist money out of the depressed economy. Read More

CityDig: Henry V. Wall’s Pre-Freeway Plan L.A.

Posted on 3/6/2013 3:00:00 PM by Glen Creason
This hybrid panoramic/relief map of the greater metropolitan area of Los Angeles was done by one of the unsung heroes of local cartography. Read More
 
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