Googie Maps

Posted on 5/15/2013 9:31:00 AM by Eric Mercado

Decades before the Google Street View car roamed your neighborhood, pop art icon Ed Ruscha provided his own panoramic take of the famous boulevard Read More

Sisyphus Rising

Posted on 4/18/2013 1:06:00 PM by Eric Mercado

A trip down memory lane at the “Music Box Steps.” Read More

Keep on Ticking

Posted on 3/21/2013 10:07:00 AM by Eric Mercado

Built in 1928 by the architect behind the Orpheum, the Wiltern, and El Capitan, the Warner Brothers Theater helped save the fledgling studio, which had been locked out by larger exhibitors. Read More

Ghost Rider

Posted on 2/14/2013 11:10:00 AM by Eric Mercado

The gas station where James Dean filled up before his last ride—then and now Read More

Cross Eyed

Posted on 1/21/2013 2:13:00 PM by Eric Mercado

As it did with so many things worth preserving here, L.A. destroyed much of the original El Pueblo and reimagined it an indigenous stone’s throw away. Read More

Bumpy Ride

Posted on 12/17/2012 1:30:00 PM by Eric Mercado

Since it first landed on Bunker Hill, Angels Flight has had its share of ups and down Read More

Fountain Head

Posted on 11/1/2012 10:49:00 AM by Eric Mercado

Back when everyone knew him as Barry, young Barack Obama was just another cool kid discovering Marx and Nietzsche at Occidental College... Read More

Stand Still, Babe

Posted on 10/1/2012 11:10:00 AM by Eric Mercado

Long before Richard Pryor or Dave Chappelle ruminated about racism in America, Sammy Davis Jr. opened the door with then-controversial quips... Read More