Sunday, September 13, 2015

Who Knew #23 City of Vernon: The Boxing Capital of the World

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The City of Vernon is best known today as an industrial city, but who knew that a century ago it was known as the "boxing capital of...
Thursday, July 23, 2015

Hiking Adventure #5 The Ruins of Echo Mountain

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In Altadena, Lake Avenue, lies a 107-acre playground for hikers and explorers called the Cobb Estate.  Some may know it as the "hau...
Sunday, July 12, 2015

Who Knew #22 The Last Major League Baseball All Star Game in Los Angeles

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Who knew that the last time the Los Angeles Dodgers hosted a MLB All Star game was in 1980. That is exactly 35 years ago without an All Star...
Saturday, March 28, 2015

This Day in LA History: March 29, 2009 Dodgers play at the Los Angeles Coliseum

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On this day, commemorating its 50th year in Los Angeles, the Dodgers played one game in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The Dodgers had...
Monday, March 9, 2015

This Day in LA History: March 10, 1933 The Long Beach Earthquake

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On this date at exactly 5:55 PM an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 struck Long Beach. Damage to buildings was widespread throughout S...
Sunday, March 8, 2015

This Day in LA History: March 9, 1963 The Onion Field Tragedy

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On March 9, 1963, Los Angeles police officers Ian Campbell and Karl Hettinger pulled over a vehicle in Hollywood with a broken tail light....
Friday, March 6, 2015

Who Knew #20 The Chicano Movement of 1968 Part 1.

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In late 1967 East Los Angeles housed a school system entrenched in racism. The Mexican American community had the highest high school drop...
Thursday, March 5, 2015

Who Knew #19 The Battle of Los Angeles 1942

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Just yesterday when I was looking into air raid sirens in Los Angeles. I came across an interesting article about a moment when panic landed...
Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Who Knew #18 Air Raid Sirens in Los Angeles

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During my last semester at Cal State Long Beach, I took a Sociology class in Pop Culture and my final project was to give out a full day c...
Monday, March 2, 2015

This Day in LA History: March 3, 1991 Rodney King Beating

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On March 3, 1991, Rodney King was caught by the Los Angeles police after a high-speed chase. The officers pulled him out of the car and be...

Who Knew #17 MLB Spring Training in California

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  The month of March always brings joy to every baseball fan out there. The beginning of the new season begins with spring training (pract...
Sunday, March 1, 2015

This Day in LA History: March 1, 1983 The Last Tornado in LA

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When you think about natural disasters in LA, the first thing that pops to your head are earthquakes or landslides but how about tornadoes? ...
Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Who Knew #16 The Baldwin Hills Disaster

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So what’s the craziest disaster in Los Angeles that you may not ever have heard of? Well, how about the Baldwin Hills flood that took place...
Saturday, January 24, 2015

Urban Legend #1 The Three Nuns

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I've always been a fan of ghost stories and urban legends, perhaps you have seen my other post which involve some sort of intriguing urb...
Monday, January 19, 2015

Historical Landmark #15 Mission Santa Barbara

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 2201 Laguna St. Santa Barbara, California 93105 California Historical Landmark #309 On my first road trip of 2015. I decided ...