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Jogging the collective memory of Los Angeles through social media since 2009. Some people think LA has no history. They just don't know where to look.
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Will Rogers State Historic Park to reopen after being ravaged in Palisades fire
Will Rogers State Historic Park to reopen after being ravaged in Palisades fire
The historic home of cowboy-humorist Will Rogers was destroyed in the Palisades fire. But the park around that incinerated ranch home is reopening.
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November 7, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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esotouric.bsky.social
Walk ups are welcome for today's Highland Park Arroyo Time Travel Trip walking tour. We depart Lummis House at 10:30am to discover a rich vein of weird history and happy historic preservation stories--something we all can use right now. esotouric.com/event/arroyo...
HIGHLAND PARK ARROYO TIME TRAVEL TRIP WALKING TOUR
Visit the post for more.
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November 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Sat & Sun: This weekend, Pasadena’s Norton Simon Museum is celebrating its 50th anniversary (admission is free all weekend). www.nortonsimon.org/calendar/spe... #MuseumSky #LosAngeles

A few photos from yesterday’s visit:
In the foreground of this photo is the Norton Simon's 50th anniversary brochure. In the background, an audience listens to a harpist playing in one of the museum galleries. An image from the Norton Simon's exhibit "Retrospect: 50 Years at the Norton Simon Museum” shows museum photos from the events that happened around 1975. A close up of the text in the 50th anniversary brochure with the Norton Simon's beautiful sculpture garden in the background. The text reads: "On October 24, 1975, the Pasadena Art Museum announced its name change to the Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, formalizing the foundation of a new museum that brought together Norton Simon's renowned collections of European and Asian art with the extensive holdings of European and American modernism held by the Pasadena Art Museum."
November 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Sat: "Octavia Fest 2025: A Celebration of Imagination, Discovery, and Justice" kicks off at 9am with "Octavia's #Pasadena Bike Ride." www.pasadenanow.com/weekendr/deb... #OctaviaEButler
November 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Nov 7, 1963: Designed by Welton Becket & Associates, the Cinerama Dome opened #onthisday in 1963 with the premiere of "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World." losangelestheatres.blogspot.com/2017/02/cine... #LosAngeles
November 7, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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🕶️ Ready to go retro? Saturday, November 22, join Retro Pop Culture Humorist Charles Phoenix for his spirited “Southern California in the 50s & 60s” slideshow at our #LAonWheels Festival and celebrate mid-century SoCal pop culture!

Save your spot: go.nhm.org/charles-phoe...
Retro Personality Charles Phoenix enthusiastically points off-camera surrounded by a collage of retro SoCal photography with text, "Nov 22 • CHARLES PHOENIX / Southern California in the 50s & 60s / Natural History Museum of L.A. County."
November 5, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Nov 6, 1913: The Los Angeles Museum of History, Science & Art opened on this day in Exposition Park. The museum split in two and became @nhm.org and #LACMA in 1963.

Images from #NHMLA publications on @archive.org: archive.org/search?query...
Graphic of the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art from this museum publication (1926): https://archive.org/details/calanhm_000670/page/n1/mode/2up This photo of the original history exhibits comes from this museum publication (1978): https://archive.org/details/calanhm_000767/page/n7/mode/2up This photo of NHMLA's original art exhibit hall comes from this museum publication (1978): https://archive.org/details/calanhm_000767/page/n7/mode/2up Photo of the construction of NHMLA comes from this 1978 publication: https://archive.org/details/calanhm_000767/page/n5/mode/2up
November 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Tomorrow morning: The Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission will review the following Historic-Cultural Monument applications:

◼️ King Taco in Cypress Park
◼️ Brady Bunch House in Studio City
◼️ Sunkist Building in Sherman Oaks

Agenda: planning.lacity.gov/dcpapi2/meet... #historicpreservation
King Taco image courtesy of Google Maps. https://maps.app.goo.gl/eg6PWmYfyQDwYUe76 Photo of Brady Bunch house courtesy of HistoricPlacesLA.lacity.org: https://historicplacesla.lacity.org/report/2c9924a7-3ba7-47d1-b733-b3797b3e8913 Sunkist Bldg photo courtesy of HistoricPlacesLA.lacity.org: https://historicplacesla.lacity.org/report/59f9bfad-57b7-4cb5-bc93-3b6f00c609c2
November 5, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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My movie loving pal Randy Haberkamp is showing “Ed Wood” at the Old Town Music Hall in El Secundo this Sunday afternoon 11/9. It’s important to support these beautiful classic single screen theaters so I’ll join him for a Q&A before the film at 2:30pm. prod5.agileticketing.net/websales/pag...
November 5, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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🌴 Available now: WEIMAR UNDER THE PALMS: PACIFIC PALISADES, GERMAN EXILES, AND THE INVENTION OF HOLLYWOOD by Thomas Blubacher, translated by Elizabeth Lauffer 🌴
Promotional image for the book Weimar Under the Palms by Thomas Blubacher, translated by Elisabeth Lauffer. The cover features a vintage illustration of a house with palm trees and a coastal landscape. Text at the top reads 'AVAILABLE NOW' and the subtitle of the book is 'Pacific Palisades, German Exiles, and the Invention of Hollywood.' A promotional graphic titled “Author Events” features three upcoming appearances. The first event is The Boston Book Festival at Goethe-Institut Boston, 170 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02116, on October 25 from 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm. The second is at NYU Deutsches Haus, 42 Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003, on October 27 from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. The third is a Panel Discussion at Brandeis University in Rapaporte Treasure Hall, Brandeis Library, 415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02453, on October 28 from 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm. The background shows palm trees against a blue sky with clouds. A promotional graphic titled “Author Events” lists two upcoming appearances. The first is a Lecture at Brown University, 190 Hope Street, Providence, RI 02912, on October 30 from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm. The second is an event at The Villa Aurora, Los Angeles, 520 Paseo Miramar, Los Angeles, CA 90272, on November 5 from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. The background features palm trees against a partly cloudy blue sky, creating a warm, tropical aesthetic.
October 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Tonight at the Philosophical Research Society, author Sam Sweet will be releasing the fifth volume in his wonderful “All Night Menu” series.

“Lost Heroes & #Microhistories of Los Angeles" is sold out, but there will be a standby line. www.eventbrite.com/e/lost-heroe...
November 5, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Nov 5, 1913: The Los Angeles Aqueduct opened #OTD. At the dedication, #WilliamMulholland uttered his famous line "There it is -- take it." #LAAqueduct #Infrastructure #Waterhistory

Edited clip from this footage archived at the #HuntingtonLibrary: californiarevealed.org/do/7a4f8619-...
November 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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"What stories start to surface when artists, historians, and community members engage a place like this anew? The [Rowland Mansion] holds the story of California’s land grants & settler expansion, but it also carries quieter histories of labor, migration, & care.” www.sgvtribune.com/2025/11/01/a...
Artists turn the Rowland Mansion into a multi-medium canvas, and ‘redrawing’ narratives
The Rowland Mansion was home to one of the Valley’s first families. Here’s how their descendants are caring for it.
www.sgvtribune.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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For Dodgers' opening day in April 1960, the City of Los Angeles celebrated the 1959 #WorldSeries champions with this parade through downtown Los Angeles. LA City Archives footage: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ0f...

Still in awe that the #Dodgers are back-to-back World Series champions! #DodgersParade
November 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Remembering Fernando Valenzuela, who was born on this day in 1960. 💙⚾️🧢

A calavera in LA’s Grand Park in memory of #FernandoValenzuela. #DíadelosMuertos #baseball
November 1, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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"Indeed, #EastLA and #BoyleHeights are the spiritual geography for the project. Each of the collaborators has deep roots there, providing 'all these ways of coming at the same things from different generations,' Martha Gonzalez."

Boyle Heights Beat: boyleheightsbeat.com/quetzal-coll...
Quetzal’s new album weaves together Eastside memories and arts icons
The Chicano rock group collaboration titled “Memory and Return,” is an album that’s “an urgent battle against forgetting.”
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November 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Is there still hope for the Cinerama Dome? New permit request filed with city of L.A.
Is there still hope for the Cinerama Dome? New permit request filed with city of L.A.
The owner of the iconic Cinerama Dome has filed for a new permit for alcohol sales. L.A. movie lovers have been waiting for the venue to reopen since 2021.
www.latimes.com
November 1, 2025 at 3:52 AM
lahistory.bsky.social
Today: Self Help Graphics' 52nd Annual Día de los Muertos -> www.selfhelpgraphics.com/diadelosmuer...

A #DíadelosMuertos workshop hosted by #SelfHelpGraphics, circa late '70s/early '80s.
📸: Jerry Fredrick (from our collection)
A black & white photo of a classroom full of kids enthusiastically posing with their oversized calaveras after a Self Help Graphics workshop for Día de Los Muertos. Photo was taken in the late 1970s/early 1980s.
November 1, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Oct 31, 2005: Opened in 1962, the Movieland Wax Museum in Buena Park closed 20 years ago today. #waxmuseum #Halloween

Brochure (from our family collection):
November 1, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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🕸️ "High on the hilltop in #EagleRock is the house that nobody loves any more…Still young & strong, but haunted as it waits alone for the final stroke that will deliver it to the freeway…as the ‘hand of tomorrow’ reaches out to maim the present,” Nelda Thompson (Oct 1965). #HauntedHouse #Halloween
Nelda Thompson's article "Haunted Houses are REAL" as published in the Eagle Rock Sentinel on October 28, 1965. Nelda Thompson's article "Haunted Houses are REAL" as published in the Eagle Rock Sentinel on October 28, 1965.
October 31, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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🎃 Happy Halloween! Tourists scream…with delight as they pose with the Frankenstein monster at #UniversalStudios. LAPL (1966): tessa2.lapl.org/digital/coll...

🧟‍♂️ #Frankenstein sightings were part of the Universal Studios experience back in the early days of the #amusementpark. #UniversalMonsters
October 31, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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On October 29, 1969, computer scientists at #UCLA (in 3420 Boelter Hall) sent the first Internet message to a team at Stanford. See a handful of images about that #Internethistory courtesy of @uclasamueli.bsky.social -> samueli.ucla.edu/internet50-p... #histstm #ARPANET
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The first internet message was sent from UCLA fifty-six years ago 🌐

Watch PBS SoCal's "Lost L.A." host Nathan Masters visit UCLA Library Special Collections with internet pioneer, Prof. Leonard Kleinrock to see the logbook firsthand: www.pbssocal.org/shows/lost-l...

@uclasamueli.bsky.social
How This Contraption at UCLA Sent the First DM
At UCLA Professor Leonard Kleinrock reveals proof of when the internet was born.
www.pbssocal.org
October 30, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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After the Dodgers made the deal to ditch Brooklyn, Los Angeles officials used eminent domain and other political machinations to wrest that land away from its owners.
The ugly, violent clearing of Chavez Ravine before it was home to the Dodgers
Never forget. Before Dodger Stadium was a legendary baseball venue, the area was home to generations of families, most of them Mexican American.
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October 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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For #NationalCatDay: Sharing these adorable pix of the cat named 'Room 8' who made his home at Elysian Heights Elementary in the 1950s–60s. There’s a Room 8 exhibit currently at the @lapubliclibrary.bsky.social, featuring these photos by photographer Richard Hewett. www.lapl.org/events/exhib...
October 29, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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APA's removal of 'homosexuality' from the DSM "happened in part due to the Gay Liberation Front, of which activist Carolyn Weathers was a member, and its 1970 protest at downtown LA’s Biltmore Hotel." #LGTBQhistory

@qvoicenews.bsky.social/@lapublicpress.bsky.social lapublicpress.org/2025/10/how-...
How an LA lesbian librarian helped declassify homosexuality
The American Psychiatric Association finally declassified homosexuality as a mental illness in 1973. The American Psychiatric Association finally declassified homosexuality as a mental illness in 1973...
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October 28, 2025 at 10:33 PM