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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.
I too was memorized by "Autumn: The Chestnut Gatherers" by Georges Lacombe (took a photo of the museum text so that i could remember the name :). Recorded a video as i loved viewing it as the harp played in the background.
November 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I too was memorized by "Autumn: The Chestnut Gatherers" by Georges Lacombe (took a photo of the museum text so that i could remember the name :). Recorded a video as i loved viewing it as the harp played in the background.
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:
A few photos from yesterday’s visit:
November 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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:
A few photos from yesterday’s visit:
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
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
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
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
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...
Images from #NHMLA publications on @archive.org: archive.org/search?query...
November 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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...
Images from #NHMLA publications on @archive.org: archive.org/search?query...
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 in Cypress Park
◼️ Brady Bunch House in Studio City
◼️ Sunkist Building in Sherman Oaks
Agenda: planning.lacity.gov/dcpapi2/meet... #historicpreservation
November 5, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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 in Cypress Park
◼️ Brady Bunch House in Studio City
◼️ Sunkist Building in Sherman Oaks
Agenda: planning.lacity.gov/dcpapi2/meet... #historicpreservation
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...
“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
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...
“Lost Heroes & #Microhistories of Los Angeles" is sold out, but there will be a standby line. www.eventbrite.com/e/lost-heroe...
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-...
Edited clip from this footage archived at the #HuntingtonLibrary: californiarevealed.org/do/7a4f8619-...
November 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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-...
Edited clip from this footage archived at the #HuntingtonLibrary: californiarevealed.org/do/7a4f8619-...
The Dodgers' parade route then (1960) and now (2025).
The 1960 map is from a Barker's Bros ad in the LA Times and the 2025 map is courtesy of @ladotofficial.bsky.social -> ladot.lacity.gov/dotnews/2025... #Dodgers #LosAngeles #ThenandNow
The 1960 map is from a Barker's Bros ad in the LA Times and the 2025 map is courtesy of @ladotofficial.bsky.social -> ladot.lacity.gov/dotnews/2025... #Dodgers #LosAngeles #ThenandNow
November 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The Dodgers' parade route then (1960) and now (2025).
The 1960 map is from a Barker's Bros ad in the LA Times and the 2025 map is courtesy of @ladotofficial.bsky.social -> ladot.lacity.gov/dotnews/2025... #Dodgers #LosAngeles #ThenandNow
The 1960 map is from a Barker's Bros ad in the LA Times and the 2025 map is courtesy of @ladotofficial.bsky.social -> ladot.lacity.gov/dotnews/2025... #Dodgers #LosAngeles #ThenandNow
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
Still in awe that the #Dodgers are back-to-back World Series champions! #DodgersParade
November 3, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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
Still in awe that the #Dodgers are back-to-back World Series champions! #DodgersParade
Remembering Fernando Valenzuela, who was born on this day in 1960. 💙⚾️🧢
A calavera in LA’s Grand Park in memory of #FernandoValenzuela. #DíadelosMuertos #baseball
A calavera in LA’s Grand Park in memory of #FernandoValenzuela. #DíadelosMuertos #baseball
November 1, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Remembering Fernando Valenzuela, who was born on this day in 1960. 💙⚾️🧢
A calavera in LA’s Grand Park in memory of #FernandoValenzuela. #DíadelosMuertos #baseball
A calavera in LA’s Grand Park in memory of #FernandoValenzuela. #DíadelosMuertos #baseball
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 #DíadelosMuertos workshop hosted by #SelfHelpGraphics, circa late '70s/early '80s.
📸: Jerry Fredrick (from our collection)
November 1, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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 #DíadelosMuertos workshop hosted by #SelfHelpGraphics, circa late '70s/early '80s.
📸: Jerry Fredrick (from our collection)
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):
Brochure (from our family collection):
November 1, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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):
Brochure (from our family collection):
In her column, Thompson suggested the home at 6335 N. Figueroa was #haunted (by "what once happened"). Musicians responded & announced the haunted sounds had been replaced with “modern music that may be ‘out of this world,' but strictly of humor origin.”
The home was demolished in the late 1960s.
The home was demolished in the late 1960s.
October 31, 2025 at 10:59 PM
In her column, Thompson suggested the home at 6335 N. Figueroa was #haunted (by "what once happened"). Musicians responded & announced the haunted sounds had been replaced with “modern music that may be ‘out of this world,' but strictly of humor origin.”
The home was demolished in the late 1960s.
The home was demolished in the late 1960s.
Nelda Thompson was an award-winning features & society editor for the Northeast Newspapers (the company operated handful of #northeastLA publications). In the Eagle Rock Sentinel, she penned this #Halloween column 60 years ago that romanticized the old & not-so-old homes lost to freeway development.
October 31, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Nelda Thompson was an award-winning features & society editor for the Northeast Newspapers (the company operated handful of #northeastLA publications). In the Eagle Rock Sentinel, she penned this #Halloween column 60 years ago that romanticized the old & not-so-old homes lost to freeway development.
🕸️ "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
October 31, 2025 at 7:55 PM
🕸️ "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
This clip of #Frankenstein mingling with tourists at Universal Studios comes from a promotional film (1969) with actor Cliff Arquette wandering around #UniversalStudios as his alter-ego #CharleyWeaver. @periscopefilm.bsky.social: archive.org/details/ZPar... #Halloween
October 31, 2025 at 5:15 PM
This clip of #Frankenstein mingling with tourists at Universal Studios comes from a promotional film (1969) with actor Cliff Arquette wandering around #UniversalStudios as his alter-ego #CharleyWeaver. @periscopefilm.bsky.social: archive.org/details/ZPar... #Halloween
🎃 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
🧟♂️ #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
🎃 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
🧟♂️ #Frankenstein sightings were part of the Universal Studios experience back in the early days of the #amusementpark. #UniversalMonsters
A few photos from the 42nd anniversary of the Internet (taken on October 29, 2011) which was celebrated at UCLA's 3420 Boelter Hall! Had a great time seeing all that #Internethistory up close. #ARPANET
October 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM
A few photos from the 42nd anniversary of the Internet (taken on October 29, 2011) which was celebrated at UCLA's 3420 Boelter Hall! Had a great time seeing all that #Internethistory up close. #ARPANET
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
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...
Oct 28, 1981: The #Dodgers won the World Series #OTD in 1981.
"The Dodgers celebrated joyously, having lost four World Series since their most recent win in 1965." #SABR: sabr.org/gamesproj/ga... #baseballhistory
"The Dodgers celebrated joyously, having lost four World Series since their most recent win in 1965." #SABR: sabr.org/gamesproj/ga... #baseballhistory
October 28, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Oct 28, 1981: The #Dodgers won the World Series #OTD in 1981.
"The Dodgers celebrated joyously, having lost four World Series since their most recent win in 1965." #SABR: sabr.org/gamesproj/ga... #baseballhistory
"The Dodgers celebrated joyously, having lost four World Series since their most recent win in 1965." #SABR: sabr.org/gamesproj/ga... #baseballhistory
“Three butcher shops, four groceries, six bakeries, five delicatessen shops, fifteen markets, three confectionery stands. two creameries, six lunch counters, a tea room, rest rooms, & a number of other booths compose the big market.” LA Herald (1917): cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc... #GrandCentralMarket
October 27, 2025 at 8:06 PM
“Three butcher shops, four groceries, six bakeries, five delicatessen shops, fifteen markets, three confectionery stands. two creameries, six lunch counters, a tea room, rest rooms, & a number of other booths compose the big market.” LA Herald (1917): cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc... #GrandCentralMarket
Oct 27, 1917: Grand Central Market opened #onthisday 108 years ago. grandcentralmarket.com/history/ #DTLA
Photo of #GrandCentralMarket (1923), from @castatelibrary.bsky.social: csl.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/view/deliver...
Photo of #GrandCentralMarket (1923), from @castatelibrary.bsky.social: csl.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/view/deliver...
October 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Oct 27, 1917: Grand Central Market opened #onthisday 108 years ago. grandcentralmarket.com/history/ #DTLA
Photo of #GrandCentralMarket (1923), from @castatelibrary.bsky.social: csl.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/view/deliver...
Photo of #GrandCentralMarket (1923), from @castatelibrary.bsky.social: csl.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/view/deliver...
"They were hairy in the fifties and slimy in the eighties."
This #LAMetro mural at 7th & Flower includes characters from Hollywood's sci-fi & horror films. Acc'g to #JoyceKozloff, "All these big bruisers from the silver screen are reduced down to the scale of early home television.” #SpookySeason
This #LAMetro mural at 7th & Flower includes characters from Hollywood's sci-fi & horror films. Acc'g to #JoyceKozloff, "All these big bruisers from the silver screen are reduced down to the scale of early home television.” #SpookySeason
October 25, 2025 at 7:24 PM
"They were hairy in the fifties and slimy in the eighties."
This #LAMetro mural at 7th & Flower includes characters from Hollywood's sci-fi & horror films. Acc'g to #JoyceKozloff, "All these big bruisers from the silver screen are reduced down to the scale of early home television.” #SpookySeason
This #LAMetro mural at 7th & Flower includes characters from Hollywood's sci-fi & horror films. Acc'g to #JoyceKozloff, "All these big bruisers from the silver screen are reduced down to the scale of early home television.” #SpookySeason
Oct 24, 1919: The Los Angeles Philharmonic performed its first concert at the Trinity Auditorium in #DTLA. timelines.latimes.com/los-angeles-... #performingarts
It was great to see the #LAPhil archives on display at the #ArchivesBazaar last Saturday!
It was great to see the #LAPhil archives on display at the #ArchivesBazaar last Saturday!
October 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Oct 24, 1919: The Los Angeles Philharmonic performed its first concert at the Trinity Auditorium in #DTLA. timelines.latimes.com/los-angeles-... #performingarts
It was great to see the #LAPhil archives on display at the #ArchivesBazaar last Saturday!
It was great to see the #LAPhil archives on display at the #ArchivesBazaar last Saturday!