Los angeles area

L.A. has undergone some major changes in just 60 years. RIP Every building in these photos.

Elysian Park, one of L.A.'s oldest parks, exists today because its rugged land was considered worthless.

Our first interstate highway system once linked Southern California to the nation with concrete pavement and black-and-white shields.

This is the historic Mel's Diner. On Highland just south of Hollywood Boulevard. My daughter interviewed at EI (Elegance Institute) a school for Make Up Artists just south of here. She is also interviewing at MUD - Make Up Designory in Burbank

A busy day in downtown Los Angeles circa 1940s. The Cutts Building (now the Great Western Building) is at 706 South Hill Street. (Bizarre Los Angeles)

“Here the newly-built Los Angeles City Hall is buzzed by a Ford Tri-Motor airplane in 1928:”

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The Cocoanut Grove The last remaining remnant of the iconic Ambassador Hotel, which was otherwise demolished to build the current school complex. Once a world famous nightclub, a portion of the...

memoriastoica: “On Western Avenue looking south toward Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles. Circa 1972. Source. ”