The hearing originally scheduled for July 25, 2008, at UC Irvine on the proposed toll road through San Onofre State Beach has been cancelled. On July 11, UC Irvine notified the U.S. Department of Commerce that it could not accommodate the 10,000 people expected at the hearing. The Commerce Department has not scheduled a new [...]

The Golden State Mutual Life Insurance was one of the five largest African-American-owned insurance companies in the United States. In 1928, using all African American design and labor, the company built a two story building at 4261 Central Avenue in South Central Los Angeles where the firm occupied the top floor while the main floor [...]

The 32 foot high steel cross was erected in 1923 and dedicated to the memory of Christine Witherall Stevenson, one of the founders of the Hollywood Bowl.
Learn more about the Monuments, Diversity, and Democracy campaign.
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Back in the 1920s, developer Walter H. Leimert built a neighborhood on farm land where soy once grew. He donated a piece of land to the city, and in exchange, the city named it after him: Leimert Park.
Today you can stroll through Leimert Park Plaza — a small, triangular patch of greenery at the foot [...]

By Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
July 20, 2008
In downtown Los Angeles on Saturday there were sights and smells and sounds of a milestone event the concrete urban core had not hosted in more than a century.
Fresh bark. Tinkling water cascading down a rocky slope. California sycamores and coast live oaks, an expansive meadow [...]

Every year since 1969, Japanese Americans have returned to Manzanar, 225 miles north of Los Angeles, where more than 10,000 were incarcerated during World War II. During the war, more than 110,000 persons of Japanese ancestry were interned in 10 concentration camps following Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. Set below the towering Sierra Nevada mountains, [...]

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Neighborhood children celebrated Earth Day by planting trees on April 19, 2008.
The new Vista Hermosa Nature Park adjoining the new Edward R. Roybal High School in Pico Union, one of the most park-starved communities in California, opened on July 19, 2008! This is a best practice example of the joint use of parks and schools.
Vista [...]

Photo by Nic Garcia
Little Tokyo’s Aoyama Tree designated a monument
The 60-foot tall Moreton Bay Fig symbolizes the founding of the Koyasan Buddhist Temple in downtown Los Angeles in 1920.

By Joanna Lin, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
12:50 PM PDT, July 17, 2008

Los Angeles designated Little Tokyo’s Aoyama Tree as a [...]

. . . During his tenure Mr. Hartzog oversaw the acquisition of 72 sites, amounting to 2.7 million acres. The list went beyond national parks to include recreation areas, seashores, river ways and historical monuments.
“He was an empire builder,” Robert M. Utley, a former Park Service historian, said in an interview on Tuesday. Besides Stephen [...]