Boyle Heights emerged as one of the most diverse communities in Los Angeles because of the absence of racially restrictive housing covenants prevalent in the rest of the City throughout much of the 20th century.
“Founded as an affluent white suburb in the 1880s, Boyle Heights soon became a proverbial working class melting pot. It [...]

Built in 1923 to designs by architect John Frauenfelder, this classical revival buildling at 245 S. Lucas Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, is an example of institutional housing for nurses. The City Project stealth mobile unit appears in the foreground.
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The Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail marks the first overland route through Alta California connecting New Spain (in what is now Mexico) to San Francisco. The Trail runs through 1,210 miles of urban areas, rivers, deserts, oak woodlands, shorelines, grasslands, and chaparral. Along the Los Angeles River, the Trail links El [...]

Plains Exploration & Production Company (PXP), the operator of the Baldwin Hills Oil Field, recently distributed a flyer complaining that its plans were being misrepresented at public meetings and in the media, and saying it had received requests “to clarify the record.” PXP then went on to list six “myths” about the oil field, followed [...]

635 San Lorenzo Street, Los Angeles.
Begun circa 1848, the cemetery is one of the oldest burial grounds in the city and received its last human remains in 1916. The family was an 18th century landlord in Los Angeles. This site also includes a John Byers-designed adobe enclosure wall (circa 1926).
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Los Angeles celebrated the groundbreaking for the new Ascot Hills Park in 2005. The Olmsted Report recommended a park there in 1930. The Ascot Hills are named for the former Legion Ascot Speedway, Los Angeles’s most popular auto racetrack during the 1920s and 1930s. Until the groundbreaking for the park in 2005, the largest open [...]

The site of the Sa-angna burial ground was a major village and burial ground of the Tongva/Gabrieleño Native Americans circa 1540 and contains remains of tools, jewelry and weapons.
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Woody Smeck, Superintendent, Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, writes:
Dear Friends:
This past week former U.S. Senators J. Bennett Johnston, Jr. (D-La) and
Howard H. Baker (R- TN) announced they are convening a year-long, blue
ribbon commission to recommend policies for the National Park System in the
next century. The system will turn 100 in 2016. The commission (National
Parks [...]

Chinatown dragon gate with City Hall in the background. Photo by Nic Garcia.
See a 360 degree panorama of Chinatown from corner of Broadway and Ord.
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