#lostla
History | LA History
This Jewish Pioneer Chronicled a Changing L.A. from 1853 to 1913
L.A. was an adobe town when Harris Newmark arrived in 1853. It was a metropolis when he died there in 1916.
History | LA History
Why Doesn't It Snow in L.A. Anymore?
Snow once fell on the Los Angeles coastal plain roughly once per decade, but the city is now in the middle of a 54-year snow drought.
Miscellaneous | Local Flavor
What Happened in the Elysian Hills Before the Dodgers? | LA as Subject | SoCal Focus | KCET
Before Scully, Koufax, or Lasorda, other legends emerged from L.A.'s Elysian Hills: man-eating lions on the prowl; an incredible "moving mountain" and an Edenic garden of exotic trees.
Miscellaneous | Local Flavor
Watch 'Lost Wetlands' | Lost L.A. | Shows | KCET
Los Angeles is no desert -- just ask the researchers who discovered a matrix of wetlands surrounding Ballona Creek that were paved over long ago.
