The Government’s Prohibition Poison Program
It was Christmas Eve 1926, the streets aglitter with snow and lights, when the man afraid of Santa Claus stumbled into the emergency room at New York City's Bellevue Hospital. He was flushed, gasping with fear: Santa Claus, he kept telling the nurses, was just behind him, wielding a baseball bat.
Dim Sum Truck in West LA
I was in Little Osaka earlier today when I got a mobile alert from Twitter. I’d started following @dimsumtruck a few days earlier. The tweet stated,”We’re soft-opening in West LA! Free dumplings for whoever finds us!!” I was walking back to my car as I read this and thought, “Where in West LA would the Dim Sum Truck park?”
I turned around and saw this. What luck!
Oak Park Kids Hold Bake Sale for Nuclear Meltdown
In July 1959, a partial radioactive meltdown rocked the Valley's giant Santa Susana Field Laboratory, a nuclear reactor test facility, leading to contamination and alleged cancer cases in Canoga Park and Chatsworth that some say continue to this day. The Neon Tommy blog reports that …
via Curbed LA: Those Pesky Teenagers! Valley Kids Stick It to Boeing.
Wilshire & Bundy ca. 1968
I found this great photo of the intersection of Wilshire and Bundy in west LA. It was supposedly taken back in 1968.
How To Hide An Airplane Factory
During World War II the Army Corps of Engineers needed to hide the Lockheed Burbank Aircraft Plant to protect it from a Japanese air attack. They covered it with camouflage netting and trompe l’oeil to make it look like a rural subdivision from the air.
Expo timetable stays on track, but faces hurdle
No delays are expected to result from the revocation of a permit that allowed around the clock construction on the Expo Line that will come to Santa Monica in its second phase. However, delays may occur if the second phase’s environmental impact report does not pass its Feb. 4 review.
What Happens When Banks Foreclose on Commercial Properties?
In Downtown Los Angeles, at least eight residential projects and one hotel have fallen into bankruptcy. Some of those projects, along with others in the area, have also faced foreclosure — an equally complex process with just as many possible endings.
via Los Angeles Downtown News and Information – LA Downtown News Online > News > The Big Takeover.