Pictures of everyday places and people in vintage LA A renowned photographer and documentarian of the West, Ansel Adams is known for his photos of Yosemite and the Japanese internment camp Manzanar, but he also supported himself through a number of commercial commissions. One such job for Fortune magazine in the early 1940s sent him [...]
A Silver Line station under the 110 freeway is temporarily transformed with more trees, lights, and staff Imagine Los Angeles’s transit stations filled with leafy trees and greenery, bustling with street vendors, illuminated by brighter light fixtures, and equipped with restrooms, with staff available and on-site 24 hours a day to help with questions or [...]
Awash in rustic charm On the market for the first time in five decades, this cutie-patootie can be found on La Cañada’s aptly named Palm Drive, about a mile northwest of Descanso Gardens. Built in 1947, the Western-flavored ranch house is situated a fair distance back from the street at the end of a red [...]
The zones would extend for one mile around new market-rate or “luxury” residential buildings that contain no affordable units. | AFP via Getty Images It’s aimed at helping renters in a one-mile radius around new buildings The Los Angeles City Council voted today to lay the groundwork for creating “anti-displacement zones” around new market-rate or [...]
Other highlights include an elegant magnesite staircase, stenciled-beam ceilings, built-ins, and a milk-delivery door We can usually find something of value in an old LA house of any era. But there’s something extra-fascinating, dare we say even poignant, about a house built in the year 1929, in the heady last days before the Great Depression [...]
The angular fortress above the Sunset Strip was built in 1961 Now up for grabs in the Hollywood Hills West is John Lautner’s Wolff Residence. Built in 1961, the home was commissioned by interior decorator Marco Wolff, Jr., who asked the visionary architect and former Taliesin Fellow to design him something in the spirit of [...]
Including a 1930s pink palace in Pacific Palisades with Old Hollywood pedigree Welcome to another edition of our weekly series rounding up open houses to check out over the weekend, because who doesn’t love a little real estate gawking? This week’s options include a Pac Pal pink palace with Old Hollywood pedigree, and a handful [...]
AP Hearings presented a challenge for vendors because there were either no translation services, or not enough LA city leaders approved new street vending permitting fees Wednesday at one of the first public meetings on the issue where many street vendors could actually understand what was being said. The fee will be $291 for the [...]
A rendering of the Clippers arena, designed by AECOM. | Renderings courtesy of LA Clippers A trial concluded today in a case to thwart the NBA arena An attorney representing the city of Inglewood told a Los Angeles Superior Court judge today that Uplift Inglewood Coalition, a community group fighting for affordable housing, is using [...]
The bungalow court at 1255 and 1251 Sunset Boulevard is slated to be demolished to make way for a larger apartment complex. | Jessica Flores Should the city intervene? Nora Sanchez has been renting a unit in a 1920s bungalow court perched about Guisados on Sunset Boulevard in Echo Park for a decade. In that [...]