A deep dive into the rich history of LA. Join me and let’s travel through time. Started on Instagram as ForgottenMadness_LA. See link below.
Los Angeles, California
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Actress Lona Andre rows across the Paramount Studios lot, which was left flooded after a severe rainstorm on January 15, 1933.
Photo comes from the LA Times @uclalibrary, it seems that it may actually have been distributed by @ParamountPics
Via @Forgotten_LA
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Jaws on wheels? During WWII, this Los Angeles Railway car on the "P Line" had shark teeth that mimicked the scheme on the planes of Flying Tigers. The nod to the famed aviators advertised a shortage of streetcar motormen, sending a message that you too could help the war cause.
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Honoring the legacy of musician, actor and activist Harry Belafonte, who passed away today at the age of 96. Rest in power, Mr. Belafonte 🙏🏽
📸: Harry Belafonte plays the drums, Los Angeles, 1965, #UCLADLP Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection, digital.library.ucla.edu
ALT A photo of Harry Belafonte playing the drums. Behind him, there is an individual playing the bass.
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Harry Belafonte performing for a sold-out crowd at the Cocoanut Grove in February of 1957.
📷: Ralph Crane / LIFE
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April 24 marks @ALALibrary’s #RightToReadDay and as this 1946 photograph reminds us, book bans are nothing new.
Reporters examine the infamous banned book, Canterbury Tales, published in 1392 by Geoffrey Chaucer (LA Daily News). 📷: bit.ly/ucla-ladailynews-cant…
ALT Black and white photograph of reporter Vern Partlow and Joseph Epstein who are both dressed in suit and tie, holding up a copy of the Canterbury Tales book, in a room surrounded by books.
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The library The library
with a blue check without a blue check
ALT central library
ALT central library
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🌎#EarthDay is this Saturday! These #TBT photos from the @LATimes Photographic Collection show scenes of Los Angeles' infamous smog throughout the decades.
L.A.'s air quality has vastly improved today, thanks to environmental activism, legislative regulations and new technology.
ALT Jo Jeanne Angeloff rubbing eyes from effects of smog atop the Occidental Center building, 1965
ALT View of part of the Los Angeles Civic Center masked by smog, 1943
ALT Afton Slade, president of Stamp Out Smog, at a press conference marking smog's "21st anniversary," 1964
ALT Ed Costanzo, walking his two dogs on a hillside in Elysian Park on a smoggy day, 1980
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HISTORY: The piers of Venice and Santa Monica, captured via plane in 1931.
🎥: @Forgotten_LA
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Frances Anderson (1871-1928), the trans-woman billiards player who rose to national fame, earning $150,000 in exhibition matches and pool hall bets over the course of her 38-year career.
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Ralphs supermarket on the corner of 3rd Street and Wilshire Blvd in Santa Monica, 1940.
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Construction of the Rose Bowl, 1922.
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Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley surveys the Memorial Coliseum in 1957. The venue would become the team's first LA home the following year.
📷: Ralph Crane / LIFE
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Former FCC Chair Newt Minow made a speech 6 decades ago calling TV a vast wasteland. He’s our Power Player of the Week #FNS
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“It is illogical to cancel Star Trek!”
Students at Cal Tech march on NBC to save Star Trek following rumors of its impending cancellation. Likely earned the series its third season. (Jan. 6, 1968)
📷: Harry Chase / LA Times / @UCLADigLib
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Via @Forgotten_LA, one of my favorite Instagram follows, here's 1975 Alice Cooper chilling by the pool with his girlfriend, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, and her daughter, a Metaluna alien from This Island Earth. '70s California was a magical time...
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This blurry image of Compton in the aftermath of the 1933 Long Beach earthquake comes from the first-ever televised news broadcast, which aired 88 years ago today.
I wrote about it here: instagram.com/p/CMftV5zJJVs/…
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Was writing up a history on LA’s now-demolished Rochester House and couldn’t figure out why I knew it so well, and then really geeked out when I realized that it was because it’s in RETURN FROM WITCH MOUNTAIN (1978)
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TIL that when GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER premiered in Westwood, seven nazis came to picket the film so 30 moviegoers left their place in line to go beat the absolute shit out of them.
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Did you know that back during the Spanish Flu, LA was basically New Zealand during the second wave, shutting things down quickly and firmly? These headlines are each one day apart, and the actions saved thousands of lives.
More here: instagram.com/p/CI9TiYpJGpa/…
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“Welcome to Hollyw!!”
This might be the earliest-ever photo of the Hollywood Sign, seen here just partway through construction in 1923.
For more on the history of the sign, click here: instagram.com/p/CH1QFwXJBtJ/…
