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85 Years Ago: Razor Magnate Pays $1.5 Million for Corner of 6th and Olive

By Eric Richardson — November 10, 2009 — 10 Comments

On November 10, 1924, safety razor magnate King C. Gillette wrote a check for $1.475 million to purchase the southeast corner of 6th and Olive from the estate of...

Screening Kicks Off Month of Events Leading Up to LAvender Los Angeles

By Eric Richardson — October 05, 2009 — 2 Comments

Tomorrow holds the first of two film screenings leading up to LAvender Los Angeles, a two-week event centered around the history of LGBT Los Angeles. The event...

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Ed Fuentes

Official City Seal Marks L.A.'s Past

By Ed Fuentes — September 09, 2009 — 5 Comments

Though it can be found all around us, especially here in Downtown, few probably pay attention to the official seal of the City of Los Angeles.

The 104-year-old...

A Look at L.A's Seedy Political History

By Eric Richardson — September 04, 2009

Those with a taste for L.A. history may want to plan to be near their radios on Tuesday afternoon. L.A. Observed's Kevin Roderick will use his time as host of KCRW...

First Interstate Bank Fire -- May 4, 1988

Los Angeles Times / UCLA Library

Downtown's History Light on Big Fires

By Eric Richardson — September 02, 2009 — 7 Comments

With the attention of Los Angeles still focused on the Station Fire, which has now consumed more than 140,000 acres in the Angeles National Forest, it seems appropriate...

37 Years Ago: Second Fire in Six Months Breaks Out in Barclay Hotel

By Eric Richardson — August 21, 2009 — 4 Comments

Around 2am on August 21, 1972, guest Harry Roche smelled smoke from his bed in room 532 of the Barclay Hotel at 4th and Main. Finding his room phone dead, he ran...

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Los Angeles Times

Downtown's Death Leaps

By Eric Richardson — August 11, 2009 — 15 Comments

The Downtown News this week writes about the six suicide jumps that have taken place thus far in 2009, asking whether there might be an underlying cause for the...

57 Years Ago: Hotel Statler Opens at Figueroa and Wilshire

By Eric Richardson — August 06, 2009 — 7 Comments

On August 6, 1952, the Hotel Statler welcomed its first paying guest, William H. Thomas of Cleveland and Washington, D.C. The 1275-room hotel cost $25,000,000 to...

First English Lutheran Church, 8th and Flower. Circa 1900-1910

USC Digital Archives / California Historical Society

73 Years Ago: Gas Company Purchases Site at 8th & Flower, Home to Historic Church

By Eric Richardson — July 29, 2009 — 3 Comments

On July 29, 1936, the Southern California Gas Company confirmed to the Los Angeles Times that it had bought the southeast corner of 8th and Flower for $125,000....