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Check It Out: W.W. Robinson’s Los Angeles Profile
If you’re into the latest best sellers, head on over to the New York Times book reviews. If, on the other hand, you’re willing to check out reading material that’s a little more “dated,” you’ve come to...
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Check It Out: The Original Foxfire Book Series
With the 1970s making their retro-glorious comeback, Dateline>City of Angels readers might want to check into the popular Foxfire book series that debuted during that decade. I was reminded of these...
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More Trash Talk From Victorian Los Angeles
1890s Los Angeles. LAPL Digital Archives. Ever eager to view our region’s current events through the prism of its off-the-wall history, Friday’s garbage post (below) got me thinking: How did Angelenos...
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Check It Out: “The Big Sleep” by Raymond Chandler
(Amazon image) What kind of crazy mixed-up book review is this? I haven’t even finished Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep yet. In fact, I’ve barely started it. But already I’m hooked and highly...
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Pussycat, Pussycat, Where Have You Been?
Whittier's abandoned Pussycat. (LAPL Digital Archives) Historical preservationists have some very strange bedfellows… Don’t ask me how I stumbled across it, but this offbeat San Diego Reader piece by...
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5 Must-Have SoCal Guidebooks
From time to time Dateline>City of Angels readers ask how your humble blogger “knows so much” about our region. While he’d like to say all the data is neatly stuffed into his brain’s memory banks,...
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October Reading: 5 Haunting Guidebooks for Ghost and Grave Hunters
Monument at Colma Cemetery; Michael Imlay It’s October, which means the season of spooks and spirits is upon us. Why not celebrate with a lively ghost hunt at a famous SoCal landmark or a romp through...
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