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California Fool’s Gold — Exploring Yorba Linda, the Land of Gracious Living
INTRODUCTION Yorba Linda Fire Station No. 10 If Yorba Linda is known for one thing, it’s as the birthplace of disgraced Republican president Richard Nixon. 22 years after his death, the memory of Yorba...
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No Enclave — Exploring Canadian Los Angeles
Canadian-Americans are a largely overlooked minority in vast landscape of Los Angeles‘s diversity. Los Angeles, after all, has no Little Toronto nor an Historic Canuck Town. Whereas immigrants from...
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Remembering Tony Ogden & World of Twist
It’s been ten years since the death of Tony Ogden (30 May 1962 – 26 July 2006). William Anthony Ogden was born in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport (Greater Manchester) in 1962. He studied art and design at...
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Top 100 Los Angeles Attractions (not in Central Los Angeles or the Westside)
If you’re familiar at all with local Los Angeles clickbait generators and news aggregators you may’ve noticed that whether they’re promoting the hottest restaurants for “celeb” sightings, the hottest...
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No Enclave — Exploring Argentine Los Angeles
INTRODUCTION As of 2015, an estimated 48.4% of Angelenos were “Hispanic of any race.” The majority of Hispanic and Latino Angelenos are of Mexican heritage but the region is also well known for being...
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No Enclave — Exploring Bolivian Los Angeles
As of 2015, an estimated 48.4% of Angelenos were “Hispanic of any race.” The majority of Hispanic and Latino Angelenos are of Mexican heritage but the region is also well known for being home to the...
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No Enclave — Exploring Brazilian Los Angeles
As of 2015, an estimated 48.4% of Angelenos were “Hispanic of any race.” The majority of Hispanic and Latino Angelenos are of Mexican heritage but the region is also well known for being home to the...
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No Enclave — Exploring Chilean Los Angeles
As of 2015, an estimated 48.4% of Angelenos were “Hispanic of any race.” The majority of Hispanic and Latino Angelenos are of Mexican heritage but the region is also well known for being home to the...
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No Enclave — Exploring Colombian Los Angeles
As of 2015, an estimated 48.4% of Angelenos were “Hispanic of any race.” The majority of Hispanic and Latino Angelenos are of Mexican heritage but the region is also well known for being home to the...
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Swinging Doors — Footsies
Footsies is a bar in the Cypress Park neighborhood of Northeast Los Angeles. I’ve been going there with wavering semi-regularity for about 17 years — as many as I’ve lived in Los Angeles. Online...
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Swinging Doors — Visiting The Verdugo
Verdugo Bar is located in the Glassell Park neighborhood of Northeast Los Angeles at 3408 Verdugo Road. Verdugo Road (along with Verdugo Canyon, Verdugo City, the Verdugo Hills, Verdugo Park, and the...
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No Enclave — Exploring Islamic Los Angeles
I’m not religious. I am curious about my fellow humans, however, and the various ways in which we attempt to understand our world. I suppose it’s partly for that reason that I’ve always been...
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California Fool’s Gold — Exploring Palms
Palms is a neighborhood that founded as an agricultural and vacation community in 1886. Today it’s mostly comprised of apartment buildings, crisscrossed with commercial corridors, and the most densely...
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Southland Parks — Visiting O’Melveny Park
I’d wanted to visit O’Melveny Park since first getting wind of its existence several years ago and seeing repeated references to its being the second largest park in Los Angeles (after much better...
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Swinging Doors — A Guide to Winter Warmers
Though technically still autumn, it’s now felt like winter for over a week here in Los Angeles. The days are very short and on the long cold nights it’s been dipping into the single digits. We’ve been...
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Southland Parks — Visiting Granada Park
A week ago I visited O’Melveny Park, often said to be Los Angeles’s second largest park — but actually its fifth. A few days later I visited the actual second largest park, albeit of Alhambra, not Los...
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Los Angeles Linguistics Part 1 — A Tale of Two Neighborhoods
There is a casualness and imprecision practically intrinsic to Los Angeles. It’s only in this city that I’ve encountered people who aren’t sure what neighborhood they live in. What’s more, they seem...
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Office Park Life — Visiting Park DTLA
Although the earliest office parks first appeared in the 1950s, their golden age was the 1980s, when they sprang up like boxy, shiny, fairy rings in the liminal spaces between cities and suburbs;...
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Mapping the Geography and History of South Los Angeles
Attempting map of South Los Angeles is bound to be contentious, but I’ve gone ahead and had a go at it anyway. No matter what anyone tells you there are no official borders of South Los Angeles and it...
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California Fool’s Gold — The 10th Anniversary
2017 marks the tenth anniversary of my explorations of the neighborhoods and communities of Los Angeles and Southern California. In the past decade I managed, although not planned, to explore and...
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