Randall Duell News Today

A nostalgia-filled ride through the 20 years of memories.

Sign up for the Morning Brief, delivered weekdays. Subscribe On February 22, 1929, hundreds of Angelenos crowded on the corner of 10th and Hope streets in downtown Los Angeles. They had come to celebrate the opening of a fantastical, four-story structure designed by esteemed architect Bernard R. Maybeck. Broadcast over radio station KFI, the event was hosted by L.A. Mayor George Cryer and movie star Dolores del Rio. An orchestra played standards and Paul Taylors Metropolitan Chorus san...