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The ACLU of Southern California can trace its roots to 100 years ago this month in San Pedro, when Upton Sinclair and others ran up against L.A.'s anti-labor authorities.
In recent years L.A. city government has been embroiled in corruption scandals — but the history goes back to the very start.
Los Angeles had Mickey Cohen, Bugsy Siegel and Jack Dragna — Al Capone even visited now and then — but sprawl and civic corruption may have played a role in tamping down the violence here.
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 Taylor's Metropolitan Chorus sang popular tunes of the day. May 21, 1928: A customer get service at a Muller Bros. Service Station...
The Nation, check out our latest issue. Subscribe to Support Progressive Journalism The Nation is reader supported: Chip in $10 or more to help us continue to write about the issues that matter. Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? Seven miles up San Francisquito Canyon in far northern Los Angeles County, at an unmarked spot on an abandoned county road, there’s a pile of rubble. Obscured by the cottonwoods and willows that cluster along trickling San Francisquito Creek, the site is indistinguishable from the surrounding shale an...