@LAhistory

From the USC Libraries caption: Yvonne Brathwaite Burke celebrates one-year anniversary on the L.A. County Board of Supervisors, 1980. https://digitallibrary.usc.edu/Share/pc34760iqtr05b8k7hqegeb2rd37ku73

Happy 93rd birthday to Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, born in Los Angeles #OTD in 1932! Among many firsts, she was the first African American woman elected to Congress from CA & the first African American on #LACounty Board of Supervisors. history.house.gov/People/Detai...

📸: @usclibraries.bsky.social

We've uploaded a bunch of "new" historical photos from the 1984 Olympics on our Flickr account. See the photostream here (more uploads to come!): www.flickr.com/photos/metro...

Five Artists Share Their Work in This Year’s Made in LA Biennial Ahead of the opening at the Hammer Museum, Hyperallergic spoke to participants whose practices embrace the show’s threads of history and dissonance.

“'If there is any single thread in [the @hammer.ucla.edu’s Made in LA biennial exhibition], it is historical,' Harden told @hyperallergic.com, countering the stereotype of LA as a place that forgets its past," @mattstromberg.bsky.social. hyperallergic.com/1046894/five...

Today (Saturday): The Pasadena Museum of History is opening two exhibits -> pasadenahistory.org/exhibitions/ #quilting #textiles #tiles

1️⃣ Stories, Traditions & Designs: Spotlighting the African American #Quilters of Los Angeles

2️⃣ Cha-Rie Tang: 48 Years of Artistic Innovation in #Pasadena

The Semi-Tropic Spiritualist Association, with historian Eric Brightwell Happy Spooky Season! Join me tomorrow, on 4 October from 13:00-14:00 in a presentation about the Semi-Tropic Spiritualists, their tract, and the Semi-Tropic Park. If you need a brief introduction. …

Tomorrow! Get free "tickets" now! But if you can't make it, I'm going to record it with my phone.

ericbrightwell.com/2025/10/03/t...

"In 1993, in a tribute to what was once one of Hollywood’s most famous supper clubs, the @museumofneonart.bsky.social recreated the Beryl Wallace sign." Curbed: la.curbed.com/maps/epco-si... #neon

You can find this #neonsign at Universal CityWalk (located here-> maps.app.goo.gl/5d9ni6ZSQmCn...).

Close up of the black & white photo of the Earl Carroll neon sign courtesy of the Huntington Library: https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p15150coll5/id/7240

Black & white photo of the Earl Carroll Theatre with its neon sign courtesy of the Huntington Library: https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p15150coll5/id/7240

Portrait of Beryl Wallace, courtesy of the California State Library: https://csl.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma990015359860205115&context=L&vid=01CSL_INST:CSL

Vintage #LifeofaShowgirl: Showgirl Beryl Wallace was immortalized in this neon portrait for the Earl Carroll Theatre in Hollywood.

📸: Theatre photos from the Huntington Library
📸: Beryl Wallace portrait from @castatelibrary.bsky.social

Before 'Chinese Virus,’ There Was ‘Mexican Disease’ in L.A.: Remembering the Burning of the City's ‘Mexican Village' in 1924 ~ L.A. TACO Mexicans in L.A. have been getting screwed by pandemics since the 1920s. Today, we remember how the ‘Black Death’ led the city to unjustifiably burn one of its first barrios.

"From within these confines, the Macy St district was home to an outbreak of the Bubonic Plague, a bacterial infection often caused by a rodent flea or contact w/ an infected animal. Known as the Black Death, the fatal disease had come to sunny SoCal." @lataco.bsky.social: lataco.com/mexican-dise...

Oct 2, 1924: Dr. Giles Porter made a house call to the home of day laborer Jesus Lajun who was suffering from flu-like systems. "An ancient disease, the Black Death, had arrived in the city of tomorrow," William Deverell. books.google.com/books?id=77E... #histmed

Explore this resource and join us on October 6th for a special session for educators with Dr. Kelly Lytle Hernández, one of the project’s lead scholars: centerx.gseis.ucla.edu/event/immigr...

Tuning into the Past: The Birth of Spanish-Language Television in Los Angeles By Carlos Francisco Parra cparra@usc.edu At the close of the 2010s, Univision KMEX Channel 34 and Telemundo KVEA Channel 52 regularly competed for the highest ratings among all television viewers i…

Sep 30, 1962: "After months of excitement, KMEX Channel 34 beamed onto the Southern California airwaves for the first time with a live ceremony on Sunday, September 30, 1962." @huscicw.bsky.social (2018): icwblog.wordpress.com/2018/03/09/t... #TVhistory #OTD

Yes! From a display at the #CatalinaIsland Museum:

Wrigley’s "purchase of Santa Catalina in 1919 began a love affair with the island, which he transformed quickly into a ‘vacation spot’ for those most loyal to the [Wrigley's gum] brand…" www.catalinamuseum.org/about-us #NationalChewingGumDay

Color footage of Wrigley Field during an exhibition game with the legendary Satchel Paige (1948): www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyjL... #BaseballHistory #SatchelPaige

Sep 29, 1925: Los Angeles' Wrigley Field opened 100 years ago today in #SouthLA. LAPL: tessa.lapl.org/cdm/ref/coll...

"It was the first ballpark to be called Wrigley Field as the Cubs ballpark was not renamed #WrigleyField until the 1926 season." #SABR: sabr.org/bioproj/park... #baseballhistory

Looks like the old Tuby's Coffee Shop is still standing in #Pomona, tho this #A-Frame building has seen better days: maps.app.goo.gl/pxJPAmsjvrAh...

☕️ Happy National Coffee Day!

Tuby's Coffee Shop in #Pomona, via the Huntington Library’s SCE collection: hdl.huntington.org/digital/coll... #AFrameCabin #NationalCoffeeDay

How the Getty is preserving L.A.'s Black heritage amid Trump's DEI rollbacks In recent years, the Getty has rolled out multiple initiatives aimed at strengthening and preserving L.A.'s Black heritage, including designating cultural monuments and awarding grants to support Black modernist architecture.

How the Getty is preserving L.A.'s Black heritage amid Trump's DEI rollbacks

Things That Aren't Here Anymore | Bullocks Wilshire | Episode 2 Bullocks Wilshire was a high-end department store at 3050 Wilshire Blvd from 1929 to 1993.

A Bullock's Wilshire clip from “Things That Aren't Here Anymore” narrated by beloved newscaster #RalphStory. #PBSSoCal -> www.pbs.org/video/bulloc...

On Nov 22, @uclaftvarchive.bsky.social will screen episodes & clips of “Ralph Story’s Los Angeles.” www.cinema.ucla.edu/events/best-...

Sept 26, 1929: Bullock’s Wilshire opened #OTD in 1929.

"John and Donald Parkinson's original plans for Bullock's Wilshire were scrapped after Donald Parkinson attended the Exposition of Industrial and Decorative Arts in Paris in 1925," @sgeetv.bsky.social. acp.lapl.org/book/iconic-... #ArtDeco100

Hear and get familiar with Tongva plant names while hiking Coldwater Canyon Park Nonprofit Tree People has worked with Native Americans and university scholars to show the Tongva language as a living culture

"Starting Sat morning, people walking a...trail at Coldwater Canyon Park will be able to scan a QR code and hear something new: wiit, the Indigenous word for California oak, and huukat, the word for elderberry, plus 17 other Indigenous names of #CANativePlants." @laist.com: laist.com/news/los-ang...

"The Los Angeles basin is the center of the Tongva world. For the Chumash, Tataviam, Serrano, and Acjachemen, the Los Angeles region is a critical part of their territories..." @ucpress.bsky.social: www.ucpress.edu/books/we-are... #CANativeAmericanDay

TCM Noir Alley host Eddie Muller, Archive Motion Picture Curator Todd Wiener and Archive Director May Hong HaDuong.

Behind the scenes of @tcmtv.bsky.social at Warner Bros. Studios. Join TCM Noir Alley host Eddie Muller and Archive Director May Hong HaDuong as they kick off “60 Years of the UCLA Film & Television Archive,” a 24 hr. programming block on TCM!

Starts Thursday, Sept. 25, 8 p.m. (PT) 📺 ucla.in/4nlxQOb

Alex Theatre Centennial Incites Awe, Devotion For a century, Glendale’s Alex Theatre has been more than a stage. From vaudeville to blockbusters, it’s been a cultural anchor, a gathering place, and a symbol of artistry. Now,

"When the palatial venue [in #GlendaleCA] opened its doors on Sept. 4, 1925, it drew awe as a vaudeville theater, musical stage production and motion picture house." outlooknewspapers.com/glendalenews... #historictheater

Pasadena’s 710 Advisory Group to receive report on history of displacement The 710 Advisory Group will receive a report at its meeting this week on the history of displacement related to freeway projects in Pasadena.

At tonight’s Reconnecting Communities 710 Advisory Group meeting, Architectural Resources Group will present a report about displacement due to the #710Freeway.

“In #Pasadena, an estimated 13,000 people were displaced for freeways, 'both built & unbuilt.'" www.pasadenastarnews.com/2025/09/22/p...

🚴🏽‍♀️ Sat @ 9:30am: “Eastside Bike Toxic Tour” -> www.eventbrite.com/e/eastside-b... [h/t @elrandomhero.bsky.social ]

“Learn about the history of different industrial sites in the community and how community members are fighting back against these polluting industries.” #environmentaljustice #envhist

After that 1911 case, several LA officials spoke out against women on juries, citing CA's Code of Civil Procedure. In 1917, California lawmakers passed a bill that granted women the right to serve on juries, upheld by the CA Supreme Court in 1918.

CSCHS: www.cschs.org/wp-content/u... #legalhistory

🏛️ Spent Tuesday serving jury duty.

Couldn’t help thinking about this well-known photo of California’s first all-women jury seated in #LACounty in November 1911, several weeks after California women won the right to vote. Library of Congress: www.loc.gov/resource/ggb... #womenshistory #legalhistory

“The Four-Level was the first major piece of the Los Angeles #freeways designed solely by the [California] state engineers, without any participation by the [City of LA] engineering dept that had originally adopted freeways as the primary approach to transportation in #LosAngeles,” Matthew Roth.

Thur @ 6pm: “Wayfarers Chapel: Documenting & Dismantling” at ARG office in #DTLA.

The program "will focus on the process for documenting & disassembling the Nat'l #HistoricLandmark in the midst of the devastating & ongoing land movement plaguing the #PalosVerdesPeninsula.” wcapt.org/event-5985105

Silver Platter Bar | Latinos in Heritage

ICYMI: Latinos in Heritage Conservation incl'd the Silver Platter on its 2025 Endangered Latinx Landmarks list. www.latinoheritage.us/ell-2025-nom...

“The Silver Platter, established as a gay bar by 1963 in LA's Westlake neighborhood, is the oldest extant Latinx LGBTQ+ nightlife space in the city.”