By the 1890s a local and national depression left once booming Los Angeles’ business interests in trouble, darkening the city’s once sunny visions for its future. City leaders began looking for ways to embellish Los Angeles’ identity while generating income...
The fascinating and revealing stories of significant people and events at Simons Brick Company Yard #3, one of the largest brickyard operations in the Los Angeles area, powerfully elucidate the continuing history of Los Angeles’ tangled ethnic perceptions, and the boundaries and limitations arising out of them...
“The story of Junipero Serra and the Missions for dramatic purposes has been lying around since 1833, at least, for anybody to grab. But no one grabbed it until I did so in 1912. Now it is mine.” (John S. McGroarty). And so began a genuine cultural phenomenon of Los Angeles in the teens and 20s: The Mission Play, written, produced and directed by local Los Angeles journalist and poet, John McGroarty...
This project is made possible, in part, by a grant from the California Council for the Humanities in partnership with the Skirball Foundation, through the jointly supported California Documentary Project, a program of the California Stories Initiative.
Photographic & Postcards Images Acknowledgements: • The Huntington Library, San Marino, California • La Plaza History Society & Archive, Los Angeles, California • Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley • California History Room, California State Library, Sacramento • Seaver Center for Western History Research, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Los Angeles • Collection of William Deverell, Pasadena, California • Archivo Práxedis, Los Angeles, California. All rights reserved by the copyright holders. No reproduction without permission.
