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Gushing With Pride: SoCal’s Not So Secret Oil Wells
This just in… There’s oil in these here hills. Black gold. Texas tea. Possibly billions of gallons of it, says a CNN Situation Room report observed by Metblog L.A.’s Dave Markland. Geez, you think?...
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Did Uncle Walt Leave Mickey in the Public Domain?
They say turnabout is fair play… Having argued for years that their company has legally appropriated characters in the public domain for its cartoons (i.e., Bambi and Peter Pan), Disney officials may...
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In light of the historic events shaping the national political scene both yesterday and today, I thought it appropriate to choose a video that illustrates how far we’ve come over the last century and...
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A Very Small Street Honoring a Very Big-Name Angeleno
Coronel Street. Just south of L.A.’s Elysian Park, along an unpretentious turn of Stadium Way, you’ll find a little street named for a once very big man about town. Don’t blink, though, or you might...
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Hanging With the Legendary Tiburcio Vasquez
Source: Wikimedia Today marks the 136th anniversary of the hanging of Tiburcio Vasquez, notorious California outlaw and folk legend. According to Los Angeles A-Z, my bible for everything L.A., he was...
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Face From the Past: The Ever-Notorious Judge William G. Dryden
William Dryden (LAPL Digital Archives) Melodramatic as they might be, modern courtroom TV reality shows wouldn’t hold a candle to the legal antics of 19th Century Los Angeles. Throughout the mid- to...
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Grave Scandal: Mission San Gabriel’s Infamous Blas Ordaz
California Missionary, Wikimedia Commons Buried near the foot of Mission San Gabriel’s altar, along with several other Franciscans, lies Fr. Blas Ordaz, a priest who made quite a name for himself in...
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Photo Find: Actress Barbara Payton on Ice
Actress Barbara Payton; Herald Examiner, LAPL Digital Archives This 1949 Herald Examiner photo depicts actress Barbara Payton chilling poolside shortly after LA’s icemen nominated her as “the girl...
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William Mulholland: LA’s Gravity-Defying Water Super Genius
William Mulholland; Wikimedia Commons You have to hand it to William Mulholland. While he may forever be reviled as the man who sucked the Owens Valley dry, he did so through miraculous fetes of...
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