Celebrate 115 years of the iconic Santa Monica Pier with us! Join us for an outdoor screening of Barbie The Movie, live music, food, and more! 📅 Friday, Sept 6 🕒 Entry: 5:30 PM | Movie: 7:30 PM 📍 Santa Monica Pier 💸 Free Get your FREE tickets: smpierbirthday.eventbrite.com

Thrilled to share the line-up for LA History & Metro Studies Group - first up, a discussion w/ filmmakers of documentary on Rev James Lawson, on 9/20. Check out the whole program at dornsife.usc.edu/icw/la-history… Hope to see you there! LAhistory LA History and Metro Studies Group ICW: California & The West

Designed by architect Paul R. Williams, the Golden State Mutual (GSM) Life Insurance building opened 75 years ago this month at West Adams & Western. Founded in 1925, GSM grew to become one of the largest Black-owned businesses in the US. UCLA Library: calisphere.org/collections/26…

Today we're touring the mean streets of Raymond Chandler's noir Los Angeles and there's room for you on this time travel trip, departing Grand Central Market at 10:30am. New: his deeply personal reason for setting that ice pick murder in the Barclay Hotel! esotouric.com/event/chandler…

The City of Maywood turns 100 on Monday! Incorporated on Sept 2, 1924, the city will celebrate its centennial on Sept 7. cityofmaywood.com/461/Centennial… Maywood's #ArtDeco City Hall (built in 1938):

One of my favorite displays in Natural History Museum of L.A. County’s "Becoming Los Angeles" exhibit is the #WPA model of downtown Los Angeles (1938-1940). #DTLA

A labor history tour of Los Angeles created by the Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research -> archive.org/details/LA-Lab… "This map calls attention to many of the significant sites of L.A.'s rich multi-cultural #laborhistory." #LaborDay2024

The new episode of Boxing Movie Podcast features our documentary, listen and find link to watch the movie here: linktr.ee/18thandgrand

A watercolor of John Parkinson's design for Pershing Square (1910), via The Huntington: hdl.huntington.org/digital/collec… #DTLA

Here's to the next 112 years LA County Library! 🎉📚 The first #LACounty Library headquarters was located in the old Hall of Records in #DTLA. Photo (1929): lacountylibrary.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collec…

While the beautiful Richfield Building was demolished in the late 1960s, the elevator doors were saved. They are on display at City National Plaza (formerly Arco Plaza). #ArtDeco

This month's #ArchivesHashtagParty theme -> #ArchivesPatterns.  The Mulholland Dam is featured in this beautiful 1930 image titled "Man on Steps, Bowl (The Thinker)" taken by Japanese photographer Hiromu Kira. LACMA: unframed.lacma.org/2010/07/12/col… #HiromuKira

Pumphrey House, Santa Monica (Harwell Hamilton Harris, 1939) photo: Dr. Block Color Productions

This month @CA_Preservation hosts “Doors Open California” -> californiapreservation.org/doca. There are many SoCal tours, incl'g: 9/14: @PVLD's Malaga Cove Library 9/14-9/15: Homestead Museum cemetery 9/15: Santa Monica’s Mojica Hacienda 9/21: San Gabriel Mission 9/21-9/22: Covina Bowl

"Into the 1920s, a lot of houses in Los Angeles had sleeping porches, screened-in verandas and decks for getting a good night’s rest in the cool outdoors," Patt "Bluechecked" Morrison (2021). latimes.com/california/sto… #LAheat