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Joan Didion’s Los Angeles, mapped - Curbed LA
More than half a century after publishing the collections that established her reputation as a gimlet-eyed cultural critic—Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album—Joan Didion continues ...
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The history of Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Co. - Curbed LA
The pride of West Adams Thanks to Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Co., thousands of black Californians—in a time of profound racial discrimination—were able to obtain home loans and build ...
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How the Northridge earthquake changed how LA builds - Curbed LA
If it hadn’t been for what was observed after Northridge, and the Getty’s commitment, nothing might have been fixed.
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These 1920s apartments inspired one of the best noir films ever made
These 1920s apartments inspired one of the best noir films ever made For the set of In a Lonely Place, director Nicholas Ray recreated one of his first Hollywood homes ...
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The Raymond Chandler map of Los Angeles - Curbed LA
Los Angeles was Raymond Chandler’s muse, mistress, and his making. For his famous anti-hero, private eye Philip Marlowe, it is a torturous, nasty place filled with “tough-looking palm trees ...
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The meaning of noir—and 13 of the genre’s best films - Curbed LA
13 of the best noir films set in Los Angeles Laced with corruption in the 1940s and ’50s, LA became the birthplace for the literary and cinematic style ...
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Die Hard: The real-life tower that made the movie - Curbed LA
The real-life tower that made ‘Die Hard’ Nakatomi tower is really Fox Plaza in Century City, an example of 1980s power architecture at its finest ...
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The stories behind LA’s famous—and strange—street names
The stories behind LA’s famous (and strange) street names The origins are both common and weird, from cult leaders to old Mexican ranchos to the pets and family members of real estate subdividers ...
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This interactive map shows LA’s publicly owned properties
A new map of Los Angeles’s publicly owned land created by the city controller is intended to get residents thinking about how to maximize the potential of these often underutilized properties ...
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The history of Crenshaw Blvd in Los Angeles - Curbed LA
Crenshaw Boulevard rising For decades, the ’Shaw has been the historic main street of black Los Angeles. Now the communities fighting to celebrate its legacy are ready to make it ...
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Riot and rock ‘n’ roll: The Sunset Strip in the ’60s - Curbed LA
Rebellion and rock ‘n’ roll: The Sunset Strip in the ’60s How go-go dancing teens—and the underage clubs that embraced them—turned the Strip technicolor ...
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When mobsters and movie stars ruled the Sunset Strip
When mobsters and movie stars ruled the Sunset Strip The end of Prohibition signaled a new outlaw era on the Strip, one that was both dangerous and glamorous ...