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Category: Biographies

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“The Neatly Prepared Cakes of Simple But Potent Hokum”: Louis Adamic’s “The Truth About Los Angeles,” Little Blue Book No. 647, 1927, Part Four

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  • Posted on November 21, 2025
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“Los Angeles, Where Ground is Already Broken and Foundations Are Laid for the New Capital of Kingdom Come”: Louis Adamic’s “The Truth About Los Angeles,” Little Blue Book No. 647, 1927, Part Three

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  • Posted on November 20, 2025
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“The Most American City in America Any Way One Looks At It”: Louis Adamic’s “The Truth About Los Angeles,” Little Blue Book No. 647, 1927, Part Two

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  • Posted on November 19, 2025
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“It Is a Young City, Crude, Wildly Ambitious, Growing”: Louis Adamic’s “The Truth About Los Angeles,” Little Blue Book No. 647, 1927, Part One

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  • Posted on November 17, 2025November 19, 2025
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Cascades of Controversy Redux: Sharing History with the San Dimas Historical Society about Puddingstone Falls, 1888-1910

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  • Posted on November 15, 2025November 16, 2025
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“The Voice of People Who Have Traveled Far and Well With the Vibrant March of Progress”: A Special Section on Black Angelenos in the Los Angeles Times, 12 February 1909, Part Eight

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  • Posted on October 27, 2025October 28, 2025
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Shell Game, Part Eleven: Some Early History of Walnuts in Los Angeles, April 1874

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  • Posted on October 25, 2025
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“The Voice of People Who Have Traveled Far and Well With the Vibrant March of Progress”: A Special Section on Black Angelenos in the Los Angeles Times, 12 February 1909, Part Seven

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  • Posted on October 24, 2025
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Shell Game, Part Ten: Some Early History of Walnuts in Los Angeles, January-March 1874

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  • Posted on October 22, 2025
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Tombstone Tales: Even More History of John Rowland of Rancho La Puente, 1791-1873

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  • Posted on October 20, 2025October 21, 2025
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