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Designed by Chicago's Daniel Burnham in the Beaux-Arts style, the Flatiron Building (or Fuller Building as it was originally named) wa...

The largest home ever built in Beverly Hills, Greystone manor, wasn't built by a movie star, even though many movies have been filmed at...

At least as early as A Woman of Paris (1923), Charlie Chaplin was involving himself closely in the musical accompaniment for his films. The ...

Ava Gardner and Mickey Rooney at Los Angeles Ambassador's Coconut Grove on 7 June 1942.

Los Angeles In the 1900's-Angels Flight & 3rd Street

One of the coolest bicycles ever designed, the Bowden Spacelander fetches anywhere from $8,000 to $20,000 these days. Read Full Article

Remnants of the RCA Victor Building in Havana,Cuba. Photo by Matt Dillon ,1995.

The story of White Rock dates back to 1871 when a pharmacist named H.M. Colver purchased the White Rock natural spring and its surrounding 6...

The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile has evolved from Carl Mayer’s original 1936 vehicle to the current vehicles seen on the road today. The most re...

You may not be surprised to hear that there’s little hard information to be had about the dawn of porn. But while data about 'the first’...

Nina Foch and dress designer Jean Louis sipping champagne at Samuel Spiegel's New Year's Eve party,1949.

Three years ago, my friend Paul Greenstein sent his 1936 Tatra Tatra T87 to the Czech Republic for ground up restoration. Here’s a couple re...

Accounts of the name, Hollywood, coming from imported English Holly then growing in the area are incorrect. The name in fact was coined by D...

GERMAN "MIKIPHONE" POCKET PHONOGRAPH, c. 1925. The nickel plated round brass case with large key winder opens to reveal black pain...

1955. The Lincoln Futura was built in Italy for Ford by a body-building company called Ghia. Total cost for designing and building this one ...

At the turn of the 20th Century, no building dominated Bunker Hill like the Crocker Mansion. Perched high at the corner of Third and Olive, ...

This now pretty rare instrument had been developed and patented by Johann Matthias Augustus Stroh at around 1900 for use in the Phono Indust...

In 1901 divers working off the isle of Antikythera found the remains of a clocklike mechanism 2,000 years old. The mechanism now appears to ...