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My Master's Degree...on Fire
5 PICTURESDescription
A five-part series documenting the burning of a master's degree in Strategic Public Relations from the University of Southern California.Last Updated: 2007-09-09
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Forgotten California - Nike Missile Site (Los Angeles, CA)
22 PICTURESDescription
Project Nike was a US Army project, proposed in May 1945 by Bell Labs, to develop a line-of-sight anti-aircraft missile system. Located on top of San Vicente Peak in the middle of Los Angeles, Nike Site LA-96 has been turned into a Cold War memorial park. The LA-96 launcher area has been stripped of its hydraulics and electrical equipment.Last Updated: 2010-07-14
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Forgotten California - Miscellaneous (Los Angeles, CA)
8 PICTURESDescription
Last Updated: 2007-06-11
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Forgotten California - Works Progress Administration Ruins (Altadena, CA)
20 PICTURESDescription
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was the largest New Deal agency, employing millions of people and affecting most every locality, especially rural and western mountain populations. It was created on May 6, 1935 by Presidential order (U.S. Congress funded it annually but did not set it up).
It continued and extended the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) relief programs started by Herbert Hoover and continued under Franklin D. Roosevelt. The WPA provided jobs and income to the unemployed during the Great Depression in the United States. The program built many public buildings, projects and roads, and operated large arts, drama, media and literacy projects.Last Updated: 2007-09-09
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Forgotten California - Abandoned Housing Complex (Rosamond, CA)
31 PICTURESDescription
Last Updated: 2007-04-25
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Forgotten California - Abandoned Convenience Store (Rosamond, CA)
7 PICTURESDescription
Last Updated: 2007-04-25
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Forgotten California - Abandoned Gas Station (Rte. 58, Antelope Valley, CA)
4 PICTURESDescription
Last Updated: 2007-04-25
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Forgotten California - Abandoned Bar (Rte. 58, Antelope Valley, CA)
9 PICTURESDescription
Last Updated: 2008-02-08
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Forgotten California - Hawes Auxiliary Airfield Radio Annex (Antelope Valley, CA)
24 PICTURESDescription
The USAF built a Survivable Low Frequency Communications System Site at the Hawes Auxiliary Airfield in Hinkley, California, USA at 34°55′1″N 117°22′36″W / 34.91694, -117.37667. The Hawes Radio Tower and radio annex were designed to allow communication in case of a nuclear war. In the mid-1980s, the site was given up and in 1986, the mast was demolished by explosives.Last Updated: 2007-09-09
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Forgotten California - Abandoned Factory (Mojave, CA)
3 PICTURESDescription
Last Updated: 2007-04-25
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Forgotten California - Miscellaneous (Antelope Valley, CA)
10 PICTURESDescription
Last Updated: 2007-04-26
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Honolulu 2006
10 PICTURESDescription
Last Updated: 2007-04-29
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Forgotten California - Olive View Sanitarium (Sylmar, CA)
35 PICTURESDescription
From the Herald Examiner (February 9, 1971):
KILLER QUAKE
14 Killed, 9 at Two Hospitals;
Southland Damage in Millions
Fourteen persons were killed today, nine of them in hospitals as a minute-long earthquake rolled over Los Angeles and suburbs at 6:02 a.m.
It was the worst recorded quake in the city's history.
Heaviest death toll was in San Fernando Valley, epicenter of the jolting, rumbling temblor.
Sections of two hospitals collapsed. Seven lives were lost at the Veterans Administration Hospital, 39000 Sayer St. in the Sylmar area and two died in a structural collapse at Olive View Hospital and Sanitarium, 14701 Foothill Blvd., Olive View.Last Updated: 2007-09-09
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M. Cole
10 PICTURESDescription
Last Updated: 2007-11-09
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Forgotten California - Abandoned Motel (Salton Sea, CA)
9 PICTURESDescription
Last Updated: 2007-05-27
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Forgotten California - North Shore Yacht Club (Salton Sea, CA)
4 PICTURESDescription
Designed by the Swiss-born, Palm Springs modernist Albert Frey, the old North Shore Yacht Club is located on the northeast shore of the Salton Sea, just off Highway 111.Last Updated: 2007-09-09
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California Love
8 PICTURESDescription
Last Updated: 2007-10-02
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Forgotten California - Van de Kamp's Factory (Los Angeles, CA)
30 PICTURESDescription
Last Updated: 2007-07-11
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Forgotten California - Miscellaneous Derelect Buildings (Terminal Island, CA)
15 PICTURESDescription
Terminal Island is an artificial island located in Los Angeles County, California between Los Angeles Harbor and Long Beach Harbor. Originally a mudflat known to the Spanish as Isla Raza de Buena Gente, and later called Rattlesnake Island, it has officially been Terminal Island since 1918.Last Updated: 2007-09-08
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Forgotten California - Abandoned Naval Housing (San Pedro, CA)
3 PICTURESDescription
A former Navy housing site that was constructed in 1962 for the purposes of housing personnel stationed at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard. The Navy housing facility was closed in 1999, and the site is now occupied by 245 former residences, a community center, and a retail convenience facility, all of which are abandoned.
Plans to develop the Ponte Vista housing development on the site have drawn fire from neighbors and others in the community, delaying demolition indefinitely.Last Updated: 2007-09-09
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Northern Ireland 2004
10 PICTURESDescription
Last Updated: 2007-06-17
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Netherlands 2004
12 PICTURESDescription
Last Updated: 2007-07-07
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Angelenos in Europe
6 PICTURESDescription
Last Updated: 2007-09-08
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London 2004
3 PICTURESDescription
Last Updated: 2008-06-19
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Paris 2004
1 PICTUREDescription
Last Updated: 2007-06-17
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Forgotten California - Dominator Shipwreck (Palos Verdes Estates, CA)
20 PICTURESDescription
The Dominator, a Greek freighter, ran ashore on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in California in 1961 due to a navigational error while lost in fog.Last Updated: 2007-09-09
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Forgotten California - Abandoned Cars (Camarillo, CA)
5 PICTURESDescription
Last Updated: 2007-07-11
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Forgotten California - State Mental Hospital (Camarillo, CA)
6 PICTURESDescription
Camarillo State Mental Hospital was a psychiatric hospital for both developmentally disabled and mentally ill patients in Camarillo, California.Last Updated: 2007-09-08
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Forgotten California - Abandoned Homes (Rte. 58, Antelope Valley, CA)
40 PICTURESDescription
Last Updated: 2007-09-08
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Forgotten California - Abandoned Motel (Hollywood, CA)
9 PICTURESDescription
Last Updated: 2007-09-08
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The Motel Signs of Route 66 (Barstow, California)
7 PICTURESDescription
Last Updated: 2007-09-29
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Forgotten California - Abandoned Homes (Rte. 395, Antelope Valley, CA)
21 PICTURESDescription
Last Updated: 2007-09-09
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Forgotten California - Abandoned Motel and Upholstery Shop (Barstow, CA)
20 PICTURESDescription
Last Updated: 2007-09-09
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Brussels 2004
2 PICTURESDescription
Last Updated: 2007-09-09
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Venice 2004
2 PICTURESDescription
Last Updated: 2007-09-09
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Forgotten California - Taylor Yard (Los Angeles, CA)
13 PICTURESDescription
Last Updated: 2007-11-08
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Forgotten California - Keene Preventorium (Keene, CA)
7 PICTURESDescription
Last Updated: 2007-11-09
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Forgotten California - Derelict Mining Town (Atolia, CA)
11 PICTURESDescription
Last Updated: 2007-11-09
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Forgotten California - The 101 House (Universal City, CA)
0 PICTURESDescription
Last Updated: 2008-09-07
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Forgotten California - Abandoned Linda Vista Hospital
0 PICTURESDescription
Last Updated: 2008-09-07
