Archive: Time travel

Popular LA deejay Gene Weed signs off one of the top music stations of its time. The next day, KFWB went all news.

This training film for parking officers shows a lot of downtown street scenes.

May 15, 1965 was a bigger than usual Saturday taping night in the KHJ Channel 9 studios.

Los Angeles County was a much different place in 1939. Boy was it.

Posted to Twitter by historian Michael Beschloss, without explanation. Click to see it big.

Three photos from the Los Angeles Public Library collection show the emotion of the morning that Robert F. Kennedy died, a day after winning the California primary election and probably the Democratic nomination for president.

Who knows where this beauty of a sign was revealed by some construction a few years ago? I'll post the answer later. LA Observed photo...

Kinda cool if you know the west San Fernando Valley today as just suburban sprawl and Devonshire Street as a six-lane boulevard. Devonshire in 1940 was a rural state highway through the horse ranches of Northridge and Chatsworth.

It's '80s night at LA Observed. Moon Zappa does the full version of her odd little hit with father Frank, "Valley Girl," on "Solid Gold." Yes, the Zappas were Valley people.