This Date in PhotographsHere's looking at how some Angelenos looked, on a December 15th. All images from L.A. Times via UCLA Digital Archive.Linda Ronstadt kicks back in 1974, the year her Heart Like a Wheel album went multi-platinum.
Members of Los Angeles' Black Panther Party hold a press conference. (And no, that isn't Spike Lee on the right.)Photo: LA Times/UCLA Digital Collection
Busted! Two San Bernardino members of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club await booking after narcotics arrests in Los Angeles. Photo:LA Times/UCLA Digital Collection
Remains of the Day: Residents and workers mill around the O'Connor Electro-Plating Corporation at 926 E. Pico Boulevard. Meanwhile, rescue crews comb the wreckage of the city's worst industrial accident, which claimed 17 lives and injured 150. Photos: L.A. Daily News & L.A. Times/UCLA Collection
Masses Transit: Hundreds crowd in front of City Hall to get a glimpse of the city's new streetcars at a Transportation Week celebration.Photo: L.A. Times/UCLA CollectionClick image to enlarge
L.A. Observed and others have noted that today UCLA's Daily Bruin newspaper ran a front-page wrap-around ad for Haagen-Dazs ice cream. An editor's note by Anthony Pesce, linked to by LAist, admitted that the ad was contrived to make it appear as editorial copy. Forget ad reps -- at this point in print journalism most newspaper editors, would be on their knees thanking heaven for their good fortune, but the Bruin editorial staff apologized for the ad, calling it "distasteful," "dishonest," "uneth
UCLA Lab Fire Fine The University of California, Los Angeles, was fined more than $31,000 by Cal/OSHA for safety violations in a 2008 fire that led to the death of a research assistant. L.A. TimesOakridge Residents Return After 170 days, residents of the mobile homes not destroyed by last year's Sayre Fire came back to them Monday. L.A. Daily NewsBoater Missing Off Catalina The Coast Guard is searching the waters off Santa Catalina Island for Lawrence Nash of Redondo Beach. Nash's 12-foot skiff
Original caption about a cat that served aboard a World War II attack transport: "Pooli, who rates three service ribbons and four battle stars, shows she can still get into her old uniform as she prepares to celebrate her 15th birthday."LA Times/UCLA
After seven brief seasons of existence, UCLA's Undie Run, a nocturnal event in
which students run through Westwood streets and onto campus in their underwear on Wednesdays of finals weeks, will
be no more. Thank university administrators, who pulled the plug on the
storied event a few days ago, probably because they couldn't figure a
way to make money off it.A story in the school's Daily Bruin reports
that "Administrators have threatened to cancel the ritual for years now
because of an increased
According to LAist, another library may bite the dust soon, thanks to state budget cuts. This one is no local outpost of the LAPL, however, but UCLA's wonderful Arts Library, located on North Campus. A tipster alerted writer Zach Behrens to both the planned closure and a petition drive that is being waged to keep the library open."UCLA Library Management," the petition begins, "behind closed doors and without consultation with the UCLA community has decided to close its Arts Library,
UCLA Dept of Physics & AstronomyThe View at 6:02 p.m.​For the past few days the Mount Wilson Towercam, maintained by UCLA's Physics and Astronomy Department, has unblinkingly captured the fierce progress of the Station Fire along Angeles Crest Highway. Now news sources including City News Service and the L.A. Times report that the observatory complex and the communications aerials that serve every L.A. television station are threatened by the topping flames.City News Service (a subscriptio
UCLA​The 105-year-old Mount Wilson Observatory, which today was called "the birthplace of the expanding Universe" by Discover Magazine online, seemed on the verge of destruction just three days ago, evacuated of all personnel on Monday and surrounded by 25 firefighters who then had to flee as flames edged toward the august facility. On
Tuesday afternoon, a massive drop of fire retardant by a Super Scooper and tanker helicopters laid a protective moat around the threatened buildings as w
UCLA​Back online after backfire activity temporarily cut its connection to a nearby Internet server, Mount Wilson's Towercam surveys the surrounding San Gabriel Mountains, revealing, happily, blue sky -- something that had been ominously missing a week ago. Lingering trails of smoke serve as reminders of the Station Fire, an arson-set blaze that took two lives and burned more than 160,000 acres of the Angeles National Forest to earn infamy as the county's biggest wildfire. It is expected to be
Sometimes lost in the debate about health care, public option or not, is the sad fact that even people with decent insurance end up going into debt to pay for procedures that aren't covered. A recent UCLA Center for Health Policy Research study found that 2.2 million Californians -- more than half the population of the city of Los Angeles -- are in debt as a result of medical bills not covered by their insurance.
One in seven senior citizens in the Golden State have medical-bill red ink despit
Stuck with a $535 million gap in their budget, a University of California Board of Regents committee met at UCLA Wednesday and approved a plan that would raise annual undergraduate tuition fees above the $10,000 mark.UCLA
The proposal that would see annual undergraduate costs reach $11,302, including campus-by-campus student-union fees and other charges, represents a near tripling of what UCLA students paid ten years ago.
A group of students at UCLA Thursday morning took over Campbell Hall to protest UC Board of Regents' likely approval of a 32 percent tuition hike that would put undergraduate costs to attend classes at the public campus above $10,000 annually.UCLACampbell Hall.
A UCLA spokesman said "no action is being taken" against the group, which used chains and bicycle locks to barricade itself inside the building. UCLA Chancellor Gene Block said classes at Campbell Hall have been canceled, and he u
This guy.The University of California Board of Regents on Thursday bit the bullet and approved a 32 percent increase in tuition that will see a two-phase, $2,500 price hike that will put the public system's undergraduate education costs at more than 10,000 a year and triple tuition and fees for UCLA students compared to ten years ago.
Protests are happening at UCLA, where a group of students has taken over Campbell Hall. But the regents were stuck with a $535 million deficit that Governo