Reading Room
What kind of crazy mixed-up book review is this? I haven’t even finished Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep yet. In fact, I’ve barely started it. But already I’m hooked and highly recommend it.
Embarrassing as it is for a self-proclaimed “true Angeleno” like me to admit, I’ve never read any of Chandler’s works. I guess I [...]
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Reading Room
Ever eager to view our region’s current events through the prism of its off-the-wall history, Friday’s garbage post (below) got me thinking: How did Angelenos handle their refuse problems, say, a century or so ago?
As you might expect, the answer isn’t very pretty.
Ralph Shaffer, history professor emeritus at Cal Poly, Pomona, has written an interesting [...]
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