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Richard Neutra’s Lovell Health House is for sale in Los Feliz

WEBBuilt and named for a popular health guru, the Lovell Health House opened in 1929. Photos by Barcelo Photography Inc., courtesy of The Agency

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Lovell Health House: How LA’s wellness culture shaped its modern

WEBLovell, who wrote a column for the Los Angeles Times Sunday magazine called “Care of the Body,” had become a local legend in a burgeoning scene filled with natural food …

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How Cultists, Quacks, and Naturemenschen Made Los Angeles …

WEBThe group mixed elements of various world religions with health food, healthy living, free love, music, and drugs. What began as a bunch of be-robed longhairs living in a house …

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LA County moves ahead with plan to reuse General Hospital as …

WEBThe 1930s-era Los Angeles County General Hospital that rises 19 stories above the northern edge of Boyle Heights has sat largely unused since 2008.. Now the Los …

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All the Ways Global Warming Will Make Los Angeles Less Healthy

WEBHere are some of the biggest warming-related threats to public health. —"By 2050, the Los Angeles area is expected to warm by 5 degrees on average," which will …

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The Respectable LA Houses of 1970s Hippie Cult The Source

WEBToday: the Source Family hippie cult of the late '60s and early '70s. The Source Family cult created one of the most persistent popular visions of Los Angeles: …

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La Crescenta’s old asylum for women to become park and …

WEBIt was founded by a woman, a nurse named Agnes Richards, whose work in state-run mental health facilities of the time left her critical of the system and convinced …

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Report: Housing the homeless is actually saving LA County money

WEBLast year, Los Angeles voters approved a $1.2 billion bond to build 10,000 new units of permanent-supportive housing over the next 10 years. Then, in March, …

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The plague came to Los Angeles in 1924

WEBThe plague’s arrival to the City of Angels in the fall of 1924 would devastate families, panic city officials, and lead to the wholesale destruction of a once-bustling Los …

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LA’s Santa Ana winds: What causes them and how they affect us

WEBA man who wrote to the LA Times in 1893 to complain about the name of the Santa Anas still had to acknowledge that "it is generally admitted that the winds are …

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The choice between rent control and pest control

WEBAfter each round of maintenance and glue traps, the mice would retreat, and I’d tentatively relax. But after a week or two, I’d begin to hear rattling in my dog’s empty …

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The booster campaigns that sold Los Angeles

WEBThe “ booster era ” of Los Angeles spanned roughly 40 years, from 1885 to 1925. Over these pivotal decades, rough-hewn and optimistic pioneering city leaders …

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LA should dismantle its freeways

WEBThe city should be blamed for allowing a deadly stream of cars to continue to travel so close to where people need to live. About 1.2 million Angelenos live within 500 …

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Abandoned West Adams hospital will be transformed into an art …

WEBBy Bianca Barragan Sep 30, 2016, 4:05pm PDT. An abandoned West Adams hospital is getting a new (but temporary) lease on life as an art space. For the next two months, the …

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Being Poor in Beverly Hills, the Most Unequal City in California

WEBThe chasm in Los Angeles between the rich and the poor is one of the biggest in the US, but, in all of California, Beverly Hills is the city (of its size or larger) with the …

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Watts Residents Will Die 11.9 Years Before Bel Air Residents

WEBOn the last day of his term, Mayor Villaraigosa released the Health Atlas for the City of Los Angeles (pdf): "More than 100 health indicators -- such as obesity, …

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‘LA Confidential’: The movie’s filming locations, mapped

WEBOpen in Google Maps. 6671 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028. (323) 463-5611. Visit Website. Crossroads of the World’s iconic tower, as seen from the …

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The Sunset Strip in the 1980s: The heyday of glam metal and hair …

WEBThe Sunset Strip of the 1970s was miles away from the whimsical peace and love of the mid-1960s.The new scene was grittier, tougher, and more jaded, with a …

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Spahn Ranch: Where the Manson family launched Helter Skelter

WEBThe Spahn movie ranch, shown December 11, 1969, where Charles Manson and his “family” of hippies lived at the time actress Sharon Tate and seven others were …

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