INTERACTIVE FEATURE: Visit 27 of the lesser-known hotspots in local real estate history on our interactive map with audio highlights by reporter Thomas Curwen.
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By Thomas Curwen
Scattered throughout the sea of rooftops and tangle of freeways that is Southern California, our experts find a bit of paradise.
By Christopher Hawthorne
It may have started as a Bauhaus trademark, but it became L.A.'s signature. Glass is the city's cornerstone.
By John Balzar
Since the heady, speculative 1880s, the scenario repeats itself: Real estate prices go berserk.
By Diane Wedner
We have felt the earth tremble, seen it fall away from under our feet and felt fire hot on our faces. Yeah, so? Don't you just love the view!
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Spanish stucco and common dreams
By Carolyn See
I'M thinking of a dark wood dining table, highly polished, adorned with a bowl of gleaming fruit. Outside the bright sun glares, but the room itself is cool and dim; the fruit appears to float in twilight.
Apr 30, 2006
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Our very own Camelot
PATT MORRISON
THANK goodness for real estate. How could Southern Californians manage without it?
Apr 30, 2006
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The Hottest Property
By Paul Brownfield
The weekly column takes a spin through 125 years of celebrity transactions.
Apr 30, 2006
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What were they thinking?
By David Keeps
Urban sprawl is an L.A. concept. We should've trademarked it. Supersized housing? Ditto. Forget the scant skylines of downtown, Century City and the few pockets of verticality scattered about, the architecture of Los Angeles lies low and long.
Apr 30, 2006
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Vanishing points
Los Angeles is famously a city of today and tomorrow. Even though preservationists have been busy since 1894, the city tends to let go of its past. Dusty spaces are paved, wooden Victorians are turned to splinters, childhood haunts become mini-malls and whole neighborhoods disappear in the sweep of our freeways. Progress leaves little room for nostalgia, and often we don't know what's been lost until we stumble upon an old photograph.
Apr 30, 2006
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Watching L.A. grow
By Nancy Yoshihara
From 1919 to the mid-'80s, The Times' home magazines tracked Southern California's evolution from farm region to sprawling metropolis.
Apr 30, 2006
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Los Angeles' literary landscape
By Thomas Curwen and David L. Ulin
In "Ramona," her 1884 novel of Southern California, Helen Hunt Jackson did more than tell the story of the illicit romance between a mestizo orphan and an Indian sheepherder. Caught in the pages of her famous melodrama is a picture of the land that is perhaps more timeless than the tale itself.
Apr 30, 2006
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Step right in ...
Chalk it up to climate or to pride of ownership, but Southern California has exceptionally vibrant home, garden and architecture tours. At movie palaces in downtown Los Angeles as well as wildflower patches in our farthest-flung suburbs, doors and gates are open for visitors' admiration and critiques.
Apr 30, 2006
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