LAPL Blog
Kelly Wallace, Librarian, History Department

Pages
Discover LGBTQIA Los Angeles: Morris Kight Residence
Los Angeles has over 1,200 Historic-Cultural Monuments, yet only a dozen have been designated because of their association with the LGBTQIA community.
Discover LGBTQIA Los Angeles: The Black Cat
Los Angeles has over 1,200 Historic-Cultural Monuments, yet only a dozen have been designated because of their association with the LGBTQIA community.
Discover LGBTQIA Los Angeles: The Crenshaw Women’s Center
Los Angeles has over 1,200 Historic-Cultural Monuments, yet only a dozen have been designated because of their association with the LGBTQIA community.
Discover LGBTQIA Los Angeles: Albert Van Luit Complex
Los Angeles has over 1,200 Historic-Cultural Monuments, yet only a dozen have been designated because of their association with the LGBTQIA community.
The Incomparable Miriam Matthews
As African American Heritage Month ends and Women’s Heritage Month begins, I’d like to draw attention to Miriam Matthews, the trailblazing librarian whose lifetime of achievements are worthy of celebration in any month.
Sharing Stories: LA COVID-19 Community Archive
History is more than government documents, statistical reports, and newspaper headlines. History isn’t just the chyrons running across the bottom of your television screen. It is the stories of everyday people.
Going With the Flow: The Fort Moore Pioneer Memorial
It’s been over forty years, but the water is flowing again at the Fort Moore Pioneer Memorial.
Purple Splendor
Jacaranda season is almost here, that magical time of year when the spectacular purple blossoms come into sight and chase away May Gray and June Gloom.
Remembering Old Chinatown
The Big Read this year is The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu.
RIP Parking Lot 17
Have you been by the corner of First Street and Olive recently? Remember that ugly structure where you parked when you had jury duty? Familiarly referred to as the Erector Set or Tinker Toy garage, the infamous parking structure is no longer there.