The date was April 28, 1942. Arnold Maeda, then a student at Santa Monica High School, reported to the intersection of Lincoln and Venice boulevards and had no idea where
The Landmarks Commission is poised to designate a two-story Craftsman with a unique Swiss Chalet look.
Last week, the commission delayed a decision to officially protect the Georgina Avenue home
It's Women's History Month, which means obligatory tributes highlighting women's accomplishments have been sneaking into your news feed. You know what I'm
Before they were selling rooms for more than $400 per night, three Santa Monica hotels were aiding battle-tired soldiers in the midst of the second World War.
Hotel Casa Del
Three bungalows slated for demolition were nominated by the Landmarks Commission for protection last week.
The houses on the 500 block of Hill Street in the Ocean Park neighborhood were
Santa Monica is fortunate to have grown up as a city with a unique housing identity — a setting that symbolized gracious apartment living in the land of orange blossoms and
John Boorman wrote and directed "Queen and Country," a beautiful film that he claims is his final movie (though, during the in-person talk that followed Tuesday's
Before they were sneaking onto foreign beaches with only a bathing suit and a knife during World War II, many frogmen were avid skin-divers and volunteer lifeguards in Santa Monica.
When the erudite "thinking man's" talk show host Dick Cavett invited sharp-tongued writer Mary McCarthy to appear on his PBS show in 1979, he provoked not
THE PAST - In January of 1915, Santa Monica opened what the Los Angeles Times called "the first municipally managed dancing pavilion in California" at the edge of
MAIN STREET — The Landmarks Commission will consider preserving the former studio of a world-renowned visual artist on Monday night.
James Turrell, whose work was featured in a large Los Angeles
