Today's Los Angeles California Headlines...
L.A.'s Wilshire Boulevard Temple rebuilds on past glory
The landmark temple, long a center of Jewish life in Los Angeles, is embarked on a multimillion-dollar expansion and renovation.
The landmark Wilshire Boulevard Temple, the oldest Jewish congregation in Los Angeles and one associated with the men who invented the motion picture industry, has begun a multimillion-dollar renovation and expansion that symbolizes the reversal of the Jewish exodus from the eastern part of the city.
A jarring look at an earlier entertainment era in Los Angeles
Two minstrel pairs, one of them black, drew enthusiastic local crowds and lavish praise in the press.
Seventy years ago, on Aug. 20, 1938, The Times published an editorial mourning the death of Thomas K. Heath, one of vaudeville's biggest stars in what is now the largely vanished phenomenon of the minstrel show.
New artifacts unearthed at site of L.A.'s first train station
A full excavation is done at three spots where sonar found materials buried underneath a state park under development near Chinatown.
Archaeologists have unearthed artifacts at the first train station to connect Los Angeles to the rest of the nation at the site of a state park under development near Chinatown, officials said Saturday.
