About Whitewashed AdobeWhitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles, is a groundbreaking 4-part documentary series that tackles a long-overdue and sometimes painful examination of the early history of Los Angeles and the ethnic interactions that built it. 
VIDEO: Interview with Rosa Maria Lemus CarlosShe grew up at Simons Brick Company No.3 in Montebello, California. Her father was a decades long employee there. Simons Brick Company was once the biggest brick producer in the world. 
VIDEO: William Deverell On The 1924 Los Angeles PlagueOur Executive Producer and noted historian talks about the 1924 Los Angeles plague and it's effects on the ethnic people who lived there. 
 For those amongst Los Angeles’ seniors who are of a racial minority background, the memories of Los Angeles as a racially segregated city are still fresh and painfully raw. Even as late as the early 1980s, Black Angelenos could not buy or rent homes in many areas of the city and surrounding suburbs. But even restaurants, . . . → Read More: LA’s Oasis for African Americans – Val Verde 
Producer-Director Walter Dominguez recently visited one of Los Angeles’ important historic theaters, the San Gabriel Mission Playhouse, and recorded this video mini-tour. Located in the LA suburb of San Gabriel (the first European settlement in the region, established in 1771), the beautiful neo-colonial Mission-Style theater was built in the 1920s to showcase the spectacular production of . . . → Read More: VIDEO: San Gabriel Mission Playhouse Tour  The gargantuan earthquake that unleashed on March 11 under the Pacific Ocean just off the coast of northern Japan was so powerful that it shifted the axis of the earth and caused the planet to spin faster; it moved the entire island nation eight feet to the east. What this event did to the nation of . . . → Read More: Waves from Japan 
Today we have a short featurette called “Stories From Los Angeles” featuring parts from two of our favorite interviews. In the first part, noted author/historian George Sanchez (Becoming Mexican American) talks about one of L.A.’s most unique features and why it makes for such complex social interactions. Then we have long time Los Angeles resident Jack Sanchez . . . → Read More: VIDEO: Stories From Los Angeles  It is easy to become another hyperbole-wielding booster for Southern California on those exquisite days in mid-winter when the temperature turns summer-like and balmy, the sky is crystalline, the views go on forever, and flower blossoms perfume the air. January 15th was such a day: It was paradise in a former citrus-growing corner of the San . . . → Read More: Into LA’s Past: Interview with Connie Rothstein |
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Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles
From 1850 to 1950, El pueblo de la Reina de Los Angeles was transformed from a small frontier outpost in the distant Mexican territory of Alta California into a sprawling and storied American city called Los Angeles – its economic and cultural influence extending across the nation and the world. How did this remarkable achievement happen? What were the unique circumstances that provided Los Angeles with a way to greatness, and the remarkable and diverse people who envisioned and built this urban phenomenon? Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles – a four-part television series and multi-platform project seeks to answer these questions… Continue reading Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles