Waiting in line for hours to vote should be considered less a story on voter enthusiasm and more a story on voter suppression. No one should have to wait hours to vote.

On a side street in East Los Angeles, it feels like nothing has changed since 1930. #moorishstyle #mydayinLA #esotouricroadtrip #vernaculararchitecture #salmonpink

If you watch the chariot racing scene in Ben-Hur (1925) carefully, you can see assistant director Henry Hathaway running out onto the track. He was trying to warn the chariot drivers of an unscripted crash

At the old Melmac plastic factory, a pre-columbian figure peeps from behind shrubs real and fantastic. #mydayinLA #esotouricroadtrip #quonsethut

"The 40's", Hubbard Street Dance Company tessa.lapl.org/cdm/ref/collec…

A vintage # Kodachrome slide of Sunset & Vine during the 1940s

Happy Birthday to 'The First Lady of American Cinema' Lillian Gish! (1893 – 1993)

Photographer Focus: Kenneth Alexander — Joan Crawford for The Taxi Dancer (1927).

Another interesting portrait of Joan by Alexander, 1927.

East Los Angeles, California

In the script she was just an unnamed Joker "hench-wench" w/ no discernible personality. When Arleen began reading her lines in that unforgettable voice so poignant & full of heart I nearly fell off my chair! She brought SO much more than was on the page & a legend was born.❤️🤣

Gene Tierney, c. 1941

Science Hall at U.S.C. tessa.lapl.org/cdm/ref/collec…

Isobel Elsom and Ida Lupino in “Ladies In Retirement” (1941) — a movie that seems it should get more attention each October than it does

A wonderfully weird wee castle on the East Los Angeles/Montebello border that looks like a bottle of Kewpie brand mayonnaise. Until recently, tall plantings obscured the tower with its plastered window arches. #mydayinLA #esotouricroadtrip #storybookstyle

Photo by Chris Cristi shows L.A. City Hall lit up in the colors of the Armenian flag as student protesters stage a peaceful demonstration to bring attention to the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan

Rossano Brazzi in a publicity portrait for Interlude (1957)