The "lost" sounds of a long-gone amusement park - Off-Ramp for September 6, 2014

Historian Anna Sklar, who discovered a treasure trove of photos taken by the City of LA's engineering department from about 1890 - 1980. She's at the Baldwin Hills Rec Center, site of a years-long peat bog fire.
Anna Sklar takes Off-Ramp to the nicest places. Image: John Rabe

Off-Ramp® | September 6, 2014

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The sounds of Santa Monica's Pacific Ocean Park; the most powerful man in LA you never heard of; sci-fi tv and movies becomes real life; the Huntington's new American galleries

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