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The LA-DWP Holiday Cookbook (1950s)

The holidays are here, and home cooks everywhere are getting out their families’ traditional recipes! Maybe some are pulling out vintage cookbooks, stained with years of use. This particular cookbook… Read…

Jimbill’s Coffee Shop, Sylmar

Jimbill’s Coffee Shop, Sylmar

Just a short article today! In 2015, the Valley Relics Museum received an incredibly generous donation of vintage menus (the Gorsky Collection). It was my task as the museum’s archivist… Read…

Ritchie Valens and Tony Casanova

Sixty years ago this month, on February 3, 1959, was the tragic plane crash that took the lives of three early rock and roll icons: Buddy Holly, J. P. “The… Read…