The San Fernando Cascades, where water from the Los Angeles Aqueduct enters the Valley. The small one on the left is where Mulholland famously told a crowd of 30,000 people at its opening in 1913, There it is, take it. The larger Cascade on the right was completed in 1970 and feeds the Foothill power … Read More
Of the nearly 400,000 miles of road in California, the lightly traveled State Route 127 between Baker and the Nevada State Line is mostly an afterthought, yet it holds within its modest 90 miles of length the entire history of California’s Mojave Desert. It’s a story of rapacious plunder, Robber Barons, and those who followed in their wake after the mines played out.
There’s a popular belief that Google, and the internet in general, started going to shit the day it killed the beloved Google Reader. If nothing else, it was the first signal that the fun and experimental Google everyone knew and loved had put on its big boy pants and gotten down to Serious Business (i.e., … Read More
Los Angeles Department of Water & Power, Power Plant 1. Completed in 1917, it was the first power plant to provide electricity to the city of Los Angeles, using water from the LA Aqueduct to turn waterwheels, generating 28MW of electricity. The power plant still operates today, providing 70MW of power, and two of the … Read More
Ken Mattingly’s Space Suit, On Display at the California Science Center in LA