The Los Angeles Dodgers lost Game 1 of the 1959 World Series to the Chicago White Sox at Chicago's Comiskey Park by a score of 11-0.

Los Angeles residents actively participated in World War II air-raid drills.

Twenty Los Angeles Times employees died in the Oct. 1, 1910, bombing. After the funerals and memorials, the suspects are caught and convicted.

On Oct. 1, 1910, a bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building killing 20 and injuring about 100.

In the 1930s, Charles Richter, in collaboration with fellow Caltech seismologist Beno Gutenberg, devised the Richter scale to measure earthquake intensity.

Larry Sharkey's photo appeared on the Sep. 30, 1959, Los Angeles Times Sports section front page.

KTLA-TV camera during 1948 Los Angeles Angels minor league baseball double-header at Wrigley Field.

Gold prospecting in the San Gabriel Mountains started in the mid-1800s and continues today.

During World War l, former sports writer Harry A. Williams went to Europe as a special correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. Much of his reporting was on the 91st Division.

A 1940 photograph of a jetliner over downtown L.A. leads into mysterious territory

On June 30, 1977, President Carter canceled the B-1A Lancer bomber, leading to thousands of layoffs at Rockwell International and its subcontractors.

From 1927 through 1945, La Cienega Boulevard had an oil well in its center divider.

In 1960, owner Bob Short moved the Lakers from Minneapolis to Los Angeles.

Los Angeles Times staff photographer Steve Fontanini and staff writer Charles Hillinger visited with Lulu in her Santa Barbara home.

Photo gallery of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, which in 2019 will be renamed the United Airlines Memorial Coliseum.

On Sept. 3, 1919, President Woodrow Wilson embarked on a nationwide railroad tour to promote American participation in the League of Nations.

In 2010, on the 25th anniversary of the quake, Los Angeles Times writer Daniel Hernandez wrote in a La Plaza blog post: Mexico City on Sunday marked 25 years since a powerful earthquake devastated the...

Ansel Adams, in the midst of a three-week promotional tour for his book “Yosemite and the Range of Light,” broke into laughter over a question about his famous nose.

Tom Bradley, the city's first black mayor, served from 1973 to 1993 and is credited with building one of the most diverse workforces in government.

During the ground-breaking for Dodger Stadium, several giant earthmovers plunged down a 200-foot slope, shoving tons of dirt ahead of them as spectators watched.

In the early 1930s, Roland C. Casad introduced a new form of advertising: text on squash.

In 1982, Johnny Carson was the undisputed king of late-night television.

Here’s a selection of images of Tommy Lasorda I recently scanned from the Los Angeles Times archives.

Bing already had five sons, and in 1961 a sixth, Nathaniel, was born.

For 16 years, a cat named "Room 8" was a fixture at Elysian Heights Elementary.

Sep. 13, 1973: Burt Blum, a 39-year-old Encino builder and accountant, points out his personalized car license plate that the Department of Motor Vehicles wanted to recall as "offensive."

Martin De Young, 100, a resident of the Veterans Home of California in Yountville, says he cut down to three cigars a day, one after each meal.

Before the 1964 presidential election, Harold E.

An unusual vehicle safety feature — bumpers filled with water — appeared in the late 1960s.

After a longstanding legal dispute over the location of a 40-foot McDonald’s sign, Daniel Chadwick took action.

Following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Los Angeles Times staff members rushed to New York.

A youngster makes the most of the wettest Sept. 10 in local history by gliding a bike through a flooded area at Culver Boulevard and Pacific Avenue in Playa del Rey.

One hundred and fifty African American students attend the previously all white Plymouth School in Monrovia.

Joe Strummer of the Clash appearing at the music festival at the Monterey Fairgrounds.

Point Arguello — California's version of the Bermuda Triangle — lies northwest of Santa Barbara.

The March 10, 1933, Long Beach earthquake destroyed numerous schools. During rebuilding, many school classrooms were inside canvas tents.

The Carthay Circle, built in 1926, was one of Hollywood's leading theaters in the 1930s and '40s with many red-carpet movie openings including "Romeo and Juliet" (1936), "Snow White and the Seven Dwar...

Heat was an inconvenience at the Off Road Vehicle World Championships at Riverside International Raceway.

Long before Black Friday, merchants in downtown Los Angeles created their own shopping frenzy with Dollar Day.

Old Pacific Electric trolleys are loaded aboard Moore-McCormack Lines' SS Mormacland at Berth 232 of Terminal Island for shipment to Argentina.

Many of the original Newport Beach homes sat on the beach.

Statue of Father Junipero Serra above visitors exploring Old Plaza.

Physicist Virginia Carter left the lab to work for Norman Lear's production company.

Muscle Beach started in the 1930s just south of the Santa Monica Pier.