Monthly Archives: November 2013

“The Gods of Change and Progress Must Be Appeased!”
In August of 1930, Basil Heathcote of the Los Angeles Times railed against the gods of progress that were responsible for the “meaningless back-East appellations” given to Los Angeles’ thoroughfares. He, like many writers before and since, specifically lamented the loss of Los Angeles’ “melodic” Spanish street names.[i] After all, “what could be lovelier, more […]