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Kevin Roderick • November 24 2008 3:58 PM

Car in market
Pat Saperstein at Eating L.A. has some fun digging through the newly released Life magazine photo archive on Google for some prime Los Angeles images. She hit a trove of late 1940s shots showing postwar car culture, such as this drive-into market.

Native Intelligence: TJ Sullivan takes in the L.A. Auto Show, now raised in prominence with Detroit's show fading.

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George Clooney is just a Valley guy

11:31 AM Fri | The actor gives CBS' "Person to Person" a tour of his Studio City home of 20 years. He moved to Los Angeles almost ten years before; his dad Nick Clooney...

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Anyone remember that George W. Bush initiated the auto bailout?

12:48 PM Fri | The Republican candidates keep insisting it was the work of that socialist Obama.

12:26 PM Fri | California coffers not filling up that quickly

11:53 AM Fri | Is the McMansion craze fading?

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