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Mark Lacter funeral services

2:07 PM Sat | The funeral for Mark Lacter will be held Sunday, Nov. 24 at 12 noon at Hillside Memorial Park, 6001 W. Centinela Avenue, Los Angeles 90045. Reception to follow.

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Google taking over LA's deadest shopping mall Westside Pavilion is putting the final stores out of their misery and converting the mall to offices. Bimini Baths in 1927 Nice photo of the long-gone bathhouse and swimming facility from the Auto Club of Southern California archives. Charles Manson dies 48 years after the murders that changed LA "Many people I know in Los Angeles believed the '60s ended abruptly on Aug. 9, 1969," Joan Didion wrote of the most notorious multiple murders in Los Angeles history. The Media Los Angeles TV news crews await the speeches at press event inside the construction site for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Museum. Tronc Tower? LA Times may move to downtown skyscraper* Report of a lease deal says the Times will have naming rights to the 62-story Aon Center on Wilshire Boulevard. The Times says it has not signed a lease. Photos from inside Hollyhock House today In honor of Frank Lloyd Wright's birthday, photos are allowed this weekend in his only home project in LA that is open to the public. Archives: Architecture \| Planning \| Geography \| History \| Infrastructure
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