"In all the world, there neither was nor would ever be another place like this City of the Angels," #CareyMcWilliams.

Spent the last 4 days at @urbanhistorya.bsky.social's conference at the historic Biltmore Hotel. Still processing all the wonderful Los Angeles history research shared @ #UHA2025LA.

Robert Towne, Oscar-winning screenwriting icon behind 'Chinatown,' dies at 89 Robert Towne, the screenwriting icon who won an Academy Award for “Chinatown,” has died. He was 89.

The photos in West Magazine "reminded me there was still time to preserve much of the city's past on film, just as #CareyMcWilliams had shown me that it was my past as well," Robert Towne (Writing Los Angeles: vromansbookstore.com/book/9781931...).

RIP #RobertTowne! www.latimes.com/entertainmen...