Commercial Archaeology
Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields
The Bay Area’s Lost Streetcars
The Center for Land Use Interpretation
Pacific Coast Architecture Database
Society for Commercial Archaeology
Los Angeles, Bay Area, and California History
Alfred Twu’s Cultural Tour of Berkeley
Alison Martino’s “Vintage Los Angeles”
Anton Wagner photographs of Los Angeles, 1932-33
Avenue to the Sky – Lake Avenue, Pasadena
California Digital Newspaper Collection
California Historical Society Digital Library
A Digital History of Mount Lowe
Folklore – The Original Macintosh
LA County Library Digital Collections
A Loafer’s Guide to the U.C. Berkeley Campus
Los Angeles County Museum on Fire
Los Angeles Online Building Records
Los Angeles Public Library: City Directories
Lukas Schwab’s Blog: Hearst Hall · Hearst Hall: Continued Reading · Collected Memories of Evans Hall
Mount Lowe Preservation Society Inc.
The Novelty Architecture of Los Angeles
Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society
Pasadena Public Art Collection
TESSA: Digital Collections of the Los Angeles Public Library
UC Berkeley Campus Historic Resources Survey (1978)
The Underappreciated Legacy of Historic Los Angeles
12 Sunsets: Exploring Ed Ruscha’s Archive
Theme Parks
LA’s strange and wonderful lost amusement parks, mapped
Disney Theme Parks
Chronology of Disneyland Theme Park
Disneyland Resort Daily – Disneyland Maps
Disneyland Resort Music Compendium
Disneyland: 50 Years of Souvenirs and Beyond
History of Disney Theme Parks in Documents
Passport to Dreams Old and New
Sounds of the Disneyland Resort
Unofficial Maps of the Walt Disney World Resort
Vacationland Magazine Archives
Miscellaneous Websites
Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group
The Museum of Jurassic Technology
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Telephone EXchange Name Project
A Nowhere-Near-Comprehensive List of Books About Commercial Archaeology, Old Buildings, and Local History
The Well-Built Elephant and Other Roadside Attractions. J. J. C. Andrews, Congdon & Weed, 1984.
Building a Dream: The Art of Disney Architecture. Beth Dunlop, Harry N. Abrams, 1996.
Photographic Guide to the University of California, Berkeley. Benjamin B. Ehrich, Pacific Books, 1969.
California Crazy: Roadside Vernacular Architecture. Jim Heimann and Rip Georges, Chronicle Books, 1980.
California Crazy & Beyond: Roadside Vernacular Architecture. Jim Heimann, Chronicle Books, 2001.
California Crazy: American Pop Architecture. Jim Heimann, Taschen, 2021.
The Colossus of Roads: Myth and Symbol Along the American Highway. Karal Ann Marling, University of Minnesota Press, 1984.
Boundless Realm: Deep Explorations Inside Disney’s Haunted Mansion. Foxx Nolte, Inklingwood Press, 2020.
San Francisco Bay Area … Today. Carla C. Sobala, Urban Land Institute, 1973.
Images of Modern America: California’s Great America. Steven W. Wilson, Arcadia Publishing, 2014.