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I thought you'd like this article from the LA Times on the Page Museum. La Brea tar pits celebrate a century of stink, ooze and amazement The La Brea tar pits are marking 100 years of digging history out of the muck. Open the link below to view article. http://fw.to/oYsJT9W

I thought you'd like this recent article from the LA Times: High school student found youngest, most complete crested dinosaur fossil It was an unlikely encounter in the middle of the desert. Kevin Terris was a high school senior from a boarding school in Claremont, Calif., with dreams of a paleontology career. Joe was a toddler stuck under a rock. For 75 million years.  Click on link below to view. http://fw.to/sstNvPm

Before I post the pictures taken on the Union Station field trip, there were three articles relating to our Union Station field trip.  The first article appeared in the Oct 21, 2013 LA Times on a unique performance that initially premiered a couple of hours after our LA Conservancy tour of Union Station ended.    We met one of the performers who told us about the Invisible Cities performance noted below.  The last article appeared in the LA Times on May 3, 2014: The remarkable vintage photographs of Union Station's opening in 1939 show the streets and sidewalks around the new building packed with a huge and expectant crowd. Those of the interior reveal a vast, high-ceilinged waiting room, with impeccably dressed passengers sitting not on hard wooden benches but in individually upholstered lounge chairs. Do not be fooled by these pictures. While it is easy to think that they depict some Golden Age of rail travel in Los Angeles, the truth is that the Golden Age of rail tra