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Learn all about The Players, the Old Hollywood funplex where the stars partied and which connected to the Chateau Marmont via a secret underground tunnel.

It's better than Leimert Park for the alternative, I suppose.

See that right there, just southeast of Hollywood? Yep, "Colegrove." Like so many would-bes that come to SoCal today, one was destined for stardom, while the other was doomed to obscurity.

She was a brunette bombshell, a diabolical dame, a femme fatale with a sordid past and unsavory ties to Los Angeles' criminal underworld. They called her "Bloody Babs." And her trial, conviction and execution shaped modern Californian attitudes towards women and the law.

Looking at L.A.'s many pre-WWII neighborhoods, it's easy to forget that many of them were created as pre-planned subdivisions, as manufactured as today's much-maligned suburban gated communities. We'd like to think of old charming blocks of bungalows and small businesses as having grown organically, with each new phase of development based on the notion of supply and demand, but most often than not, they have been results of careful planning.

KCET Departures gives the history behind Leimert Park -- which, yes, was a pre-planned community -- as well as the man for which it's named.

Did you know that Los Angeles County's first bike path was completed all the way back in 1900? In Santa Monica? L.A. as Subject gives you the history of this cycling first.