go ahead make my day

Of course, the other thing that obsesses me is LA history, so my fetishes are getting their fill today. LA Observed reports on a "new toy for LA buffs": UCLA's Department of Special Collections has unveiled a new website featuring 5700 photos from 1920-1990 through which you can browse and search (!). Some of the photos have not been seen since their use in various newspapers, like this image from the Daily News of "Laura, Ruth, and Lillian Wozniuk with 'Phil Kerr's Gospel Songs' book at tent revival in Los Angeles, Calif., 1949"...

...or this image of Jehovah's Witnesses being baptized at Dodger Stadium in 1971.