The L.A. Times has a blog that offers nuggets of Los Angeles history, usually in the form of scans of old newspaper clippings. There's lots of good stuff there including a look at how the Times comic strip page looked in January of '59 and news stories on the deaths of Raymond Chandler, Ernie Kovacs and Lou Costello. You might also like to read about how Dalton Trumbo revealed he'd written under a pen name while blacklisted and how Mary Astor admitted to her affair with playwright George S. Kaufman. Have a look around.