Articles by Scott Gold

Paul Emerson stepped under the warm light of a chandelier hanging in Emerson & Farrar, his jewelry shop in downtown Redlands. Read more

In 1957, Jimmy Steward graduated from high school in El Dorado, Ark., which had piney woods and pretty promenades left over from an oil boom, but no jobs to speak of. Read more

To those who live in the hills above Eagle Rock – iconoclasts and eccentrics, many of them artists and “day sleepers” and people who drop Samuel Beckett lines casually into conversation – the grassy lot at the end of the main drag was never much of a mystery. Read more

It’s another Friday night at the Fullerton train station, which is full of the usual types: commuters with briefcases, people sprinting over a bridge because they found themselves on the wrong side of the tracks, families struggling with suitcases. Read more

Daniel, 15, lives on a tree-lined street at the northern tip of the San Fernando Valley. Read more

The tribute reads like something that might be written for a rock star who died too soon: “We will never forget you. Read more

There was spaghetti on the stove at Fire Station 96 when the loudspeaker crackled. Read more

Arnie Peterson’s evening train, the Metrolink 111, banked to the left, toward the coast. Read more

In the southern tip of Los Angeles, stashed behind railroad cars and fuel depots, is a pillbox of a community center called Mahar House. Read more