The dingbat, those rectangular houses built on stilts, are hideous to some but beautiful to others who want to preserve that post-war slice of L.A. life and architecture Some architecture creates ...

Boxy, dingbat-style apartments dot the San Fernando Valley, the understated architectural design evoking the region’s 1950s post-war boom. But now the Valley’s stock of dingbats is getting a face-lift ...

The dingbat apartment building: it ought to be on the Los Angeles crest, right next to a palm tree and a plastic surgery-enhanced Westsider. For its Dingbat 2.0 competition, the Los Angeles Forum for ...

Before Apple’s LaserWriter Plus printer came along, the only exposure the general public would have had to the word “dingbat” was Archie Bunker’s use of it to insult his wife, Edith in the 1970s ...

"The dingbat typifies Los Angeles apartment building architecture at its worst," California historian Leonard Pitto once declared. But the simple, boxy apartment buildings have become as beloved as ...

The adventures of Superman have been told in many forms since the superhero and his alter ego reporter Clark Kent were first introduced in 1938, from Saturday morning movie serials to lightly serious ...