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 ...

According to Bloomberg, more than 700,000 dingbats went up all across LA County during that decade and through the 1960s, and tens of thousands of young families and couples moved in. Grant says ...

In the small headline to James Verini’s “Quintessentially L.A.” (Oct. 23) about Clive Piercy’s book of photography “Pretty Vacant: The Los Angeles Dingbat Observed,” it reads: “It ...

Currently, dingbats that have been better kept up, or renovated, are about on par with regular apartment rents--here's one in Santa Monica for $1950/mo, and another in West L.A. for $1850 (both 1 ...

Los Angeles’ “dingbat” apartments are a kitschy piece of the past. Shaped by the car culture, dingbats are going obsolete due to earthquake risk.

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 ...

Unlike some dingbats fonts, every one of the “bats” in Trick or Treat 2.0 is executed in Jess Latham’s unique style, so your look will remain consistent regardless of how many different ...