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 ...

A before and after image of a retrofitted Dingbat building. [Photo: courtesy Paul Jesman] Seismic safety rules passed in 2015 now require retrofits of multistory buildings with what the city’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

I first learnt the word ‘dingbat’ when I became editor of the weekly eight-page Sunday newspaper, The Speaking Tree, published by The Times of India. The little coloured cube or box symbol ...