Together, Hanna and Barbera were pioneers who forged the way for shows like today's The Simpsons and South Park.

The defenders of Los Angeles modernism seem to have won one. After a long struggle, the former Hanna-Barbera Studios buildings in the Cahuenga Pass appear to be safe from the wrecker’s ball at last.

The City Council approved a plan that will preserve all three of the buildings that once comprised the historic Hanna-Barbera animation ... up with a system and a style of animation that would ...