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Noir Los Angeles is thrilling...
but not if you have to live in it!
May 6, 2020
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The Hotel Cecil is a crime scene, but not the way you think it is.
Two days ago, the Netflix documentary series that we filmed a year ago this week debuted, and today
Feb 13, 2021
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In memory of William J. Kirkpatrick, who came to see the 1932 Olympics, and died in a doorway on Vermont Avenue
The 1932 LAPD crime scene photograph below is circulating online again, as it does periodically, with people sharing it commenting on the beautiful composition and noir details. We hate it.
May 13, 2021
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Let's Talk Taix: The Most Interesting Historic Preservation Battle in a Generation
Mitch O'Farrell's record breaks the record player, and everyone who cares about Los Angeles history needs to pay close attention. Today Taix, tomorrow... the Bradbury Building?
Jun 7, 2021
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The Hotel Cecil is a crime scene, but not the way you think it is.
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On Chicago Street in Boyle Heights, if you stand very still and wish very hard, it's still 1895
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Exploring the 1904 Leland Hotel, Skid Row's ghost building that's coming back from the dead
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The Eagle Tree has fallen
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East LA's Unique Theatre - 4/19/2022: Landmarked at noon and on fire at midnight
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For Marty & Elayne, with love and rage
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Bombshell public records exposed in our quest to preserve the Old Trapper's Lodge folk art environment at Pierce College
Why spend $30,000 for a professional opinion on how to safely move these fragile sculptures, then throw 'em into the back of a truck?
May 23
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Karen Bass and the Mysteriously Migrating Marvin Gaye Post Office
or a funny thing happened to H.R. 1496 on the way to the President's desk. How did this soulful bill that was making West Adams proud get sucked into…
May 17
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Today we're asking the County Supervisors to save one of the oldest trees in Los Angeles, and launching a campaign to buy Monastery of the Angels... so how's your Friday going?
One of Los Angeles County's oldest trees was just struck by lightning and its leaves turned brown. But a tree pathologist's report says it isn't dead…
May 14
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If a 1950s air raid siren falls in South Los Angeles, will anybody come and get it?
Watch now (14 min) | Obsolete infrastructure can be beautiful in its decay, but not when it fails, spilling potentially deadly hunks of steel onto…
May 5
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The Artist's Family Says: Please Help Save Old Trapper's Lodge, John Ehn's California Landmark Folk Art Environment
Gentle reader, Since February, we have been advocating for Old Trapper’s Lodge, a California State Landmark folk art environment that since 1988 has…
Apr 28
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Preservation Alert: Help Save the Morrison Hotel from Partial Demolition
Gentle reader, Partial demolition for the landmark Morrison Hotel (Morgan, Walls and Morgan, 1914)? That’s the plan of Relevant Group, the developer…
Apr 25
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East LA's Unique Theatre - 4/19/2022: Landmarked at noon and on fire at midnight
Watch now (2 min) | Gentle reader, As if this week hadn’t been enough of a preservation roller coaster—and as more comes out, the Hotel Cecil…
Apr 20
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The Cranky Preservationist in Hotel Cecil Whitewash Blues
Watch now (13 min) | Architectural historian Nathan Marsak loves Los Angeles, and hates to see important buildings neglected and abused, whether by…
Apr 19
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The Hotel Cecil is a crime scene, but not the way you think it is.
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On Chicago Street in Boyle Heights, if you stand very still and wish very hard, it's still 1895
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Exploring the 1904 Leland Hotel, Skid Row's ghost building that's coming back from the dead
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The Eagle Tree has fallen
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East LA's Unique Theatre - 4/19/2022: Landmarked at noon and on fire at midnight
15
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For Marty & Elayne, with love and rage
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