In our latest post hidden from the rest of the internet, join us at a secret location in South L.A.'s Plains of Id, where giant psychedelic fungi glow…
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We braved the rats and spiders to sleuth out 118 years of Los Angeles history and lived to tell the tale!
This investigation is published on the 29th anniversary of Charles Bukowski's death. In 2007, while writing our tour of Bukowski's Los Angeles, we…
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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…
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Like Taix, the Dresden Room is a coral reef, filled with little darting creatures of the night, all sharing the gentle currents of a space made of music…
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The Eagle Tree has fallenWatch now (1 min) | a landmark of old California no longer stands tall
Gentle reader, Steps away from the west wall of Paramount Studios in Hollywood, a lovely bungalow court sits vacant and lonely behind its picket fence…
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Two days ago, the Netflix documentary series that we filmed a year ago this week debuted, and today
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East LA's Unique Theatre - 4/19/2022: Landmarked at noon and on fire at midnightWatch 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…
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The Cranky Preservationist in Hotel Cecil Whitewash BluesWatch now (13 min) | Architectural historian Nathan Marsak loves Los Angeles, and hates to see important buildings neglected and abused, whether by…
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For our latest post that’s hidden from the rest of the internet, we want to take you on a rare tour inside Pasadena’s St. Luke Hospital, an…
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Gentle reader, Greetings from your friendly historic Los Angeles sightseeing tour company, now offering digital programming until we can again organize…