Sitemap - 2021 - News from Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles

On Chicago Street in Boyle Heights, if you stand very still and wish very hard, it's still 1895

Our Holiday Gift To You: A Trip In A Time Machine

This Holiday Season, We're Doing What We Can To Preserve The Incongruous Cloister of Nuns Below the Hollywood Sign (and a giant Chili Bowl)

Know Your Los Angeles County Poor Farm / Rancho Los Amigos (1888-?) webinar announced

It's all happening in Boyle Heights, with jelly donuts for everyone

In which we visit a Rosicrucian healing temple high above Oceanside, only to get goosed by a ghost

The Shame of the Ricky Jay Collection Sotheby's Auction

Thursday: Your chance to save one of the lost creeks of Los Angeles, and landmark a significant Japanese-American home

"Learning from Boyle Heights / Saving Los Angeles" webinar announced

The Barclay, the Oldest Continuously Operating Hotel in the City of Los Angeles Has Secrets Still To Keep... and new owners who want to put her to good use

The Los Angeles Times of El Segundo is asleep at the switch, but corruption doesn't rest

As darkness falls over Los Angeles, join us at 8pm in the neon glow

Kiss a YIMBY / Save a Landmark

Dim the lights of Union Station and old Skid Row, for Downtown Los Angeles has lost two lions

Visiting time capsule mansions of Redlands, in the footsteps of Leo Politi

Tomorrow, Skid Row will glow with opalescent stained glass rainbows, as the King Edward Hotel gets his awning back

The only thing cooler than a Los Angeles landmark is a tiny one you can hold in your hands and cuddle

Twelve reasons we love Greenblatt's, which is closing today at 8pm after 95 years.

As the Fairfax Theatre is added to the National Register, there's hope for the almost demolished Kuromi-Ito house and springs

Tabletop Treasures and the Ghosts of Los Angeles Past

What's Happening with Esotouric Tours, Anyway?

Remembering Pat Adler, History Detective: she sleuthed the mean streets of 1960s Los Angeles, in search of likely landmarks and treasures soon to be demolished

Do you ever think that loving Los Angeles is like staying in an abusive relationship, hoping they'll change?

Just when we try to go on hiatus... BOOM! The preservation Bat Signal calls on us to help save the world's biggest Chili Bowl

Let's Talk Taix: The Most Interesting Historic Preservation Battle in a Generation

Join us for the LAST Saturday afternoon pandemic series webinar: The Treasures and Tragedies of Elysian Park

Q: When is a Los Angeles landmark just a pile of junk? A: When City Hall intervenes for their developer pals... but it's not too late for Taix!

Slip Into Hall of Waters, a ragged Mayan Art Deco marvel awaiting its next act

In memory of William J. Kirkpatrick, who came to see the 1932 Olympics, and died in a doorway on Vermont Avenue

Meet us (virtually) at noon tomorrow at 4th & Main Streets and the past will come alive

A How To Guide for Helping To Save Historic Buildings in Los Angeles (or at least giving them a fighting chance)

As Life in Los Angeles Comes Back Into Focus... (sniff) We love you, man!

All Aboard the Historic Preservation and Neighborhood Council Hearing Wagon (and plug your ears, because it's gonna to get loud)

Felix the Cat, the wonderful, wonderful cat, doesn't live here anymore

We're Not Back in the Tour Business Just Yet, So Tune In As We Explore the Secrets of Los Angeles, Virtually

Making Zines, Stalking Tom Waits and Reactivating Old L.A. Movie Theaters for Fun and... Profit?

Peep Inside a 1930s Movie Theater Manager's Promotional Scrapbook

We could listen to people who care about Los Angeles all day long... but City Hall won't let us.

Just When We Think We Know Los Angeles, She Throws Us A New, Noir Curve Ball.

Inside this wee witchy East L.A. storybook cottage, Hansel and Gretel got inked, not eaten

Bunker Hill is gone! There's nothing left at all... or is there?

Broom Closets Aren't Supposed To Haunt Your Dreams

A Hidden Victorian Elevator Cage With A Bloodthirsty Past

The Hotel Cecil is a crime scene, but not the way you think it is.

New writing inspired by Esotouric excursions, and the dark side of the West Side is calling you

Pushing Back on Pershing Square

Ever wonder who to thank that your favorite Los Angeles landmark is still here?

Help us preserve the Los Angeles Times buildings from a political machine run amok

The Dead Know Things That The Living Can Only Dream Of...

The Most Disturbing Item We Ever Discovered While Doing Research at The Huntington Library

A Grocery Store Like No Other: Crawford's Markets Fed The San Gabriel Valley... and blew its collective mind

Shhhh... We're Going on a Silent Cinema Safari and You're Invited To Come Along!