Sitemap - 2022 - News from Esotouric's Secret Los Angeles

Can this lovely 100-year-old bungalow court near Paramount Studios be saved?

Introducing Esotouric's Deep Los Angeles History Channel

A Holiday Wreath of Lab Grown (Nearly) Landmarked Olympic Oak For You

The Kindness of Section 14 & the Cruelty of Redevelopment

Did You Know That There's A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd... that you can explore in 3-D while listening to Lana Del Rey's new song about Jergins Tunnel in Long Beach?

New: Esotouric's Deep Los Angeles History Video Channel & Holiday Gifts for L.A. Lovers

An Angels Flight Love Story

As Kevin de Leon Stinks Around for the Holidays, Our Modest Proposal to Clear CD-14's Stench from L.A. City Hall

About that cake...

Planning to join us Saturday for Richard's birthday tour of Highland Park? We'd love to know that before we order the cake by 4pm today!

Farewell to Terry Ellsworth, the True Soul of the Arts District

Questions for Los Angeles County as the 19th century Potter's Field Cemetery is redeveloped

A visit to the shuttered, endangered William S. Hart house museum and December tours including Bunker Hill Noir

Announcing Richard's birthday tour: Highland Park Arroyo Time Travel Trip

A Scary Clown and His Biggest Fan Step Onto A Cloud... and a disgraced politician offers a masterclass in arrogance

In search of the Hill Street Sand Man and other grains of lost Los Angeles lore

Free Friday evening historic preservation webinar: Save Old Trapper’s Lodge, A California State Landmark

Esotouric's L.A. Public Corruption tour

Corrected Zoom info for today's Cultural Heritage Commission hearing

The treasures of Los Angeles are yours to save

Announcing fall tours: Alvarado Terrace & South Bonnie Brae Tract, Angelino Heights & Carroll Avenue, plus Halloween at Evergreen Cemetery and a free El Pino webinar tonight

Farewell to the 1888 Bunya Pine tree at Rancho Los Amigos, chopped down yesterday morning

Preservation news from Eagle Rock's Route 66 Standard Station and Cornelius Johnson's Olympic Oak

Announcing two new walking tours: Franklin Village Old Hollywood & Westlake Park Time Travel Trip

New preservation campaign: Save Eagle Rock’s Route 66 Standard Service Station

Hollywood's Monastery of the Angels no longer exists

Announcing the Human Sacrifice true crime tour & free Bunker Hill tree history webinar, plus updated mask policy

The Huntington Gardens throws a lifeline to Cornelius Johnson's struggling Olympic oak

Echo Park Community De-Fence Action... The Morning After

Exploring St. Luke Hospital, abandoned art deco jewel of Northeast Pasadena

Join us this Tuesday for "Will Cornelius Johnson’s Olympic Oak live long enough to become a Los Angeles landmark?" (Free L.A. Preservation Talk #2)

Rancho Los Amigos Preservation / Demolition Status Report (July 2022)

Scoop: What the hell is happening at the Hotel Cecil?

Scoop: Downtown L.A.'s Broadway Trade Center to be boarded up before bankruptcy auction

With cowboy star William S. Hart's will under attack, clues point to why Santa Clarita wants to secede from L.A. County... plus Hollywood's nuns depart, Broadway tour announced & more

A plea to honor the last will and testament of William S. Hart and protect his house museum

Farewell to the Farting Muffler Shop, an East Los Angeles folk art landmark gone like the wind

Join us this Thursday for The Bizarre B’nai B’rith Lodge Demolition Threat (Free L.A. Preservation Talk #1)

Saturday morning in Boyle Heights we'll summon forgotten Evergreen Cemetery lore

Scoop: Relevant Group has gutted the Morrison Hotel... and it's weird

Esotouric Returns! Announcing Four All-New Los Angeles Cultural History Walking Tours

In Search of... the UFO Abduction Mushrooms of South Los Angeles. Plus: walking tours coming soon!

Visiting All Our Friends at L.A.'s Bureau of Street Lighting... Vermonica, Air Raid Siren No. 184 and the Glendale-Hyperion Bridge Lamps

Bombshell public records exposed in our quest to preserve the Old Trapper's Lodge folk art environment at Pierce College

Karen Bass and the Mysteriously Migrating Marvin Gaye Post Office

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?

If a 1950s air raid siren falls in South Los Angeles, will anybody come and get it?

The Artist's Family Says: Please Help Save Old Trapper's Lodge, John Ehn's California Landmark Folk Art Environment

Preservation Alert: Help Save the Morrison Hotel from Partial Demolition

East LA's Unique Theatre - 4/19/2022: Landmarked at noon and on fire at midnight

The Cranky Preservationist in Hotel Cecil Whitewash Blues

An update on Compton's fallen Eagle Tree

The Eagle Tree has fallen

Raymond & Cissy Chandler in the 1950 census

Exploring the 1904 Leland Hotel, Skid Row's ghost building that's coming back from the dead

Discussion Thread: A Legacy Business Program for Los Angeles?

In Loving Memory of A Giant Chili Bowl, Sacrificed On The Altar of Civic Corruption

The Ghost of Harry Bergman's Roadside Museum on Highway 371

The Wreckers Come For The Giant Chili Bowl, But They Can't Demolish L.A.'s Weird, Sweet, Creative Soul

New Video: Cranky Preservationist Nathan Marsak loves the giant Chili Bowl... and we do, too!

A Celebration of Life for Marty Roberts of Marty & Elayne is Sunday at 7pm

For Marty & Elayne, with love and rage

It’s Up To Angelenos To Save Los Angeles: Here’s How webinar announced

Chasing out the haunts in the Skid Row ghost town, with living souls and a new coat of paint

Looking Back on a Mighty Weird Year