by Kim Cooper | Jan 9, 2022 | The Esotouric Blog
There’s something wonderful happening on “The Nickel,” the portion of Fifth Street that connects the gritty Skid Row neighborhood of Downtown Los Angeles with the business district to the West: the early 20th century residency hotels whose owners...
by Kim Cooper | Jan 9, 2022 | The Esotouric Blog
75 years ago today, a 22-year-old homeless woman named Beth Short went missing in Downtown Los Angeles. She would become famous in death as the Black Dahlia, a nickname she’d briefly worn in life. In 2005, we launched a true crime blog called the 1947project,...
by Kim Cooper | Dec 28, 2021 | The Esotouric Blog
(This post appeared in a slightly different form in our newsletter.) We were approached months ago by good friends of the cloistered Dominican nuns who live at The Monastery of the Angels with whispered worries that after being hard hit by the pandemic, the nearly...
by Kim Cooper | Dec 10, 2021 | The Esotouric Blog
In October, we shared the thrilling news that the almost completely empty Barclay Hotel had been sold to the Healthy Housing Foundation and would be immediately returned to use as affordable housing, instead of being converted into a boutique hotel at some unspecified...
by Kim Cooper | Nov 3, 2021 | The Esotouric Blog
Update, January 12, 2022: for instructions on filing a complaint about the ongoing destruction of the Pig ‘N Whistle, click here. On October 23, photos first circulated on social media showing workers on top of the awning of the historic Pig ‘n Whistle...
