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SUMMARY:Save Old Trapper’s Lodge\, A California State Landmark
DESCRIPTION:Join Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, for the fifth in an occasional series of free webinars exploring timely historic preservation issues and how YOU can get involved. \nTo sign up for this free webinar\, enter your name and email address and click the “REGISTER” button BELOW. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \n\nIn a remote section of the campus of Pierce College in the San Fernando Valley\, there is a remarkable and little known folk art environment\, Old Trapper’s Lodge (California State Landmark 939.5)—but it might not be there for much longer. \nDuring the pandemic lockdown\, while the campus was closed to visitors\, some members of the Pierce community hatched a secretive plan to brand the landmark as too racist to remain on campus. Their scheme was based on a flawed and superficial interpretation\, and ignored the fact that the sculptures represent artist John Ehn’s own Native American family members. \nThen\, Los Angeles Community College District administrators spent nearly $30\,000 in public funds on a professional art appraisal and report\, which described in minute detail how Pierce College should safely pack up and move the delicate sculptures to a new home. \nBut the appraisal and report was never shared with the public. Instead\, LACCD voted to dispose of Old Trapper’s Lodge under the deliberately deceptive phrasing\, “Approve Donation of Surplus Property at Pierce College.” Then they let an amateur crew associated with Valley Relics Museum dig up the Boot Hill Cemetery portion of the landmark and cart it off in the back of a pick up truck. \nAnd it was after seeing the small sculptures treated like yard waste that artist John Ehn’s family said “Enough!” \nYou can read much more about the situation at Old Trapper’s Lodge on our preservation campaign advocacy webpage\, including links to all the important documents. \nNext week\, Pierce College has threatened to dispose of Old Trapper’s Lodge if the Ehn Family doesn’t come and personally collect the huge and heavy sculptures. \nWe join the Ehn Family in asking Pierce College to stop making threats\, and do what it should have done in the beginning: secure the artwork\, issue a public RFP (Request For Proposals) to find a suitable new home for Old Trapper’s Lodge\, and to work with that new home on a safe and appropriate art transit plan\, to ensure this California State Landmark can be preserved and enjoyed for generations to come. \nOur guests for this special webinar are John Ehn’s grand-daughter Marsha Klopfenstein and great-granddaughter Kristen Cassidy. In an original short film produced by preservation storyteller Damian Sullivan\, you’ll tag along as Marsha and Kristen pay their first visit to Old Trapper’s Lodge since the Boot Hill Cemetery sculptures were brutally dug out of the ground\, to reconnect with the sculptures that represent their beloved family members\, share stories of grandfather John Ehn’s creativity and larger than life personality\, and to express their profound concerns about how poorly Pierce College is treating the landmark\, the community and their family. \nThen we’ll take your questions about Old Trapper’s Lodge\, how it was saved from demolition in the 1980s\, and the current campaign to protect it\, and what we all hope will happen next. \nThis webinar is an illustrated lecture that will bring the history and future of Old Trapper’s Lodge to life\, while inspiring you to look around your own community for ways you can help to keep old places around with fresh new uses. And you’ll find the look of an Esotouric webinar is a little different than your standard dry Zoom session\, with lively interactive graphics courtesy of the mmhmm app. So tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious. Can’t join in when the webinar is happening? You can tune in later\, though you’ll miss the opportunity to ask questions in the chat. \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \n\n\nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one another on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging even deeper into the secret heart of the city they love.\n \nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion.
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SUMMARY:Will Cornelius Johnson’s Olympic Oak live long enough to become a Los Angeles landmark?
DESCRIPTION:This webinar has already aired live\, but you can still watch the recording. To sign up for this free webinar\, enter your name and email address and click the “VIEW” button BELOW. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \n\nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, for the second in an occasional series of free webinars exploring timely historic preservation issues and how YOU can get involved. \nOur guest is distinguished horticulturist Dr. Donald R. Hodel. \nWhen Dr. Hodel published “Exceptional Trees of Los Angeles” (1988)\, he wasn’t aware of the oak sapling presented to Olympic gold medalist Cornelius Johnson at the 1936 Berlin Games\, which has grown to maturity behind his parents’ modest West Adams bungalow. If he had been\, it would certainly have been included. \nNow\, the Olympic Oak is in the race of its life—owned by a developer who wants to demolish the house and chop down the tree\, but also under consideration as a protected city landmark. \nThe campaign to preserve Cornelius Johnson’s oak and family home has attracted local and national attention\, with a feature story in the New York Times. The Cultural Heritage Commission has been supportive. But even a series of yes votes by the CHC\, PLUM Committee and City Council may not be enough to save Cornelius Johnson’s Olympic Oak. \nIn this webinar\, we’ll go down to the vacant Johnson home at 1156 South Hobart\, just north of Pico Boulevard\, to do an endangered tree status check from over the fence. You’ll hear Dr. Hodel’s expert opinion on the grim state of this historic tree\, and what needs to happen immediately if it’s going to live long enough to be named a city landmark. \nLearn more about this special tree and Dr. Hodel’s prescription to save it. \nThen we’ll take your questions about the landmarking process and the special problems and opportunities posed when a living piece of cultural history suffers from potentially fatal neglect. This is an opportunity for the City to step up and take an active role in protecting this threatened (almost) landmark\, before it’s too late. \nWatch this short webinar when it airs at 7pm on August 2 (or later\, on demand)\, then tune in and call in on August 4 at 10am\, when the Cultural Heritage Commission meets to vote on landmarking the Johnson Oak and family home. We’re asking people who care about this piece of Los Angeles and Olympic history to help amplify Dr. Hodel’s prescription for saving this beautiful tree\, through public comment and by spreading the word. \nThis webinar is an illustrated lecture that will bring the history and future of this landmark structure to life\, while inspiring you to look around your own community for ways you can help to keep old places around with fresh new uses. And you’ll find the look of an Esotouric webinar is a little different than your standard dry Zoom session\, with lively interactive graphics courtesy of the mmhmm app. So tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious. Can’t join in when the webinar is happening? You can tune in later\, though you’ll miss the opportunity to ask questions in the chat. \nSo tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious. Can’t join in when the webinar is happening? You can tune in later\, though you’ll miss the opportunity to ask questions in the chat. \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \n\nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one another on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging even deeper into the secret heart of the city they love.\n \nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion.
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SUMMARY:The Bizarre B’nai B’rith Lodge Demolition Threat (Free L.A. Preservation Talk #1)
DESCRIPTION:This webinar has already aired live\, but you can still watch the recording. To sign up for this free webinar\, enter your name and email address and click the “Register” button BELOW. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \n\n\n\nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, for the first in an occasional series of free live webinars exploring timely historic preservation issues and how you can get involved. \nOur guests for this program are two of the southland’s most dedicated independent scholars and historic preservation activists: Nathan Marsak (aka The Cranky Preservationist) and Steven Luftman (Art Deco Society of Los Angeles). \nNathan and Steven will share the strange tale of the B’nai B’rith Lodge (S. Tilden Norton\, 1923-24) at 846 South Union Avenue\, a beautiful and historic building that the city of Los Angeles’ Office of Historic Resources refuses to even consider making a landmark… after City Planner Ken Bernstein personally solicited private citizens to prepare and submit a landmarking nomination! \nSteven wrote this nomination which is presently stuck in City Hall limbo\, and you can read it HERE. \nThis program features the debut of a new Cranky Preservationist video\, introducing you to the history of the B’nai B’rith Lodge (from Jewish community center to union hall to Korean church) and exploring its time capsule neighborhood which is almost entirely owned by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. The Cranky Preservationist will introduce you to B’nai B’rith and the other significant buildings on this quiet block in the Pico Union District\, and advocate that property owner Catholic Charities take the green and fiscally responsible path of adaptively reusing the historic building\, while expanding onto its enormous surface parking lot. \nDuring the live conversation to follow\, Steven Luftman will describe how he came to take on the project of researching the layered history of B’nai B’rith at city request\, and what he learned about the building and the many fascinating characters who have used it over a century. \nAnd we’ll explore the city’s bizarre new tune: first it asked people to landmark the building\, then it claims that due to a poorly written and often misunderstood set of State and Federal laws\, owner Catholic Charities just has to say “we’re against it!” and the landmark documents can’t be accepted. \nWe think B’nai B’rith Lodge is a great building worth saving\, that it’s cheaper and greener to preserve it than to demolish it\, and that the city is wrong about the law. And we think Steven’s landmarking nomination deserves better than to be filed away unseen forever in a Planning Department file cabinet. \nSo let’s talk about it—and ask the city to reconsider\, and let the B’nai B’rith Lodge landmark nomination be heard! \nABOUT OUR GUESTS: \n• STEVEN LUFTMAN (Art Deco Society of Los Angeles). Preservationist and community activist Steve will talk about his successful campaign to designate the derelict Fairfax Theatre as a protected national and local monument\, how Historic Preservation Overlay Zones can preserve affordable housing and good buildings\, and the redevelopment threats facing the Carthay Circle community. \n• NATHAN MARSAK (R.I.P Los Angeles / The Cranky Preservationist). Half architectural historian\, half performance artist\, Nathan wields his acid wit to shine a light on the lies of the urban density movement\, contrasting dense\, green\, attractive historic structures with the upzoned file cabinets for humans that too often replace them. He’ll highlight some of his favorite neighborhoods and the multi-family housing threatened by the wrecking ball\, and remind us that while we can’t go back in time and save Bunker Hill\, it’s not too late for Pico-Union. \nThis webinar is an illustrated lecture that will bring the history and future of this landmark structureto life\, while inspiring you to look around your own community for ways you can help to keep old places around with fresh new uses. And you’ll find the look of an Esotouric webinar is a little different than your standard dry Zoom session\, with lively interactive graphics courtesy of the mmhmm app. So tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious. Can’t join in when the webinar is happening? You can tune in later\, though you’ll miss the opportunity to ask questions in the chat. \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \n\nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one another on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging even deeper into the secret heart of the city they love.\n \nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion.
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SUMMARY:It’s Up To Angelenos To Save Los Angeles: Here’s How
DESCRIPTION:Join Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, for an immersive cultural history webinar that admits things are pretty screwed up in Los Angeles—but refuses to accept that it has to be that way.  \nOur guests for this program are some of the Southland’s most passionate\, informed and dedicated citizen-activists and historians\, who look at old buildings and see a fresh canvas where Angelenos can live\, work\, create\, feast and connect. From San Pedro to Hollywood\, Watts to Downtown L.A.\, Boyle Heights to Pico-Union\, The Fairfax District to Los Feliz\, you’ll learn about fascinating landmarks that are taking on a new life\, and some of the threats and challenges their champions are fending off in an effort to preserve the places that matter most to Angelenos.  \n\n\n\nTo sign up\, enter your name and email address and click the “Buy Ticket” button above. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \nCity Hall has completely failed to deal with land use problems big and small\, from metal thieves snatching bronze lamps off the historic Glendale Hyperion bridge to a tenant illegally gutting the landmark Pig ’N Whistle restaurant\, to a housing crisis exacerbated by real estate investment trusts that evict renters and take rent stabilized units off the market in return for illegal Airbnb listings and vast swaths of blighted\, boarded up buildings. If Los Angeles is going to be saved\, it will be done building by building at a neighborhood level\, by Angelenos who care and know how to get things done. In such a challenging time for the city\, the stories of people who are stepping up to save the places they love are what we all need to hear. Tune in to find out what’s happening\, how you can get involved\, and how to launch this kind of campaign in your own community.  \nOur special guests are: \n\n RITA COFIELD (Friends at Mafundi). Rita will share the story of the Mafundi Center\, a modernist\, city-owned Watts cultural hub that was threatened with demolition for redevelopment until the community came together with a successful landmarking nomination. Now a protected Historic-Cultural Monument\, Mafundi Center is drawing on its rich history and looking to the future\, with plans to restore the building and fill it with cultural programming. In the meantime\, the Watts Happening Coffee House serves the best breakfast around.\n EDWARD LANDLER (film maker\, “I Build The Tower”). For four decades\, Ed has been deeply involved in the interpretation and preservation of Simon Rodia’s world renowned folk art environment\, the Watts Towers and the wider Watts community. Now\, he’s sounding the alarm about an enormous\, fast-tracked mixed-use development project by Thomas Safran & Associates and the Housing Corporation of America that would straddle the rail tracks near the 103rd Street/Watts Towers A Line Metro station. The proposed new buildings are completely out of scale with the historic neighborhood\, and would split Watts in two while destroying the Watts Towers viewshed\, an important criterion for the site to achieve UNESCO World Heritage Status. Even worse\, the proposed mega-development would break a decades-old promise that open green space will connect the train station and the Watts Towers in a linear park and community space called the Cultural Crescent.\n EMMA RAULT (Friends of Walker’s Cafe). When Emma moved to San Pedro from Downtown L.A.\, she quickly found a favorite local joint on the bluffs at Point Fermin\, the time capsule diner Walker’s Cafe. But shortly after\, Walker’s closed with no notice. Concerned that it might be sold for redevelopment or sit vacant for years\, Emma gave herself a crash course in Los Angeles preservation law\, then researched and wrote a historic landmark nomination for this very special place. From its neon and incandescent sign to the hand painted menu\, vintage knickknacks and “Chinatown” cameo\, Walker’s has a story worth telling\, about San Pedro\, legacy businesses\, and what it means to be part of a community.\n MIKI JACKSON (AIDS Healthcare Foundation / Healthy Housing Foundation). Miki is a lifelong activist whose current focus is on the intersection of affordable housing and historic preservation. She’ll talk about HHF’s strategy of buying up vacant Skid Row residency hotels like the King Edward\, Baltimore and Barclay and fixing them up for low-income tenants at a fraction of the cost of new affordable housing construction. In addition to welcoming residents to call these buildings home\, HHF is submitting landmarking nominations and restoring and documenting significant historic features.\n JAMES DASTOLI (@WindowsReplaced on Twitter). James is an Angeleno with a finely tuned eye for architectural integrity. When he noticed that buildings he admired in Los Feliz were changing for the worse\, he started documenting the difference between original wooden windows and the cheap\, ugly vinyl windows that often replaced them\, and highlighting the aesthetic and environmental benefits of restoring rather than replacing historic home and apartment windows. James will share what he’s learned\, and the informative video short he produced to encourage landlords and homeowners to give their old windows a second chance.\n STEVEN LUFTMAN (Art Deco Society of Los Angeles). Preservationist and community activist Steve will talk about his successful campaign to designate the derelict Fairfax Theatre as a protected national and local monument\, how Historic Preservation Overlay Zones can preserve affordable housing and good buildings\, and the redevelopment threats facing the Carthay Circle community.\n NATHAN MARSAK (R.I.P Los Angeles / The Cranky Preservationist). Half architectural historian\, half performance artist\, Nathan wields his acid wit to shine a light on the lies of the urban density movement\, contrasting dense\, green\, attractive historic structures with the upzoned file cabinets for humans that too often replace them. He’ll highlight some of his favorite neighborhoods and the multi-family housing threatened by the wrecking ball\, and remind us that while we can’t go back in time and save Bunker Hill\, it’s not too late for Pico-Union.\n DAVID SILVAS (Boyle Heights Neighborhood Council). Realtor and preservation advocate David will talk about his work to foster community around historic buildings in the Boyle Heights neighborhood\, where his family has deep ties\, including campaigns to celebrate the neighborhood mom and pop corner stores\, legacy businesses\, and the Brooklyn Avenue Commercial District. As President of the Planning and Land Use Committee for the Neighborhood Council\, David believes that tools like the Boyle Heights Community Plan\, if properly implemented\, can help protect this dense\, historic neighborhood from gentrification and displacement.\n GORDON PATTISON (On Bunker Hill). Gordon is a native son of the lost Victorian residential neighborhood of Bunker Hill\, where his family’s historic homes were seized under eminent domain\, landmarked and moved to Heritage Square\, then tragically destroyed in a fire set by vandals. He speaks eloquently about the lasting impacts of poor planning on his family and the wider Los Angeles community\, and advocates for the preservation of our precious historic buildings and neighborhoods.\n\nThis webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with rare photos that will bring the history and future of many precious Los Angeles landmarks to life\, while inspiring you to look around your own community for ways you can help to keep old places around with fresh new uses. And you’ll find the look of an Esotouric webinar is a little different than your standard dry Zoom session\, with lively interactive graphics courtesy of the mmhmm app.   \nOur guests are eager to answer your questions\, so get ready to be a part of the show. \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week. Please note: the 2-hour running time is just an estimate\, and we often run long because the stories take on a life of their own. You can always come back and watch the last part of the webinar recording later. \nSo\, tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious. \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \n\nABOUT OUR GUESTS:  \nRITA COFIELD received her BA in Architecture and Planning from Howard University and has recently received a Masters in Heritage Conservation from the University of Southern California. She freelances as a cultural resource manager and Public Historian with valuable experience in community-based projects. She is passionate about finding ways to re-insert multiple perspectives into the larger narratives of our history. She enjoys activities and projects that foster innovation when it comes to caring for historic resources in underserved neighborhoods. She also feels a moral responsibility to expose the youth in her community of Watts to preservation education\, hands-on training in building conservation\, and its rich history as a means to community engagement and pride. (Visit https://www.friendsatmafundi.org/ for more info) \nEDWARD LANDLER received a B. A. in Literature and Film under the supervision of film historian Jay Leyda at Yale University.  He got his practical film training with Satyajit Ray in India\, Luis Bunuel in France\, and work on independent feature films in the United States.  His first film\, "Pharaoh’s Dream"\, an experimental short\, was shot in Calcutta and Los Angeles. “I  Build  The  Tower” (2006) the feature-length documentary film about Simon Rodia and the Watts Towers of Los Angeles was produced with Simon Rodia’s nephew\, Brad Byer. Ed has been an advocate and artist working in Watts for the past 40 years. (Visit Ed’s website https://www.ibuildthetower.com) \nEMMA RAULT is a writer and a translator from Dutch and German. Her essays about place and belonging have appeared in Guernica\, New York Magazine\, the LA Review of Books and elsewhere. In San Pedro\, she serves on the Central San Pedro Neighborhood Council\, works with feral cats and crews a sailboat. As a transplant from halfway across the world\, she is endlessly fascinated with LA’s singular history\, and in constant pursuit of its pockets of beauty\, quiet and kinship. (Visit https://www.savewalkerscafe.com/ to learn more and get involved) \nMIKI JACKSON is a gay and lesbian rights activist. In 1990\, she and fellow activist Morris Kight founded Aunt Bee’s\, a free laundry service for people suffering from AIDS. The Santa Monica Boulevard thrift store attached to Aunt Bee’s helped cover expenses for the laundry service\, and was the inspiration for AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s chain of Out Of The Closet thrift stores. Today\, Miki is a consultant for the AIDS Healthcare Foundation\, advocating on policy issues including affordable housing. \nJAMES DASTOLI is originally from Stamford\, CT\, and arrived in Los Angeles in 2007 to pursue a career as a visual effects artist. As a virtual production art director\, he studies plans and pattern books to build accurate digital models of historic buildings for film and VR. Renting in Los Feliz and Miracle Mile gave him a deep appreciation of period revival styles\, and led to years of research on original wood and metal windows. After seeing vinyl window replacements destroying neighborhood character all over the city\, he connected with other preservationists to try to fight it. (Follow James at https://twitter.com/WindowsReplaced/) \nSTEVEN LUFTMAN born in Hollywood\, Steve gained a lifelong appreciation for art and architecture in the mid-century cultural institutions of Los Angeles: at five he opened a savings account at Lytton Savings on the Sunset Strip\, he took art classes at the then brand-new William Pereira-designed L.A. County Art Museum\, took in movies at the Cinerama Dome\, and with his mother and sister experienced L.A. Philharmonic rehearsals at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. After graduating from the Craig Ellwood/James Tyler-designed campus of Art Center College of Design\, he moved to New York City to work in advertising. Returning to Los Angeles in 1997\, Steve used the seminal Gebhard & Winter’s "An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles" in his search to find the perfect apartment. With some luck\, Steve and his partner Karen found themselves in what would become the Mendel and Mabel Meyer Courtyard Apartments—LA Historical-Cultural Monument #1096. While always a preservationist and a social activist at heart\, it wasn’t until his beloved home of eighteen years was threatened with demolition in 2015 that he wrote his first Historic-Cultural Monument application. To date\, Steve has written or co-written ten HCM applications\, and has been an active participant in trying to save fifteen historically significant buildings. He also campaigns for affordable housing and is active in the tenant rights movement\, and can regularly be found in at City Hall supporting the preservation efforts of others. Steve longs for the day when greedy developers take a break from trying to destroy the historic buildings and neighborhoods of Los Angeles so he can take enough time off to enjoy his other passion\, racing his 1978 Crossle Formula Ford. (Follow Steve’s latest campaign to landmark the Fairfax Theatre at https://artdecola.org/fairfax-theatre-2021.) \nDAVID SILVAS’ family has a long lineage in Boyle Heights\, as it was the first Los Angeles community his family moved to at the turn of the century from when they arrived from Hungary and Romania and were involved with financing the Weber and Spaulding designed International Institute on Boyle Avenue\, an important community space that was a stepping stone for immigrants. His passion for historic preservation and architectural properties is matched by few. From Victorian\, to American Craftsman\, to Hollywood Regency and Mid Century Modern\, his admiration for period design in Los Angeles is a driving inspiration in his business as his real estate practice\, Engel & Völkers Beverly Hills focuses solely on Architectural and Historic real estate throughout Southern California and has made him one of the most preeminent agents specializing in historic and architectural properties. Concerned about the future of this vibrant and historic community\, David has been a vocal advocate for adaptive reuse of current buildings\, extensive landmarking and preservation for heritage sites\, and advocating harmonious-small scale development that is sensitive to the already established neighborhoods. Community engagement and education is a passion of his\, as this is key in preserving this historic treasure.  David holds an MBA from the University of Toledo and is a published author. Organizational memberships include: The Los Angeles Conservancy\, Docomomo\, The California Preservation Foundation\, and The Southern California Paul R. Williams Society. He is Vice President of both the Boyle Heights Neighborhood Council and Boyle Heights Community Partners. \nGORDON PATTISON is a native son of Bunker Hill. His family owned the Salt Box and the Castle\, the last two homes standing after the neighborhood was cleared for redevelopment. To learn more\, see Gordon’s LAVA Sunday Salon presentation Old Bunker Hill: One Family’s Perspective. Gordon can also be found talking about Angels Flight Railway on Off-Ramp\, visiting the few remaining pieces of his family’s houses at Heritage Square Museum\, on KCET’s Lost L.A. series Lost Hills episode\, L.A. As Subject’s funicular feature and remembering novelist John Fante at his square dedication and atop Bunker Hill. He can also be found on Esotouric’s The Lowdown on Downtown tours\, sharing memories of lost Bunker Hill. \nNATHAN MARSAK says: “I came to praise Los Angeles\, not to bury her. And yet developers\, City Hall and social reformers work in concert to effect wholesale demolition\, removing the human scale of my town\, tossing its charm into a landfill. The least I can do is memorialize in real time those places worth noting\, as they slide inexorably into memory. In college I studied under Banham.  I learned to love Los Angeles via Reyner’s teachings (and came to abjure Mike Davis and his lurid\, fanciful\, laughably-researched assertions).  In grad school I focused on visionary urbanism and technological utopianism—so while some may find the premise of preserving communities so much ill-considered reactionary twaddle\, at least I have a background in the other side.  Anyway\, I moved to Los Angeles\, and began to document.  I drove about shooting neon signs. I put endless miles across the Plains of Id on the old Packard as part of the 1947project; when Kim Cooper blogged about some bad lunch meat in Compton\, I drove down to there to check on the scene of the crime (never via freeway—you can’t really learn Los Angeles unless you study her from the surface streets).  But in short order one landmark after another disappeared.  Few demolitions are as contentious or high profile as the Ambassador or Parker Center; rather\, it is all the little houses and commercial buildings the social engineers are desperate to destroy in the name of the Greater Good. Nathan’s blogs are: Bunker Hill Los Angeles\, RIP Los Angeles & On Bunker Hill \n\nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one another on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging even deeper into the secret heart of the city they love.\n \nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion.
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SUMMARY:Know Your Los Angeles County Poor Farm / Rancho Los Amigos (1888-?)
DESCRIPTION:This live webinar can now be viewed on Esotouric’s streaming channel here. \nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, for an immersive cultural history webinar exploring 133 years of the Rancho Los Amigos south campus in Downey\, its landmark architecture and landscape\, its progressive social and medical innovations\, colorful characters\, legends and mysteries\, decades of neglect and the current demolition threat from the County Supervisors. \nOur very special guest for this program is Colleen Adair Fliedner\, author of the book “Rancho Centennial: Ranchos Los Amigos Medical Center\, 1888-1988.” \nGranted unprecedented access to the site\, its archives\, staff and former residents\, Colleen spent five years compiling her illustrated centennial history of the Poor Farm\, from its founding as a safe home and workplace for the indigent and infirm to its transformation into one of eight national polio treatment facilities to the early stages of its second life as an abandoned campus that draws urban explorers and ghost hunters. Can this neglected site become a place of healing and service once again? \nUsing rare photographs and historical documents\, we’ll take you on a virtual tour of Skid Row in Downtown Los Angeles circa 1890\, to demonstrate why there was such a great need for large scale public health and care facilities like County General Hospital (established 1858) and the County Poor Farm (established 1888). What was Skid Row like at this time\, who lived there\, and what were their physical and mental needs and challenges? \nWe’ll meet the progressive policy makers and citizens who wove the social safety net\, see how the Poor Farm navigated its growing pains as the County and the population needing public assistance grew\, and learn why Los Angeles was so successful in this work when other communities failed. \nThen we’ll fast forward to 1928 to spend a virtual day on the Poor Farm. It wasn’t just a live-in care facility for the indigent\, aged\, injured and infirm\, but a working farm\, with cattle\, sheep\, pigs\, chickens\, dairy facilities\, and fields planted with fruit\, vegetables and flowers and challenged by years of drought and flood. \nWe’ll meet the administration (including dedicated Supervisor William Ruddy Harrison)\, staff and some of the residents\, visit the Aviary\, the Library\, the Psychopathic Wards\, the huge Kitchen and Laundry\, the Auditorium and the newly created Occupational Therapy Department\, which employed residents making furniture\, producing linens and crafting tools for on-site repairs\, encouraging self-sufficiency by each according to their ability and a return to productive life outside the institution. \nIn 1932\, the Poor Farm is renamed Rancho Los Amigos and in 1933 the National Social Security Act provides a monthly income that allows many senior citizens to leave the institution and live independently in boarding houses and residency hotels. The facility adapts to these social changes with a new focus on medical services\, providing long-term care\, iron lung breathing machines and physical therapy during the polio pandemic. \nBy the Poor Farm’s 1988 centennial when Colleen’s book was released\, the North Campus is a thriving modern trauma and spinal care hospital offering cutting edge treatments and world class care\, while the sprawling South Campus is in disrepair\, with most of its historic buildings abandoned and old plantings growing wild. Over the next few decades\, buildings will be lost to arson fire and neglect\, and urban explorers\, ghost hunters and vandals attracted to the site despite tall fences and frequent security patrols. \nIn 2019\, the County Supervisors approve a plan to demolish much of the historic campus\, and in 2021 work begins on a 5-acre\, $12 Million sports complex. \nIn this webinar\, we’ll ask why? Why hasn’t the County\, charged with caring for tens of thousands of people experiencing homelessness and the physical and mental ailments that often accompany it\, used the enormous South Campus to provide services\, housing and aid to those in need\, as it was established to do? Have they forgotten about Tent City\, the semi-permanent installation of five-man\, canvas homes built over wooden floors with shared bathroom facilities that was in use from the 1930s-1950s? \nLos Angeles can do so much more\, and the past can show us how. So let’s get to Know Your Los Angeles County Poor Farm before it’s gone. \nThis webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with rare photos that will bring the story of the County Poor Farm / Rancho Los Amigos to life. And you’ll find the look of an Esotouric webinar is a little different than your standard dry Zoom session\, with lively interactive graphics courtesy of the mmhmm app. \nColleen is eager to answer your questions\, so get ready to be a part of the show. \nABOUT OUR GUEST: \nCOLLEEN ADAIR FLIEDNER is an award-winning author\, journalist\, and historian. She has written three nonfiction books\, radio and t.v. commercials\, screenplays\, and hundreds of articles for newspapers\, magazines\, and online publications. She was a staff writer for the Orange County Register newspaper’s online travel website and was a regular contributor for Talking Travel Radio Network based on the East Coast. “In the Shadow of War: Spies\, Love & the Lusitania” is her first novel. Colleen began her professional career as a research historian\, writer\, and oral historian at California State University\, Long Beach. Her first nonfiction history book “Rancho Centennial: Ranchos Los Amigos Medical Center\, 1888-1988″ was written for the County of Los Angeles\, a five-year-long project which required conducting more than 100 oral history interviews and combing through historic ledgers\, photographs\, and dusty\, long-forgotten boxes of old documents. Her next two books were a history about Park City\, Utah\, “Stories in Stone: Miners and Madams\, Merchants and Murders\,” and “Quick Escapes from Orange County.” Her latest project is a nonfiction book\, “Fascinating True Stories from Old California\,” a compilation of interesting accounts of some of the Golden State’s most unique people\, places\, and things. Colleen lives in Orange\, California with her husband\, Rick\, and two Pomeranians. Visit Colleen’s Website for more information. \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week. Please note: the 2-hour running time is just an estimate\, and we often run long because the stories take on a life of their own. You can always come back and watch the last part of the webinar recording later. \nSo\, tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious. \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \n\n\nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one another on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging even deeper into the secret heart of the city they love.\n \nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion.
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SUMMARY:Learning from Boyle Heights / Saving Los Angeles
DESCRIPTION:This is a recording of a webinar that previously streamed live. You can purchase a ticket to watch the recording\, but you won’t be able to participate in the live chat or Q&A.  \n\n\n\nTo sign up\, enter your name and email address and click the “Buy Ticket” button above. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, for an immersive cultural history webinar about Boyle Heights’ rich legacy of civic activism\, arts education\, faith and progressive social service organizations\, and the devoted community advocates who are fighting to preserve and reactivate historic landmarks to give the community places to honor their past and shape the future. \nAll the major challenges faced by Los Angeles in 2021 come into sharp focus in Boyle Heights\, the early residential suburb on the east side of the L.A. River. \nThe longtime councilman Jose Huizar is facing trial on racketeering charges\, gentrification is encroaching from the high-rent Arts District across the still unfinished “world class” redesigned Sixth Street Bridge\, small businesses are struggling and locals with deep roots are facing displacement. \nBut the solutions to the community’s challenges are there in the past\, in the stories of progressive political organizers building coalitions and taking back power\, arts education transforming young lives\, and charitable homes for orphaned children\, immigrants and seniors protecting the most vulnerable. Today\, locals are working to restore\, repurpose and preserve landmarks associated with Boyle Heights’ progressive past\, to serve as incubators for a new generation of community builders. \nFor more than a century\, the citizens of Boyle Heights have taken on tough civic challenges with brains\, grit and heart\, and come out stronger. How can current residents look to their past to find a new model for engaged civic and cultural life\, and inspire the rest of the city to follow? Let’s talk about it! \nOur special guests for this program are: \n\nSean Carrillo\, a member of the ASCO arts collective who as a teen found his artist’s voice in the photo labs of the All Nations Youth Center (Soto-Michigan Jewish Community Center) and studying under Sister Karen Boccalero at Self Help Graphics. Sean is joined by his dear friend Daniel Villarreal\, an actor and fellow member of ASCO\, who also benefited from the arts education offered in Boyle Heights.\nVivian Escalante\, who leads Boyle Heights Community Partners\, a non-profit dedicated to preserving cultural landmarks\, protecting legacy businesses and documenting neighborhood stories.\nStephen Sass\, President of the Breed Street Shul Project\, a longtime chronicler of local Jewish history and advocate for the preservation\, restoration and reactivation of the historic temple.\nDavid Silvas\, Vice President of the Boyle Heights Neighborhood Council\, who has a particular interest in historic preservation and equitable and ethical land use decisions\, including fighting the displacement of culturally Japanese seniors from the Sakura Gardens retirement facility.\nDavid Kipen\, Southern California historian and educator. David shares how his tenure as Director of Literature for the National Endowment for the Arts helped shape his work with the Libros Schmibros neighborhood lending library on Mariachi Plaza.\nSteven Luftman\, historic preservation advocate\, whose latest campaign is the Fairfax Theatre\, where many former Boyle Heights residents met to socialize\, brainstorm\, fundraise for their new culturally Jewish neighborhood.\n\nTopics include: \n\nA short history of Boyle Heights’ development as a culturally diverse streetcar suburb absorbing waves of immigrants from Eastern Europe\, Japan\, Mexico and Russia.\nThe history of the Breed Street Shul as a Jewish spiritual site\, and the decades-long campaign to protect the earthquake damaged landmark from demolition with the aim of restoring and reactivating it to serve the secular Boyle Heights community.\nThe neighborhood’s influential arts education programs\, including the Soto-Michigan Jewish Community Center and Self Help Graphics\, and how ideas hashed out in these fertile spaces spread far beyond Boyle Heights. If you’ve ever participated in a Día de los Muertos event in the United States\, you can thank Sister Karen and Self Help Graphics for their work at Evergreen Cemetery.\nHow secular Jewish organizers associated with the Vladeck Center\, Jewish Labor Committee\, Los Angeles Workmen’s Circle and CSO-Community Service Organization\, including Julius Levitt and Saul Alinsky\, helped to transform the political power base in Los Angeles and foster a vibrant Chicano Power movement.\nThe landmarking campaign for the Nishiyama Residence and Otomisan\, the last Japanese restaurant in Boyle Heights\, a significant commercial landmark and a poster child for Los Angeles’ failure to enact a Legacy Business Registry.\nThe history of the culturally Japanese retirement facility Keiro / Sakura Gardens. Originally the home of the pioneering Workman family\, it became the Hebrew Shelter and the Jewish Home for the Aged\, before being sold to a Japanese-American non-profit with the proviso that they continue the charitable work of protecting vulnerable elders. In the aftermath of the property’s sale to a developer and the rejection of more than a century’s ethical land use\, we’ll talk about what comes next for the historic site\, and how the community can help hold private developers and politicians accountable.\nPlus we’ll highlight interesting landmarks that tell the layered history of Boyle Heights\, including the Max Factor House on Boyle Avenue\, with its garage that served as the laboratory for his cosmetics innovations\, and which was later home to community physician Dr. H.J. Hara.\nCelebrating ten years of the Libros Schmibros Lending Library on Mariachi Plaza\, and founder David Kipen’s advocacy for the 21st Century Federal Writer’s Project Act\, inspired by Depression-era cultural programs.\n\nThis webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with rare photos that will bring the story of Boyle Heights to life. And you’ll find the look of an Esotouric webinar is a little different than your standard dry Zoom session\, with lively interactive graphics courtesy of the mmhmm app.   \nOur guests are eager to answer your questions\, so get ready to be a part of the show. \nABOUT OUR GUESTS: \nSEAN CARRILLO was born in Boyle Heights in 1960; the eighth of nine children born to Jose P. Carrillo and Elisa Arevalo of El Paso\, Texas. He attended Resurrection Grammar School in East LA and Bishop John J. Cantwell High School in Montebello. As a teenager\, Sean completed a self-directed photography course at All Nations Neighborhood Center  and later at the behest of Director Bill Maxwell he became a member of the board of directors as Community and Youth Representative. He attended Los Angeles City College and Cal State LA\, where he worked as the Events Administrator for the Exploratorium Art Gallery. At Cal State in 1980\, Sean met visual artists Harry Gamboa Jr. and Gronk. He joined their performance art group\, ASCO\, and toured with them throughout the Southwest for several years as a performer\, artist and Technical Director. In 1984 Sean met Bibbe Hansen\, daughter of the late Fluxus artist Al Hansen. They married and he became stepfather of two boys\, Channing and Beck. Shortly thereafter they adopted a daughter\, Rain. In 1986 began he began work as an assistant editor for Steven Eckelberry who was editing a film for director Paul Williams. He worked for several years as an assistant and then graduated to editor. During this period he edited a film on Global Warming for the esteemed documentary director\, Harrison Engel and the legendary educational film company Churchill Films. In 1990 Sean and Bibbe opened Troy Café in downtown Los Angeles\, which quickly became nationally renowned for showcasing the best in multi-cultural music\, art and performance\, with a special emphasis on the Latino Arts Community. Troy Café was nationally recognized as a premier venue for emerging artists. From 1995 – 2004 Sean Carrillo has worked as a producer\, director\, editor and writer of industrial videos\, commercials and live events. Notably\, he produced the in-flight commercial for Hawai‘i Pacific University currently in rotation on United Airlines. In January 2005 he and his wife relocated to the East Coast of the United States. Most recently Sean co-produced a video to commemorate the 35th Anniversary of Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) which was screened at their Anniversary Gala\, at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. Visit Sean’s website. \nVIVIAN ESCALANTE: Born and raised in Boyle Heights\, as my family was displaced by the City of Los Angeles\, Chavez Ravine – Dodger Stadium Project\, and settled into Boyle Heights\, where I attended Sheridan Elementary School\, Hollenbeck Junior High School\, and lettered at Roosevelt High School and was in Student Council as the Girls Athletic Coordinator. In the Spring of 2018\, an active participant with the Committee to Defend Roosevelt from the demolition of our 1923 historic R building and Auditorium with an LAUSD Modernization Project that has erased our history and cultural heritage\, as we fought for the LAUSD Alternative 2 – Modernization and Historic Preservation for what could have been a win-win situation for our community and future generations. In 2019 – Present\, Certified from Center for Nonprofit Management\, a Nonprofit Management Certificate\, Introduction course Individual Donation Fundraising Certificate\, introduction to 101 How to Start a nonprofit course. A passionate soul for historic preservation\, community\, and history\, fueled with enthusiasm for my community of Boyle Heights. As President/CFO of Boyle Heights Community Partners\, focused on giving back\, and moving forward Historic Cultural Monument nomination applications. We are moving fast as developers are moving aggressively faster with demolitions projects to our historic homes\, erasing our cultural and heritage\, as we are preserving it. Sitting on the board of our Boyle Heights Neighborhood Council\, with the ability to have created the first ever Historic Preservation Committee\, and sitting on our Plan and Land Use committee\, working together on behalf of our community. \nSTEPHEN J. SASS\, a native Angeleno\, is President of the Jewish Historical Society of Southern California and Breed Street Shul Project and Chair of the Los Angeles County Historical Landmarks and Records Commission. Steve was editor of the award-winning Jewish Los Angeles: A Guide\, executive producer and co-writer of “Meet Me at Brooklyn & Soto\,” JHS’s documentary on East L.A.’s Jewish heritage\, which aired on public television\, and has written extensively on regional history and preservation issues. He chaired the Fairfax Community Mural Project\n\, which resulted in a photo mural in the heart of the Beverly-Fairfax neighborhood highlighting L.A.’s Jewish history painted by seniors and teens. He has also been a consultant on exhibits at such venues as the Japanese American National Museum and the Autry Museum\, as well as the annual celebration of Jewish American Heritage Month by the Los Angeles City Council. Professionally\, Steve is EVP & Chief Counsel for HBO Max/TNT/TBS and truTV Original Programming. \nDAVID SILVAS’ family has a long lineage in Boyle Heights\, as it was the first Los Angeles community his family moved to at the turn of the century from when they arrived from Hungary and Romania and were involved with financing the Weber and Spaulding designed International Institute on Boyle Avenue\, an important community space that was a stepping stone for immigrants. His passion for historic preservation and architectural properties is matched by few. From Victorian\, to American Craftsman\, to Hollywood Regency and Mid Century Modern\, his admiration for period design in Los Angeles is a driving inspiration in his business as his real estate practice\, Engel & Völkers Beverly Hills focuses solely on Architectural and Historic real estate throughout Southern California and has made him one of the most preeminent agents specializing in historic and architectural properties. Concerned about the future of this vibrant and historic community\, David has been a vocal advocate for adaptive reuse of current buildings\, extensive landmarking and preservation for heritage sites\, and advocating harmonious-small scale development that is sensitive to the already established neighborhoods. Community engagement and education is a passion of his\, as this is key in preserving this historic treasure.  David holds an MBA from the University of Toledo and is a published author. Organizational memberships include: The Los Angeles Conservancy\, Docomomo\, The California Preservation Foundation\, and The Southern California Paul R. Williams Society. He is Vice President of both the Boyle Heights Neighborhood Council and Boyle Heights Community Partners. \nDAVID KIPEN began his career as manager of the Nuart Theater in his native Los Angeles. He holds a degree in Literature from Yale University\, and served as Book Editor/Critic for the San Francisco Chronicle and Director of Literature for the National Endowment for the Arts before joining Writing Programs at UCLA. His areas of expertise include the literatures of California\, Los Angeles and the West; Pynchon studies; urbanism; film; modern and contemporary American literature; Latin American literature; Western history; the Federal Writers Project of the WPA; and the practice of lexicography and quotation. He is the author of “The Schreiber Theory: A Radical Rewrite of American Film History” (Melville House\, 2006); a translation from the Spanish of Cervantes’ novella “The Dialogue of the Dogs” (Melville House\, 2009); and introductions or chapters of books including reissues of the WPA guides to California\, Los Angeles\, San Francisco and San Diego (UC Press). His teaching includes the course “Defining California: From Bierce’s The Devil’s Dictionary to Wikipedia.” He most recent book is\, Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries and Letters\, 1542 to 2018.  He also helps to run Libros Schmibros\, his neighborhood lending library on Mariachi Plaza in Boyle Heights. \nSTEVEN LUFTMAN was born and raised in Laurel Canyon. Aside from a 10 year stint in New York\, he has resided in Los Angeles his whole life. He was an Art Director in Advertising professionally\, but his experience with eviction pulled him into working as an activist for historic and housing preservation.  Before he was evicted\, Steven was a vintage race car driver and racer a 1978 Crosslé Formula Ford. In his spare time\, he enjoys cooking and going to live music shows.  Before being Ellis Acted from his Beverly-Grove apartment of 19 years\, Steven deeply appreciated the format of the neighborhood he lived\, where his grandparents had lived across the street\, where he had gotten his first hair cut as a boy\, where walking to the grocery store was viable. The old charm and court-yarded format of his building made knowing and communicating with neighbors an easy and enjoyable experience.  During his residency in the apartment\, Steven watched his neighborhood be developed in an anti-social way\, against the historic architecture of the existing buildings and which dislocated long-standing members of the community. When he received the Ellis Act\, Steven’s initial response was to historically preserve his beautiful building\, in which he succeeded. However\, was still forced to leave due to a condominium conversion.  This experience set him on his current path of loving and saving old buildings\, including his successful landmarking of Kurt Meyer’s Lytton Saving (1960)\, tragically demolished by the Frank Gehry’s mega-project in spite of that designation\, his efforts to preserve and designate L.A.’s unique bungalow courts\, vernacular apartments\, Tom Bergin’s Irish pub\, and the former Fairfax Theatre. \nDANIEL VILLARREAL in 1973 moved to the heart of East Los Angeles\, a neighborhood called Boyle Heights. He attended Hollenbeck Jr. High where he took up writing and Roosevelt High School where he learned photography. Villarreal performed his poetry readings at art openings and was a frequent contributor of photography to the Rock Y Ondas music column in La Opinion. Villarreal’s talents produced the cover shots for the East L.A. punk rock band\, The Brat. His photographic output has been archived at UC Santa Barbara.  In 1980 Villarreal was introduced to the elite performance art troupe from East LA called ASCO (nausea). For the following 4 years\, Villarreal exercised his acting talents as a performer with the controversial ASCO group.  In 1984\, Villarreal met Ramon Menendez\, who would go on to direct the feature film\, Stand and Deliver in 1987. As an actor in the film\, Villarreal developed a close relationship with Edward James Olmos\, who brought Villarreal into the epic fold of Latino story telling in the highly acclaimed film\, American Me\, 1992. This opportunity allowed Villarreal to continue a professional acting career in such films as Speed\, Menace to Society and The Getaway.  Villarreal developed several projects with Juan Carlos Garza\, a Cal Arts Graduate and TV and Film editor. They were commissioned by AFI Film Institute\, ITVS Television Series and The J.P. Getty Foundation.  Villarreal cowrote and coproduced the independent feature film\, Brother Jonas which was optioned by the great director Alfonso Arau. In addition\, Villarreal has written a pilot script\, All These Little Divas\, for a possible tv series with writer/producer Mary Fry which can air on multiple platforms. Currently Villarreal is producing and appearing in the documentary Ninety Minutes Later based on the life and murder of actress Vanessa Marquez.  Villarreal is a community activist with 40 years experience. He has worked with many community organizations including All Nations Neighborhood Center\, Cispes\, The Christic Institute\, The Heart Project\, Plaza Community Services and Homeboy Industries. Early this year Villarreal received a letter of commendation from City Of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti for his service to the community. \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week. Please note: the 2-hour running time is just an estimate\, and we often run long because the stories take on a life of their own. You can always come back and watch the last part of the webinar recording later. \nSo\, tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious. \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \n\n\nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one another on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging even deeper into the secret heart of the city they love.\n \nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211017T160000
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SUMMARY:A Natural History of Los Angeles Freeways
DESCRIPTION:This is a recording of a webinar that previously streamed live. You can purchase a ticket to watch the recording\, but you won’t be able to participate in the live chat or Q&A.  \nPlease join us Sunday November 14 at 4pm Los Angeles time for a new live webinar. \nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, for an immersive cultural history webinar that’s whirlwind trip through Los Angeles freeway lore\, from their design\, mapping and engineering innovations to the communities displaced in their path\, packed with unexpected tidbits that will forever change the way you navigate and understand the city.   \n\n\n\nTo sign up\, enter your name and email address and click the “Buy Ticket” button above. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \nOur special guests for this program are transit historian Paul Haddad (author of the newly published Freewaytopia: How Freeways Shaped Los Angeles)\, photographer and educator Jeff Gates (In Our Path) and Bunker Hill native son Gordon Pattison\, a witness to the displacement and community disconnect caused by the 110- Harbor Freeway’s 4th Street Cut. \nWe’ll hop right onto the fast lane as Paul Haddad takes us for a virtual tour around the freeways and interchanges featured in “Freewaytopia\,” slowing to see the sights and point out memorable characters and vistas. Our other guests will chime in with insights along the way. \nThe route includes: \n\nThe East LA Interchange\, the world’s busiest\, designed by Heinz Heckeroth and the perpetual target of legendary traffic reporter Bill Keene’s razzing with nicknames including Malfunction Junction\, The Beast\, The Octopus\, The East Delay Interchange and the Nickel/Dime (where 5 and 10 meet). With more than a half million daily vehicle trips\, the Mother of All Interchanges gives birth to transit quintuplets: the San Bernardino (I-10 East)\, the Santa Monica (I-10 West)\, the Pomona (SR-60 East)\, the Santa Ana (U.S. 101 North and I-5 South)\, and the Golden State (5 North)\, so even if you’ve never traveled her lanes\, she’s part of your Los Angeles journey.\nThe Figueroa Tunnels (1930-36)\, designed by master Los Angeles bridge architect Merrill Butler to carry two-way street traffic\, they became part of the freeway system to solve the problem of connecting the jammed up Arroyo Seco Parkway (1940) to the new Downtown Los Angeles Four Level interchange\, the world’s first such connector.\nA trip around L.A.’s rare cloverleaf on- and off-ramps on the Glendale Freeway (SR-2)\, 405 and 101\, with an explanation of the engineering flaws inherent in a sprawling design that reduces transitioning traffic speeds to a grueling 35 mph\, and the many attempts by CalTrans to patch the broken system.\nA quick trip from the 105/110 to the 105/405 interchanges\, to show how the failures of the Downtown Four-Level were solved by adding ramps exclusively for carpool lanes\, so interchanging drivers are able to sustain freeway speeds.\nThe graceful 10/405 interchange (1964)\, the first to be designed by a woman (Marilyn Reece Jorgenson) and the first major interchange in which cars could blaze through at freeway speeds.\n\nWe’ll also sit a spell with Gordon Pattison\, who grew up on old Bunker Hill and saw his Victorian neighborhood split in two when the 4th Street Cut cleared land for the 110-Harbor Freeway to connect with the 101-Hollywood and 10-East. Gordon will share his childhood memories of the massive construction project\, then provide an historian’s overview of how freeway construction severed Fort Moore Hill\, dug through historic cemetery plots and forever transformed the shape of northern Downtown. \nAll of these themes lead us at freeway speeds to explore Jeff Gates’ “In Our Path” photo project. “In Our Path” comprises two series of black-and-white photographs and essays chronicling the construction and impact of the I-105 “Century Freeway.”  The 18-mile freeway runs east-west from El Segundo and the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) to Norwalk and bisects the communities of Hawthorne\, Willowbrook\, Lynwood\, and Downey. \nHe took the first set of photos between 1982 and 1983\, when a seven-year injunction filed by homeowners\, the NAACP\, and the Sierra Club\, stopped construction. At first\, he had no idea what was taking place on that swath of land. But he wanted to capture the sense of “abandoned suburbia” that lay before him. As he photographed\, he became acquainted with the history of this public project and with the people who lived within and along the Corridor. He also spoke to those who were building the freeway and those responsible for carrying out the stipulations of the court’s Final Consent Decree. \nIn 1990\, after attending an exhibit of these first set of photos\, Hall & Associates (the successor to the Center for Law in the Public Interest in the Century Freeway litigation\, and the firm which represented homeowners in this case) commissioned Gates to rephotograph the freeway now that it was finally under construction. This second set of photos\, taken between 1990 and 1993\, document the physical transformation of the soon-to-be-opened freeway. \nThis webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with rare photos that will bring the story of Los Angeles freeways and their impact on the communities they cross to life. And you’ll find the look of an Esotouric webinar is a little different than your standard dry Zoom session\, with lively interactive graphics courtesy of the mmhmm app.   \nOur guests are eager to answer your questions\, so get ready to be a part of the show. \nABOUT OUR GUESTS: \nGORDON PATTISON is a native son of Bunker Hill. His family owned the Salt Box and the Castle\, the last two homes standing after the neighborhood was cleared for redevelopment. He is a tireless advocate for the lost neighborhood\, through illustrated lectures (like Old Bunker Hill: One Family’s Perspective)and as a guest on Esotouric tours and webinars. \nJEFF GATES is an artist and writer interested in the intersection of art and American culture. He is the founder of the Chamomile Tea Party\, where he’s created over 230 posters on the sorry state of American political discourse. In 2018\, Google Arts & Culture published a seven-part online exhibition of this work\, allowing Gates to create a visual history of American politics from the Tea Party’s rise to the effects of Donald Trump’s presidency.  Public engagement is an essential aspect of Gates’ work. And\, he has incorporated several online communities as part of his projects. In 1999\, concerned about online privacy\, he was the first artist to use eBay as an art form\, auctioning his personal demographics to the highest bidder. After 9/11\, he created the online site\, “Dichotomy: It Was a Matter of Time and Place\,” where people posted their experiences that day from two perspectives: those affected directly by the attacks and those who witnessed the events via the media. And\, in 2008\, much to the chagrin of his most ardent supporters\, he tweeted his root canal live to a group of dentists across North America.  In the early 1990s\, Gates formed Artists for a Better Image (ArtFBI) to study artist stereotypes in contemporary culture. He published a history of these stereotypes and collected artist depictions from film and TV\, using them to talk with artists about their place in American society. Gates also organized a symposium to discuss how artists could connect with their communities. And\, as a way of engaging with the public\, he produced series of bumper stickers about artists. Gates taught college photography and computer graphics for 23 years before becoming Lead Producer of New Media Initiatives at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. He has written and talked about social media’s effect on organizational change. And\, in 2005\, Gates launched the Smithsonian’s first blog\, Eye Level. His writing and art have appeared in The Washington Post\, The Atlantic\, and The Nation. He is the author of the book Uneventful: The Rise of Photography\, exploring the evolution of photography from the 19th to 21st centuries. He now focuses his time on his art and writing full time. In Our Path is his project website and other projects can be found at Outta Context. \nPAUL HADDAD: A native Angeleno\, Paul Haddad has been writing about Los Angeles since 1996\, when he penned his first essay about businesses and buildings with portmanteau names for Los Angeles Times Magazine. His first nonfiction book was High Fives\, Pennant Drives\, and Fernandomania: A Fan’s History of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Glory Years (1977-1981)\, a look back at the team’s previous championship era through the radio calls of announcer Vin Scully. It was named one of the Best Baseball Books of 2012 by the Los Angeles Daily News and led to Haddad’s participation in Fernando Nation\, ESPN’s 30 for 30 documentary on Fernando Valenzuela. Haddad’s other nonfiction books include the perennial “local interest” bookstore favorite 10\,000 Steps a Day in L.A.: 57 Walking Adventures\, an updated edition of the original book\, 10\,000 Steps a Day in L.A.: 52 Walking Adventures. Each appeared on the Los Angeles Times Bestseller List. Haddad has also published several novels\, including Paradise Palms: Red Menace Mob a neo-noir crime novel set during the 1950s about a family trying to fight off gangsters from hijacking their Hollywood hotel. His most recent book is Freewaytopia: How Freeways Shaped Los Angeles. Augmented by 175 photos\, it is the complete\, often-untold story behind L.A.’s vast freeway system\, charting its influence on the city’s landscape and human lives from a 360-degree perspective. The book includes a Foreword by journalist and L.A. Times scribe Patt Morrison. Haddad’s “day job” is in television as a writer\, director\, and executive producer\, which has resulted in multiple Emmy nominations. He is on Twitter and Instagram as @la_dorkout\, on Facebook and his website. \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week. Please note: the 2-hour running time is just an estimate\, and we often run long because the stories take on a life of their own. You can always come back and watch the last part of the webinar recording later. \nSo\, tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious. \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \n\n\nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one another on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging even deeper into the secret heart of the city they love.\n \nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210930T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210930T220000
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SUMMARY:Los Angeles: City of Neon Light
DESCRIPTION:This is a recording of a webinar that previously streamed live. You can purchase a ticket to watch the recording\, but you won’t be able to participate in the live chat or Q&A.  \nTo sign up\, enter your name and email address and click the “Buy Ticket” button below. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \n\n\n\nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, for an immersive cultural history webinar that’s a deep dive into the history of Los Angeles neon signs\, and how this new art and science grew up with and shaped the city.   \nOur guests for this program are some of the Southland’s most passionate and knowledgable sign geeks\, scholars and artisans. So pull up a virtual chair in the cool green glow of your screen and let’s talk L.A. neon! \nSetting the stage\, neon historian\, geographer and Museum of Neon Art (MONA) board member Dydia DeLyser and her sign crafter / historian husband Paul Greenstein (authors of Neon\, A Light History) will take us on a time travel trip to Los Angeles in neon’s boom years. We’ll learn about the technological benefits and limitations\, get to know iconic local signs and and discover just how these brilliant stripes and whorls defined the urban landscape and helped sell the Southern California dream. \nSignage historian\, tour guide and MONA board member J. Eric Lynxwiler (author of Signs of Life: Los Angeles Is the City of Neon) will focus on Wilshire Boulevard\, pointing out great rooftop and storefront signs lost and still standing and explaining how they interact with and improve the boulevard’s Art Deco\, Beaux Art and Modernist architecture. Plus\, he’ll introduce us to MONA’s work as a collecting institution that restores some historic signs for gallery display\, and works to get others back out into the open air where the community can enjoy them.   \nArchitectural and signage historian Nathan Marsak (author of Los Angeles Neon) puts on his Bunker Hill detective hat for a rare view of the lost neighborhood’s neon signs\, explains how expensive incandescent signs were converted to ultra-modern neon\, explores the city’s vintage hotel rooftop signs and how they were relit\, and shows a little love for his personal post-neon obsession: delicate and endangered artist-designed backlit plastic signs.   \nThis webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with rare photos that will bring the history\, preservation and future of Los Angeles neon to life. And you’ll find the look of an Esotouric webinar is a little different than your standard dry Zoom session\, with lively interactive graphics courtesy of the mmhmm app.   \nOur guests are eager to answer your questions\, so get ready to be a part of the show. \nABOUT OUR GUESTS: \nUrban anthropologist J. Eric Lynxwiler is a Board Member of the Museum of Neon Art (MONA) and\, 22 years running\, the affable host of its nighttime Neon Cruise which takes guests on a convertible double-decker bus from downtown Los Angeles to Hollywood and back. For the Museum of Neon Art\, he has saved numerous neon signs from the wrecking ball. Downtown LA preservationists know him as an LA Conservancy docent for the Broadway theater district and he hosts walking tours of Wilshire’s Miracle Mile district for the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles. Lynxwiler is the co-author of three books of local history: Spectacular Illumination: Neon Los Angeles 1925-1965\, Wilshire Boulevard: Grand Concourse of Los Angeles\, and Knott’s Preserved: From Boysenberry to Theme Park\, The History Of Knott’s Berry Farm. \nDydia DeLyser is a feminist cultural-historical geographer at California State University\, Fullerton who forwards her research interests through community engagements in participatory historical geography. For over a decade she has undertaken scholarly research on how neon signs have transformed the American landscape and\, as part of that work\, has served on the Board of the American Sign Museum and serves as Secretary of the Board of the Museum of Neon Art. Her collaborative research with Paul Greenstein revealed that the Los Angeles sign widely heralded as the first neon sign in the US was in fact not first. Their most recent collaborative effort is the richly illustrated book Neon\, A Light History. \nPaul Greenstein has been one of the most influential Los Angeles neon-sign designers and restorers of the past forty years\, helping keep neon in the public eye and preserving neon’s history for our future. He began in 1977\, a time when neon signs were nearly extinct\, by designing\, building and installing the then-revolutionary neon\, cast resin\, and plastic guitar sign for “Granny’s\,” a rock-and-roll tailor on West Hollywood’s Sunset Strip\, leading to other bespoke neon signs for businesses on what would become the very trendy Melrose Avenue. But even as Greenstein designed\, engineered\, and crafted iconic new signs for new businesses\, he has always also been a leader in sign restoration\, restoring signs like the Hollywood Columbia Drug store sign in 1979-one of the first neon sign restorations possibly in the country\, Hollywood’s 1930 “Castle Argyle” sign\, Westlake Park’s 1928 “Hotel Californian” sign\, and Echo Park’s 1924 “Jensen’s Recreation Center.” Devoted to the art and craft of neon\, as well as to its potential for community beautification and invigoration\, Greenstein uses his neon skills to serve the greater Los Angeles community. He is the co-author\, together with Dydia DeLyser\, of Neon\, A Light History. \n Nathan Marsak  is the author of the books Bunker Hill Los Angeles: Essence of Sunshine and Noir\, Bunker Noir! and “Los Angeles Neon” and can be found spitting tacks in the character of The Cranky Preservationist. His blog is Bunker Hill Los Angeles. \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week. Please note: the 2-hour running time is just an estimate\, and we often run long because the stories take on a life of their own. You can always come back and watch the last part of the webinar recording later. \nSo\, tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious. \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \n\n\nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one another on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging even deeper into the secret heart of the city they love.\n \nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion.
URL:https://esotouric.com/event/los-angeles-neon/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210909T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210909T220000
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SUMMARY:A Love Letter to Los Angeles Streetlights (1867-2021)\, featuring the triumphant rebirth of Sheila Klein’s “Vermonica”
DESCRIPTION:This is a recording of a webinar that previously streamed live. You can purchase a ticket to watch the recording\, but you won’t be able to participate in the live chat or Q&A.  \nTo sign up\, enter your name and email address and click the “Buy Ticket” button below. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \n\n\n\nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, for an immersive cultural history webinar that’s a deep dive into the artistry\, history\, oddities and infrastructure of the streetlights of Los Angeles. \nEven when Los Angeles was a sleepy\, dusty village of 5000 souls\, its vibrant night life demanded a consistent source of illumination. The first privately financed gas lamps were installed along Main Street in 1867\, a modern convenience that helped shape the development of Downtown’s commercial core. \nIn 1882\, electricity arrived\, not in the familiar form of a regular row of bulbs at second story height\, but with spectacular 150’ poles that cast a spreading moonlight glow from 3\,000-candle power arc lamps. Beneath them\, Angelenos enjoyed all the benefits and troubles of a 24 hour city.   \nWith the 20th century came an explosion of urban and suburban development\, illuminated and accompanied by a fascinating assortment of artistically designed streetlights\, many of them installed exclusively along one street or in a single neighborhood. \nIn this webinar\, we’ll go on a then-and-now treasure hunt introducing you to some of those iconic streetlight designs\, their history and evolution as a living part of the urban streetscape. These designs have poetic names like the Broadway Rose\, the Vine Double\, Metropolitan Standards\, Wilshire and Hollywood Specials. \nOn an obscure stretch of East Los Angeles streetscape inches away from the Golden State Freeway\, you’ll discover the charms and mysteries of the Commerce Historic Lighting District\, a striking stand of obsolete streetlights left behind when modern poles were installed. \nIn Angeleno Heights\, you’ll learn about the Carroll Avenue Historic Preservation Overlay Zone\, and how the preservation-minded home owners worked with the city and utility companies to turn back the clock by hiding unsightly overhead wires\, turning their time capsule street into a world class filming location. (This section of the webinar is informed by original\, unpublished archival material that we purchased at the estate sale of the neighborhood’s premier historian.) \nAnd we’ve got special guest streetlight lovers on hand to talk about the poles that beguile them. \n\nInfrastructure historian Jack Feldman — who sits on the board and maintains the virtual museum of Water and Power Associates (W&PA)\, an essential resource for anyone interested in the history of Southern California\, will guide us through the development of streetlighting in Los Angeles\, drawing on the Early Los Angeles Street Lights exhibit.\nHistoric preservation advocate and chronicler of the early French history of Los Angeles C.C. de Vere shines a light on Disneyland’s Main Street USA\, home to a selection of salvaged Llewellyn Electroliers.\nArchitectural historian Nathan Marsak\, author of Bunker Hill Los Angeles: Essence of Sunshine and Noir and Bunker Noir! tells how Patty Hearst and her Symbionese Liberation Army kidnappers left an indelible mark on one Inglewood streetlight.\n\nPlus\, we’ll look at two-high profile instances of Los Angeles artists using historic streetlights in sculpture. While Chris Burden’s “Urban Light” (2008) on LACMA’s Wilshire Boulevard side is museum director Michael Govan’s signature achievement and a favorite spot for social media selfies\, the piece is strikingly similar to Sheila Klein’s “Vermonica” (1993)\, that artist’s response to the 1992 Rodney King uprising placed in one of the looted East Hollywood mini-malls. \nFor 25 years\, Vermonica enlivened the commercial streetscape and sparked conversation and discovery. But in 2017\, “Vermonica” was mysteriously removed from the parking lot at Santa Monica and Vermont with no notice to the artist or public. Soon after\, its vintage streetlight components were reinstalled in front of the nearby Bureau of Street Lighting HQ\, in a different configuration that the artist repudiated. \nAs longtime Vermonica fans with a special interest in public policy and the strange workings of Los Angeles city government\, we worked closely with Sheila Klein to figure out what had happened to her sculpture\, then lobbied the city to support a proper reinstallation and to add “Vermonica” to the civic art collection. “Vermonica” can now be found on Santa Monica Boulevard at Lyman Place\, opposite the Cahuenga Branch Library. This relocation was completed with help and cooperation from Bureau of Street Lighting\, City of Los Angeles and Amador Architects. \nSheila Klein says: “‘Vermonica’ is a love letter to the city of L.A. that would not have been delivered without the support of Esotouric’s Kim Cooper and Richard Schave. This work was originally created in 1993 to look at the sculptural aspect of streetlights and it illuminated a hopeful civilized path forward for Angelenos out of the trauma of the 1992 uprising. It seems appropriate that ‘Vermonica’ is shining again as the city grapples with the challenges of COVID\, unrest\, inequality and climate change. Domesticating the street\, makes the city a place you want to be.”   \nAnd Mike the Poet\, educator\, author of the recent Letters to My City and civic advocate\, will lift our spirits with a poem celebrating the restored Vermonica. \nThis webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with rare photos that will the history of Los Angeles streetlights to life. And you’ll find the look of an Esotouric webinar is a little different than your standard dry Zoom session\, with lively interactive graphics courtesy of the mmhmm app.   \nSheila Klein will join us to talk about creating the original temporary “Vermonica” installation and the strange path to reinventing it as a permanent piece of public art\, and will answer your questions\, so get ready to be a part of the show. \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week. Please note: the 2-hour running time is just an estimate\, and we often run long because the stories take on a life of their own. You can always come back and watch the last part of the webinar recording later. \nSo\, tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious. \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \n\n\nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one another on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging even deeper into the secret heart of the city they love.\n \nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion.
URL:https://esotouric.com/event/los-angeles-streetlights/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210819T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210819T220000
DTSTAMP:20260512T162821
CREATED:20210725T210203Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210910T175841Z
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SUMMARY:Miniature Los Angeles: Meet the Artists Who Craft Tiny Versions of the Historic Landmarks Angelenos Love Webinar
DESCRIPTION:This is a recording of a webinar that previously streamed live. You can purchase a ticket to watch the recording\, but you won’t be able to participate in the live chat or Q&A.  \n\n\n\nTo sign up\, enter your name and email address and click the “Buy Ticket” button above. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, for an immersive cultural history and crafting webinar celebrating local artists who shrink beloved Southland architectural landmarks down to pocket size for fun\, love and profit. \nModel making from commercial plastic kits has long been a popular hobby\, but in recent years there’s been an explosion of scratch built miniature production by Los Angeles artists who specialize in replicating vintage signs and buildings. Fans can vicariously enjoy watching the tiny treasures take shape on social media\, buy a finished model\, or even commission something completely original for their own collection. \nIn this webinar\, we’ll meet some of the city’s most prolific miniature model makers to learn about their passion for replicating local landmarks both lost and still standing\, their working methods\, inspirations and research techniques\, and some of the interesting experiences they’ve had while crafting and sharing L.A. history that fits on a tabletop. \nOur special guest miniaturists are: \nMike Battle (@mikesbattle)— When Rochester native and “The Simpson’s” show color modelist Mike Battle started planning his wedding to Simi Valley’s Kelly Brooks\, the couple cooked up a plan for him to build miniature L.A. and Rochester vintage signs as centerpieces for their guests’ tables. After the ceremony was postponed due to the pandemic\, Mike just kept making more elaborate miniature places that have significance to the couple’s relationship\, and taking the illuminated finished pieces out for night time photo ops with the originals that survive. Local landmarks that light up like real neon include Burbank’s Safari Inn motel\, Felix Chevrolet\, Samuel’s Florist\, Larry’s Chili Dog\, Compton Shoe Repair\, the Brown Derby and\, of course\, NoHo’s towering and terrifying Circus Liquor clown. \nChris Casady – Chris is a retired Hollywood animator and Los Angeles native with a soft spot for L.A.’s cultural landmarks. After attending local California Institute of the Arts as a member of its first student body in the early ‘70s he lucked into a position as a Rotoscope artist at Industrial Light and Magic\, then in Van Nuys\, working on the first Star Wars movie\, as his first job. This catapulted Chris into a career in “special effects" and he built his own studio patterned after the one he worked in at ILM\, specializing in optical effects\, hand drawn animation and rotoscope techniques\, all before the advent of CGI. Chris worked on many iconic movies of the 1980s like TRON\, The Empire Strikes Back\, Galaxina\, Battlestar Galactica\, Airplane!\, Piranha\, My Science Project\, Short Circuit\, Beetlejuice\, Dreamscape\, Something Wicked This Way Comes and The Running Man\, His directing credits include an animated music video for the Beastie Boys\, and a duet video between Eddie Murphy and Michael Jackson. His animated film\, Pencil Dance\, won awards at festivals in Canada\, France\, Japan and Italy. His film Puddle Jumper was shown at MOMA\, NY and the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. He was a judge at the Ottawa International Animation Festival in 1990\, where his film won first place in 1988. But for this webinar\, Chris is going to talk about his personal work in Computer-Generated Imagery (CGI). In the mid 1990s\, Chris bought a $100 software program for the Macintosh computer called Bryce\, after Bryce Canyon. They called it a landscape generator\, but you could do simple modeling with it. He became obsessed with this program because it was so easy to use and delivered great results. Driving around Los Angeles\, Chris would see things that looked like good Bryce modeling challenges. He couldn’t resist making his own CGI versions of favorite landmarks\, and Bryce delivered great results. Chris will share a selection of these virtual landmarks\, including Griffith Park Observatory\, the Shakespeare Bridge\, Krotona Apartments and the original\, since demolished\, circular Velaslavasay Panorama in Hollywood. Chris used Bryce obsessively until around 2006. The program was discontinued in 2010. \nC.C. de Vere (@littlelostangeles)—Historic preservation advocate and chronicler of the early French history of Los Angeles through her Frenchtown Confidential blog\, C.C.’s Little Lost Angeles series honors architecturally and culturally significant structures that should never have been demolished. Among her recent builds are Henry’s Tacos\, Mrs. Von’s tiki hut from Clifton’s Pacific Seas\, the streamline moderne Yolk store in Silver Lake\, the 1904 Tabor farmhouse as featured in the Little Rascals and Ray Bradbury’s house encased in a vintage television set (now on permanent display at the writer’s local Palms Rancho Park Library). C.C. is currently working on The Brown Derby. She also makes illuminated Rainbow Bar and Grill signs and tiny programmatic lemons and Tail o’ the Pup models.   \nBruce Heller (@cornerstonebrickdesigns)—A professional Lego block artisan and fan of the architecture of John Parkinson\, Bruce has crafted meticulous miniature replicas of two of the architect’s iconic Los Angeles landmarks: City Hall and Bullocks Wilshire (both of which have been exhibited on site)\, with Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and Union Station in the works. Bruce’s City Hall was honored with the Best Microscale award at the 2016 BrickCon convention. He has made a microscale LAX Theme Building from 47 Lego pieces\, and builds custom replicas of private homes on commission. His Lego miniature of the historic house where Brentwood Sunshine Preschool operates was the grand prize in their fundraiser auction. \nKieran Wright (@smallscalela)—A newcomer to miniature model making and to Los Angeles\, the New Zealand native took up the craft in earnest after he was laid off from his travel marketing job early in the pandemic. Kieran’s models honor iconic Los Angeles businesses and cultural touchstones\, and have been offered as prizes in charitable fundraisers. His miniatures include the Black Cat gay bar\, Philippe The Original\, Fugetsu-do Sweet Shop\, Rae’s coffee shop\, Morgan Camera Shop\, The Apple Pan\, Taix French Restaurant\, Tiki-Ti\, Beverly Cinema\, Tail o’ the Pup\, the Hollywood Bowl’s curved clock sign\, the Frolic Room and Fry’s Electronics flying saucer crash entryway. \nDonna Williams – After graduation from Claremont Graduate University with an MFA in sculpture\, Donna translated her experience in the fabrication and repair of three-dimensional art objects to establish Williams Art Conservation\, Inc.\,  a private art conservation studio located in Hollywood\, where she has lived since 1979.   Over twenty years of private practice has given Donna  a wide variety of hands-on experiences with many kinds of art objects.  She has travelled the world to treat and maintain objects owned by museums as well as private\, government and corporate collections\, and has worked with many well-known artists\, including Chris Burden\, Donald Judd and Jaume Plensa.  Donna has experience with every scale of three-dimensional art\, from twenty-foot-tall Calder stabiles to microscopic fragments of Roman glass.   When Hollywood Heritage leased a retail space and installed Hollywood in Miniature\, as a board member\, Donna assisted in formulating plans for its conservation and restoration\, and the challenge and thrill of bringing this historically accurate model of Hollywood’s core from the 1930s\, into the present day. \nAlso joining us is architectural historian Nathan Marsak — author of Bunker Hill Los Angeles: Essence of Sunshine and Noir and Bunker Noir! to share the curious history and educational possibilities of the city of Los Angeles’ famous 3-D Downtown Los Angeles architectural model\, a hands-on urban planning tool developed under the Works Progress Administration that is on permanent display at the Natural History Museum.   \nThis webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with rare photos that will bring the work of the city’s miniature architectural crafting community to life. And you’ll find the look of an Esotouric webinar is a little different than your standard dry Zoom session\, with lively interactive graphics courtesy of the mmhmm app.   \nDuring the presentation\, our guests will answer your questions\, so get ready to be a part of the show. \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week. Please note: the 2-hour running time is just an estimate\, and we often run long because the stories take on a life of their own. You can always come back and watch the last part of the webinar recording later. \nSo\, tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious. \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \n\n\nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one another on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging even deeper into the secret heart of the city they love.\n \nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion.
URL:https://esotouric.com/event/miniature-los-angeles/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210529T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210529T133000
DTSTAMP:20260512T162821
CREATED:20210515T005100Z
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SUMMARY:Esotouric Presents: The Treasures and Tragedies of Elysian Park webinar
DESCRIPTION:This is a recording of a webinar that previously streamed live. You can purchase a ticket to watch the recording\, but you won’t be able to participate in the live chat or Q&A. This recording will be available through Saturday\, June 5.  \nPlease join us on Saturdays at noon Los Angeles time for a new live webinar. \n\n\n\nTo sign up\, enter your name and email address and click the “Buy Ticket” button above. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \nIf you asked a random sampling of Angelenos to name a mountainous municipal green space\, most would say Griffith Park. But its smaller easterly neighbor Elysian Park\, ten years older than Griffith\, is equally packed with history\, intrigue\, beauty and tragedy. \nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, for an immersive webinar exploring the cultural\, natural\, redevelopment\, public policy\, art and architectural history of Elysian Park\, and the fascinating characters who have made history within its 600 acres.   \nFeatured on this webinar: \n• The story of the dedicated activist group Citizen’s Committee To Save Elysian Park (established 1965) and how founder Grace E. Simons used her experience as a journalist to turn neighbors into bare-knuckles public policy warriors protecting their beloved park from City Hall land grabs. \n• A virtual tour of  Francios Scotti’s sprawling faux bois waterfall gardens (1937)\, a city landmark hidden inside  the Police Academy. Joining us is Terry Eagan\, Southern California’s premier craftsman and restorer of faux bois\, who will walk us through Scotti’s masterpiece and explain the tools and techniques of this traditional decorative landscaping technique. \n• The story of how Barlow Respiratory Hospital’s historic campus\, a city landmark\, has served the community through more than a century of public health crises\, from its founding as a TB sanitarium through establishment of California’s first AIDS hospice and our current pandemic. \n• All about the long-forgotten World War I Victory Memorial Grove at Lilac Terrace and its recent restoration and reactivation. Joining us is historian and advocate Courtland Jindra\, who studied the history and got city approval to bring in a volunteer crew to bring the lost memorial back from decades of neglect and vandalism. \n• The grim tale of the city’s eminent domain seizure of Chavez Ravine for a failed public housing project\, and the subsequent eviction of the remaining families in 1959.  Our special guests are Bunker Hill redevelopment historian Nathan Marsak and Gordon Pattison\, whose family was displaced from Bunker Hill in the 1960s. Gordon will give his evictee’s eye view of the Chavez Ravine tragedy and discuss the long term effect of displacement on communities. \nAnd more Elysian Park lore to be revealed! This webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with rare photos that will bring the history of Elysian Park. And you’ll find the look of an Esotouric webinar is a little different than your standard dry Zoom session\, with lively interactive graphics courtesy of the mmhmm app.   \nAfter the presentations\, Kim\, Richard\, Terry\, Courtland\, Gordon and Nathan will answer your questions\, so get ready to be a part of the show. \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week. Please note: the 2-hour running time is just an estimate\, and we often run long because the stories take on a life of their own. You can always come back and watch the last part of the webinar recording later. \nSo\, tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious. \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \n\nAbout Terry Eagan: Terry is the artisan of the Faux Bois Concrete Restoration Project at The Huntington Library\, Art Collections\, and Botanical Gardens. Visit his website. \nAbout Courtland Jindra: An early campaigner in California for the centennial of WW1\, Courtland Jindra is an amateur historian and volunteer since 2014 for the United States World War I Centennial Commission.  His “Great War” interest is largely focused on America’s contribution to and remembrance of it.  Delving into Los Angeles Times’ archives\, Jindra has located numerous memorials to the war in Southern California. He is a passionate advocate for highlighting their importance\, and through them the war effort writ large. Learn more about his Victory Memorial Grove preservation campaign. \nAbout Gordon Pattison: Gordon Pattison is a native son of Bunker Hill. His family owned the Salt Box and the Castle\, the last two homes standing after the neighborhood was cleared for redevelopment. To learn more\, see Gordon’s LAVA Sunday Salon presentation Old Bunker Hill: One Family’s Perspective. Gordon can also be found talking about Angels Flight Railway on Off-Ramp\, visiting the few remaining pieces of his family’s houses at Heritage Square Museum\, on KCET’s Lost L.A. series Lost Hills episode\, L.A. As Subject’s funicular feature and remembering novelist John Fante at his square dedication and atop Bunker Hill. He can also be found on Esotouric’s The Lowdown on Downtown tours\, sharing memories of lost Bunker Hill. \nAbout Nathan Marsak: Nathan is the author of the books “Bunker Hill Los Angeles: Essence of Sunshine and Noir” and “Los Angeles Neon” and can be found spitting tacks in the character of The Cranky Preservationist. His blog is Bunker Hill Los Angeles. \n\nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one another on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging even deeper into the secret heart of the city they love.\n \nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210522T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210522T133000
DTSTAMP:20260512T162821
CREATED:20210513T003411Z
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SUMMARY:Precious Relics of Victorian Los Angeles Webinar
DESCRIPTION:This is a recording of a webinar that previously streamed live. You can purchase a ticket to watch the recording\, but you won’t be able to participate in the live chat or Q&A. This recording will be available through Saturday\, May 29.  \n\n\n\nTo sign up\, enter your name and email address and click the “Buy Ticket” button above. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \nThe greatest historic preservation loss in Los Angeles was the 1960s eminent domain seizure of Bunker Hill\, with almost 150 acres of homes\, hotels and businesses demolished for a failed redevelopment scheme. While City Hall smeared the doomed neighborhood as a blighted slum\, 21st century Angelenos look longingly at photographs of Victorian buildings like The Castle and The Melrose Hotel and lament all we lost. \nWe can’t return to old Bunker Hill except in our imaginations\, but some remarkable pockets of Victorian residential architecture still can be found in the historic neighborhoods of Los Angeles and in the outdoor museum Heritage Square. \nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, for an immersive webinar celebrating some of the most beautiful and fascinating Victorian Los Angeles survivors\, and the dedicated preservationists who restore and bring the histories of these special buildings to life.   \nFeatured on this webinar: \n• A virtual visit to Carroll Avenue in the city’s first Historic Preservation Overlay Zone (HPOZ)\, Angelino Heights\, where we’ll meet Kevin Segall and Steph Rogers\, who are currently restoring The Historic J.B. Winston House (Joseph Cather Newsom\, 1889\, Los Angeles Historical-Cultural Monument No. 189)\, and historian Nathan Marsak will tell the story of the Newsom Brothers as builders and promoters of a highly recognizable style of Victorian residential architecture. \n• We’ll talk about Heritage Square\, an outdoor museum created to house architecturally significant Victorian houses whose owners wanted to redevelop the land on which they sat. You’ll hear how this narrow strip of city-owned property along the Arroyo Seco Parkway was populated with refugee landmarks\, and Gordon Pattison shares the tragic tale of his family’s two Bunker Hill Victorians that were moved to Heritage Square only to be lost to arson. Plus highlights from Kevin and Stephanie’s wedding there! \n• Nathan Marsak will provide an overview of the work of influential Los Angeles architect R.B. Young\, and Dydia DeLyser and Paul Greenstein will share their experience restoring and obtaining historic designation for their Queen Anne-style Young-Gribling Residence (R.B. Young\, 1885\, Los Angeles Historical-Cultural Monument No. 1017). The home is the architect’s only surviving residence and a prominent landmark perched high above Lincoln Heights. What used to stand above it on the hill will amaze you! \n• Plus a virtual visit to the remarkably intact National Register South Bonnie Brae Tract in the Pico-Union neighborhood. \nAnd more Victorian survivors to be revealed! This webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with rare photos that will bring the architectural treasures of Los Angeles to life. And you’ll find the look of an Esotouric webinar is a little different than your standard dry Zoom session\, with lively interactive graphics courtesy of the mmhmm app.   \nAfter the presentations\, Kim\, Richard\, Kevin\, Steph\, Paul\, Dydia\, Nathan and Gordon will answer your questions\, so get ready to be a part of the show. \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week. Please note: the 2-hour running time is just an estimate\, and we often run long because the stories take on a life of their own. You can always come back and watch the last part of the webinar recording later. \nSo\, tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious. \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \n\nAbout Dydia DeLyser:  Dr. Dydia DeLyser is a feminist cultural-historical geographer and associate professor in the Department of Geography & the Environment at California State University\, Fullerton. Her research focuses on issues of landscape\, memory\, and preservation in 19th-21st century California. Her book\, Ramona Memories: Tourism and the Shaping of Southern California won the 2005 Globe Book Award and she has published some fifty scholarly articles and book chapters. Her research is often auto-ethnographic and participatory – drawing herself and her community together in her research – as in her most recent book\, Neon: A Light History\, co-authored with her husband Paul Greenstein (who makes and restores neon signs)\, for which a portion of profits benefit the Museum of Neon Art on whose Board DeLyser serves. She is a native Angeleno\, and lives in Victorian house in Lincoln Heights together with Paul and their fox terrier Archie Leach.   \nAbout Paul Greenstein: Paul Greenstein is an independent scholar of Los Angeles and California history. He is lead author (with Lionel Rolfe and Nigey Lennon) of the only book about Llano del Rio’s history\, “Bread an Hyacinths: The Rise and Fall of Utopian Los Angeles\,” and has been leading tours of the Llano area since the 1980s. He often integrates his research with his expertise in other areas: he has restored dozens of antique cars and motorcycles\, and has published articles about those vehicles and the restoration process. His most recent book (co-authored with Dydia DeLyser)\, draws from Paul’s forty-five years of experience making an restoring neon signs in the first book to tell neon’s history through a focus on Los Angeles  The book was written to benefit the Museum of Neon Art in the pandemic\, and is available on their website:  https://store.neonmona.org/collections/books-media/products/preorder-book-neon-a-light-history \nAbout Nathan Marsak: Nathan is the author of the books “Bunker Hill Los Angeles: Essence of Sunshine and Noir” and “Los Angeles Neon” and can be found spitting tacks in the character of The Cranky Preservationist. His blog is http://bunkerhilllosangeles.com. \nAbout Gordon Pattison: Gordon Pattison is a native son of Bunker Hill. His family owned the Salt Box and the Castle\, the last two homes standing after the neighborhood was cleared for redevelopment. To learn more\, see Gordon’s LAVA Sunday Salon presentation Old Bunker Hill: One Family’s Perspective. Gordon can also be found talking about Angels Flight Railway on Off-Ramp\, visiting the few remaining pieces of his family’s houses at Heritage Square Museum\, on KCET’s Lost L.A. series Lost Hills episode\, L.A. As Subject’s funicular feature and remembering novelist John Fante at his square dedication and atop Bunker Hill. He can also be found on Esotouric’s The Lowdown on Downtown tours\, sharing memories of lost Bunker Hill. \nAbout Kevin Segall and Steph Rogers: They are presently restoring and researching the history of Joseph Cather Newsom’s 1889 J.B. Winston House on Carroll Avenue. Follow their preservation journey online at http://historicwinstonhouse.com and on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/historicwinstonhouse) and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/historicwinstonhouse) \n\nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one another on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging even deeper into the secret heart of the city they love.\n \nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion.
URL:https://esotouric.com/event/victorian-los-angeles/
LOCATION:
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210515T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210515T133000
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CREATED:20210429T220613Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210515T235453Z
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SUMMARY:A Gallery of Downtown Los Angeles Artists Celebrated and Obscure Webinar
DESCRIPTION:This is a recording of a webinar that previously streamed live. You can purchase a ticket to watch the recording\, but you won’t be able to participate in the live chat or Q&A. This recording will be available through Saturday\, May 22.  \n\nPlease join us on Saturdays at noon Los Angeles time for a new live webinar. \n\n\n\nTo sign up\, enter your name and email address and click the “Buy Ticket” button above. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \n\nLong before the industrial neighborhood between Little Tokyo and the Los Angeles River was discovered by loft dwellers who made it into an Arts District\, the historic center of the city has attracted visual artists. Some were commissioned to decorate public spaces\, others were drawn to the decaying Victorian neighborhood of Bunker Hill. Some were highly skilled professionals\, others inspired amateurs and street hustlers. The work they made here speaks to a lost Los Angeles\, and a rich creative history. \nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, for an immersive cultural history webinar celebrating the visual artists who lived and worked in Downtown Los Angeles\, and the compelling work they left behind. \nFeatured artists include: \n\nLeo Politi\, whose brightly colored paintings of Bunker Hill mansions\, Angels Flight Railway and colorful local characters beguiled preservationists and the children who adored his picture books and Olvera Street murals.\nEinar Petersen\, the European trained church decorator who was the Clifton’s Cafeteria house muralist\, transforming generic restaurant dining rooms into fantastic three dimensional environments inspired by the tropics and redwood forests\, only more magical.\nHugo Ballin\, whose lobby murals for the Los Angeles Times\, the Edison Building and other prominent landmarks established jewel-tone art deco as the signature Downtown corporate style.\nKay Martin\, the plein air painter who was driven to document Bunker Hill before redevelopment\, and who donated hundreds of paintings and drawings to the citizens of Los Angeles with the instructions that they be kept on public view—which they were for years\, before disappearing into the Natural History Museum’s storage vaults.\n\nAnd more surprising art lore to be revealed! This webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with rare photos that will bring the art history of Downtown Los Angeles to life. And you’ll find the look of an Esotouric webinar is a little different than your standard dry Zoom session\, with lively interactive graphics courtesy of the mmhmm app.   \nAfter the presentation\, Kim and Richard will answer your questions\, so get ready to be a part of the show. \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week. Please note: the 2-hour running time is just an estimate\, and we often run long because the stories take on a life of their own. You can always come back and watch the last part of the webinar recording later. \nSo\, tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious. \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \n\n\nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one another on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging even deeper into the secret heart of the city they love.\n \nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion.
URL:https://esotouric.com/event/downtown-la-artists/
LOCATION:
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210508T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210508T133000
DTSTAMP:20260512T162821
CREATED:20210423T222024Z
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SUMMARY:Fourth & Main\, Downtown Los Angeles’ Most Fascinating Intersection Webinar
DESCRIPTION:Every tourist in Los Angeles knows to visit Hollywood and Vine on the Walk of Fame. But when Los Angeles was young\, the corner a visitor must not miss was Fourth and Main\, in the heart of Skid Row. \nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, for an immersive cultural\, culinary\, erotic and architectural history webinar exploring a century’s lore unfolding at and around one incredible intersection. You’ll be amazed by all that happened here! \nFeatured topics include: \n\nA virtual tour of the public and off-limits spaces of the 1896 Van Nuys/Barclay\, the oldest continuously operating hotel in the city\, and site of a unique L-shaped subterranean service tunnel beneath the sidewalk.\nTales of the Follies burlesque house\, including legendary performances\, vice busts and a failed historic preservation effort.\nA peep inside Good Fellows Grotto\, Downtown’s great lost surf and turf restaurant.\nThe soaring Westminster Hotel\, its legendary Hippodrome Theatre and the block’s strange afterlife as a boxing gym and parking lot.\nWoody Guthrie Square\, the folk singer’s deep ties to the neighborhood\, and why the historic marker might be in the wrong place.\nThe CRA redevelopment scheme that gave us The Old Bank District and Art Walk.\nPlus the Skid Row Slasher serial killing spree\, a case with fascinating affinities to the Jack the Ripper case in Victorian London.\n\nAnd much more to be revealed! This webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with rare photos that will bring the history of 4th & Main in Downtown Los Angeles to life. And you’ll find the look of an Esotouric webinar is a little different than your standard dry Zoom session\, with lively interactive graphics courtesy of the mmhmm app.   \nAfter the presentation\, Kim and Richard will answer your questions\, so get ready to be a part of the show. \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week. Please note: the 2-hour running time is just an estimate\, and we often run long because the stories take on a life of their own. You can always come back and watch the last part of the webinar recording later. \nSo\, tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious. \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \n\nTo sign up\, enter your name and email address and click the “Buy Ticket” button below. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \n\n\n\n\nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one another on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging even deeper into the secret heart of the city they love.\n \nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion.
URL:https://esotouric.com/event/fourth-main/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210501T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210501T133000
DTSTAMP:20260512T162821
CREATED:20210416T225754Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210502T050243Z
UID:10000459-1619870400-1619875800@esotouric.com
SUMMARY:The Rough Road to Llano del Rio\, L.A.'s Utopian Colony in the Antelope Valley Webinar
DESCRIPTION:This is a recording of a webinar that previously streamed live. You can purchase a ticket to watch the recording\, but you won’t be able to participate in the live chat or Q&A. This recording will be available through Saturday\, May 8.  \nPlease join us on Saturdays at noon Los Angeles time for a new live webinar. \n\n\n\nTo sign up\, enter your name and email address and click the “Buy Ticket” button above. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \nIf you’ve ever driven the Pearblossom Highway (138) between Palmdale and Victorville\, you probably wondered about the tall river rock pillars standing near the hamlet of Llano. These are the ruins of a hotel that was the public center of an extraordinary but short-lived Southern California community\, Llano del Rio. \nLlano del Rio was a hard work socialist co-operative colony founded by the lawyer and philosopher Job Harriman\, who very nearly became Mayor of Los Angeles in 1911. On May Day\, 1914\, Harriman’s friends moved en masse to the Antelope Valley\, settling a 2000-acre village site along progressive\, socialist ideals. \nAt the time\, the average daily wage for skilled labor was $2.50 for a 10 hour\, 6 day week. Llano Del Rio promised better wages and working conditions: $4.00 a day for an 8 hour\, 5 day a week. Plus\, colonists had an ownership stake. \nThe settlers built a printing press\, planted fruit orchards\, alfalfa\, raised chickens and rabbits. They established a dairy\, fish hatchery and a lime kiln for making their own cement. But it wasn’t all hard work. They had the best baseball team in the Antelope Valley\, a mandolin orchestra and wild weekly dances which drew attendees from surrounding communities. \nAt its height in 1916\, the colony had a thousand members and was a flourishing communitarian experiment. But the landscape was rough and unforgiving\, and in late 1917\, the colonists abandoned their desert home\, with many continuing on to New Llano\, Louisiana. \nThe evidence of their high desert adventure still survives\, in visible ruins and less obvious ways. \nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, and their special guests Paul Greenstein (co-author of “Bread & Hyacinths: The Rise and Fall of Utopian Los Angeles”) and Bob Wolfe (Los Angeles legal historian)\, for an immersive exploration of the Llano experiment\, and the fascinating era in Los Angeles politics and culture and the legendary legal battles that inspired its creation. \nIn 1915 Los Angeles\, as today\, City Hall was wracked by accusations of rampant civic corruption. Progressives screamed that somebody had to stop L.A.’s relentless hunger for development\, fueled by co-opting resources from disenfranchised communities \nAngelenos were starting to question the perceived wisdom that what was good for the wealthiest residents of the metropolis was good for Los Angeles. Was there too high a cost to fellow humans and to the natural world in this incessant drive to manifest destiny? General Harrison Gray Otis\, publisher of the Los Angeles Times certainly thought the answer was no. His newspaper sold readers on the merits of annexing the Owens River\, the evils of unions and the need to protect the “nation’s white spot\,” the City of Angels. \nThen early on October 1\, 1910\, as the Los Angeles Times print shop buzzed before press time\, the newspaper building exploded. 21 workers were killed in the blast\, more than 100 injured. General Otis called it the “crime of the century\,” and vowed revenge. Private detective William J. Burns launched a nationwide search for those responsible. \nIn April 1911\, brothers J.B. and J.J. McNamara\, members of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers’ in-house bomb squad\, were arrested and returned to Los Angeles for trial. \nIron Workers President Frank Ryan asked Clarence Darrow to defend the McNamaras\, who faced the death penalty. Darrow was a labor hero for his successful defense of “Big Bill” Haywood in 1907. Joining Darrow for the defense was attorney Job Harriman\, who was also the Socialist candidate for the Mayorship of Los Angeles. \nThe stage was set for a battle for the soul and future of the city\, and the creation of a fascinating socialist experiment as far from General Otis as someone could settle while still calling themselves an Angeleno: Llano del Rio. \nAfter the presentation\, Kim\, Richard\, Paul and Bob will answer your questions\, so get ready to be a part of the show. \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week. Please note: the 2-hour running time is just an estimate\, and we often run long because the stories take on a life of their own. You can always come back and watch the last part of the webinar recording later. \nSo\, tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious. \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \n\n\nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one another on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging even deeper into the secret heart of the city they love.\n \nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion. \n\nAbout Paul Greenstein: Paul is author of “Bread & Hyacinths: The Rise and Fall of Utopian Los Angeles\,” a book about Llano Del Rio. In addition to owning a 1913 Metz roadster\, the kind of car that Llano colonists might have turned over upon their arrival\, he is a designer\, fabricator\, installer and expert on all things neon and Los Angeles. \nAbout Bob Wolfe: Bob Wolfe\, a native Angeleno\, is an appellate lawyer and a board member of the California Supreme Court Historical Society\, Public Counsel\, the L.A. Metro Community Advisory Committee and Hillel at UCLA. Bob conducts occasional legal history walking tours of Downtown Los Angeles\, and has written numerous articles on California legal history for publications\, including Los Angeles Lawyer\, Orange County Lawyer\, the CSCHS Review and California Litigation\, and served on the statewide board for the centennial celebration of the California Court of Appeal.
URL:https://esotouric.com/event/llano-del-rio/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210424T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210424T133000
DTSTAMP:20260512T162821
CREATED:20210409T223323Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210425T001306Z
UID:10000458-1619265600-1619271000@esotouric.com
SUMMARY:A Downtown Los Angeles Lovers’ Treasure Hunt Webinar
DESCRIPTION:This is a recording of a webinar that previously streamed live. You can purchase a ticket to watch the recording\, but you won’t be able to participate in the live chat or Q&A. This recording will be available through Saturday\, May 1.  \nPlease join us on Saturdays at noon Los Angeles time for a new live webinar. \n\n\n\nTo sign up\, enter your name and email address and click the “Buy Ticket” button above. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \nIt isn’t always fun or pretty\, but Los Angeles is probably the most interesting city in America—and Downtown is the most interesting part of Los Angeles. \nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, for an immersive cultural\, architectural and infrastructural history webinar that peels back the layers of time\, urban decay and real estate marketing slogans to reveal the real treasures and secrets of #DTLA. \nEven if you’re a seasoned Downtown explorer or resident\, you’ll find some mind blowing surprises hidden in plain sight as two passionate local historians share some of their favorite discoveries\, sleuthed out through archival and newspaper research\, hands-on urban exploration and conversations with colorful old timers. \nFeatured topics include: \n\nThe surprising origins of the Jesus Saves neon signs\nA basement speakeasy with century old erotic graffiti\nTerrazzo sidewalks and amethyst glass prisms\nL.A.’s original Italian espresso bar in St. Vincent’s Court\nLost bookstores and world class magazine stands\nNewspaper vendors and boot blacks\nAn all-steel Log Cabin and its short order innovations\nA.F.I.’s nearly forgotten Best Remaining Seats Broadway film festival\n\nAnd much more to be revealed! This webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with rare photos that will bring Downtown Los Angeles’ cultural and architectural history to life. And you’ll find the look of an Esotouric webinar is a little different than your standard dry Zoom session\, with lively interactive graphics courtesy of the mmhmm app. \nAfter the presentation\, Kim and Richard will answer your questions\, so get ready to be a part of the show. \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week. Please note: the 2-hour running time is just an estimate\, and we often run long because the stories take on a life of their own. You can always come back and watch the last part of the webinar recording later. \nSo\, tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious. \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \n\n\nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one another on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging even deeper into the secret heart of the city they love.\n \nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion.
URL:https://esotouric.com/event/downtown-la-treasure-hunt/
LOCATION:
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210417T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210417T133000
DTSTAMP:20260512T162821
CREATED:20210402T235217Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210417T232322Z
UID:10000457-1618660800-1618666200@esotouric.com
SUMMARY:The Wonders and Weirdness of Wilshire Boulevard webinar
DESCRIPTION:This is a recording of a webinar that previously streamed live. You can purchase a ticket to watch the recording\, but you won’t be able to participate in the live chat or Q&A. This recording will be available through midnight on Saturday\, April 24.  \nPlease join us on Saturdays at noon Los Angeles time for a new live webinar. \n\n\n\nTo sign up\, enter your name and email address and click the “Buy Ticket” button above. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \nWilshire is among the most beautiful boulevards in Los Angeles\, and it’s richly layered in history\, oddities and historic preservation lore\, too. \nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, for a time travel trip along Wilshire Boulevard\, from Downtown to the May Company terminus of the Miracle Mile\, as they dig into the archives and share a selection of offbeat historic crimes\, architectural wonders\, urban planning and retail history lore. \nFeatured are immersive visits to four iconic and fascinating landmarks: \n\nBullocks Wilshire (John and Donald Parkinson\, 1929)\nWilshire Tower / Silverwood’s (Gilbert Stanley Underwood\, 1929)\nFarmers Insurance Building (Beelman\, Walker\, Eisen & Spackler\, 1937/1949)\nScottish Rite Temple (Millard Sheets\, 1961)\n\nPlus we’ll explore the Linear City concept\, trace the development of the Miracle Mile\, dip into prehistory for some tar pit surprises and highlight notable historic preservations wins and failures—including a tribute to the recently demolished Los Angeles County Museum of Art (William L. Pereira\, 1965) \nThis webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with rare photos that will bring Wilshire Boulevard’s cultural and architectural history to life. And you’ll find the look of an Esotouric webinar is a little different than your standard dry Zoom session\, with lively interactive graphics courtesy of the mmhmm app. \nAfter the presentation\, Kim and Richard will answer your questions\, so get ready to be a part of the show. \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week. Please note: the 2-hour running time is just an estimate\, and we often run long because the stories take on a life of their own. You can always come back and watch the last part of the webinar recording later. \nSo\, tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious. \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \n\n\nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one another on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging even deeper into the secret heart of the city they love.\n \nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion.
URL:https://esotouric.com/event/wonders-weirdness-wilshire/
LOCATION:
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210410T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210410T133000
DTSTAMP:20260512T162821
CREATED:20210326T234840Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210326T234840Z
UID:10000456-1618056000-1618061400@esotouric.com
SUMMARY:The Crimes and Oddities of L.A.’s Sunset Boulevard webinar
DESCRIPTION:Many years ago\, cultural historian Kim Cooper began collecting offbeat news stories to feature on her 1947project blog. As the blog grew and evolved into Esotouric’s true crime history tours\, certain neighborhoods positively glowed with layer upon layer of weird lore. And one of the strangest parts of Los Angeles was centered around the Sunset Junction neighborhood\, a pedestrian friendly commercial corridor nestled between East Hollywood\, Los Feliz\, Silverlake\, Echo Park\, Victor and Angelino Heights. \nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, for a time travel trip on the dark side of Sunset Boulevard\, as they dig into the archives and share a selection of weird historic crimes and oddities you won’t find featured in the tourist guides. From the Bat Man’s hidden love nook to the exploding gun shop horror\, the deadly fortune teller to witch woman’s art inferno\, the jail-themed chicken joint to the decaying giant elephants of Babylon\, you’ll thrill and shudder to tales of oddball antics strung along the spine of Sunset Boulevard. \nThis webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with rare photos that will bring true crime history to life. And you’ll find the look of an Esotouric webinar is a little different than your standard dry Zoom session\, with lively interactive graphics courtesy of the mmhmm app. \nAfter the presentation\, Kim and Richard will answer your questions\, so get ready to be a part of the show. \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week. Please note: the 2-hour running time is just an estimate\, and we often run long because the stories take on a life of their own. You can always come back and watch the last part of the webinar recording later. \nSo\, tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious. \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \n\nTo sign up\, enter your name and email address and click the “Buy Ticket” button below. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \n\n\n\n\nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one another on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging even deeper into the secret heart of the city they love.\n \nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion.
URL:https://esotouric.com/event/crimes-oddities-sunset-blvd/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210403T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210403T133000
DTSTAMP:20260512T162821
CREATED:20210319T232623Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210404T012610Z
UID:10000455-1617451200-1617456600@esotouric.com
SUMMARY:John Fante’s Bunker Hill and Downtown Los Angeles Literary Time Machine Webinar
DESCRIPTION:This is a recording of a webinar that previously streamed live. You can purchase a ticket to watch the recording\, but you won’t be able to participate in the live chat or Q&A. This recording will be available through midnight on Saturday\, April 10.  \nPlease join us on Saturdays at noon Los Angeles time for a new live webinar. \n\n\n\nTo sign up\, enter your name and email address and click the “Buy Ticket” button above. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \nBefore Jack Kerouac\, before Charles Bukowski\, there was John Fante\, author of “Ask the Dust” (1939) and three other novels featuring Downtown Los Angeles and Arturo Bandini\, his outspoken\, hot tempered\, sentimental\, ambitious and unforgettable alter ego. \nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, for a celebration of the great L.A. novelist John Fante\, and the historic neighborhoods and offbeat characters that inspired him. Our special guests are the author’s children Vickie Fante Cohen and Jim Fante\, Pershing Square public artist Barbara McCarren\, Fante scholar Matteo Cacco and Bunker Hill native son Gordon Pattison. \nIn this webinar\, which includes virtual visits to many Downtown landmarks extant and demolished\, we’ll hear from Vickie and Jim about growing up as John Fante’s children\, and their work protecting his literary estate and archives. Barbara McCarren will walk us through her Fante-inspired Pershing Square public art installation “HeyDay” (1994)\, which is presently threatened by park redevelopment. Matteo Cacco will join us from Germany to talk about his academic thesis on Fante’s conflicting Italian/American identity and the importance of the Bunker Hill community to his writing. Kim and Richard will take you into the King Eddy Cellar speakeasy beneath the King Edward Hotel and show you remnants of this lowlife pleasure palace and talk about nominating the corner of Fifth and Grand—outside the Central Library where Fante read and where Charles Bukowski would discover “Ask the Dust”—as John Fante Square.  And Bunker Hill native son Gordon Pattison will share his experiences growing up in that lost Victorian neighborhood\, with the kinds of people who populate Fante’s fiction. \nJohn Fante (1909-1983) was born in Denver\, a first generation American profoundly affected by his attempts to reconcile his parents’ old world Italian sensibilities with his yearning to become a great American writer. \nIn Depression-era Los Angeles\, Fante found his voice and stories worth telling\, surrounded by the lost and lonely people of the Bunker Hill boarding houses\, soaking in the cultural melting pot of Grand Central Market\, skipping from the ancient Mexican Catholic world of the Plaza Church to the subterranean speakeasies of the Main Street sin zone\, hearing the soap box orators in Pershing Square and the familiar tinkle of the organ grinder’s box. With great compassion\, humor and self awareness\, Fante-as-Bandini gives us an unforgettable view of a cultural outsider desperate to be something he is not\, and a fascinating city that no longer exists. \n“Ask The Dust” was a great American novel\, and well received\, but the fates toyed with Fante and cast him adrift in Hollywood\, where he found success as a script doctor and author of unproduced screenplays. Still\, he yearned to be a great writer. Decades later\, blind and ill and living in Malibu\, he went back in his head to the place where he had been so inspired and dictated “Dreams from Bunker Hill\,” a final Bandini novel\, to his wife\, the poet Joyce Smart Fante. \nThis webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with original research\, photographs and archival material that will bring John Fante’s Bunker Hill and Downtown Los Angeles to life on your digital device. And you’ll find the look of an Esotouric webinar is a little different than your standard dry Zoom session\, with lively interactive graphics courtesy of the mmhmm app. \nAfter the presentation\, Kim\, Richard\, Vickie\, Jim\, Barbara\, Matteo and Gordon will answer your questions\, so get ready to be a part of the show. \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week. Please note: the 2-hour running time is just an estimate\, and we often run long because the stories take on a life of their own. You can always come back and watch the last part of the webinar recording later. \nSo\, tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious. \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \n\n\nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one another on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging even deeper into the secret heart of the city they love.\n \nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion.
URL:https://esotouric.com/event/john-fante-bunker-hill/
LOCATION:
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210327T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210327T133000
DTSTAMP:20260512T162821
CREATED:20210312T232342Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210327T235307Z
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SUMMARY:Art Deco Leisure Suits: How Los Angeles Preserved the 1930s in the 1970s
DESCRIPTION:This is a recording of a webinar that previously streamed live. You can purchase a ticket to watch the recording\, but you won’t be able to participate in the live chat or Q&A. This recording will be available through midnight on Saturday\, April 3. \n\n\n\nTo sign up\, enter your name and email address and click the “Buy Ticket” button above. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \nLos Angeles is a young city\, and for much of its history has been more interested in growth than in preserving what’s already here. \nBut in the 1970s\, a new idea began to take root: the aging\, unfashionable Art Deco buildings in Downtown\, Hollywood and along the Miracle Mile were something special and should be repurposed rather than demolished or drastically remodeled. \nIt was too late to save the Richfield tower\, the black and gold marvel across from Central Library was destroyed in 1969. But it wasn’t too late to save the Wiltern Theatre\, Oviatt Building and Central Library itself. \nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, for a deep dive into the early days of historic preservation and adaptive reuse in Los Angeles\, with a focus on the grassroots campaigns and public policy decisions that ensured that beloved Art Deco landmarks remained standing and relevant for generations to come. \nWhile much maligned for its misguided land use decisions on Bunker Hill\, the Community Redevelopment Agency did some great things in Downtown Los Angeles. We’ll explore the CRA’s commitment to Spring Street\, which ensured that the fading Wall Street of the West was revitalized with a National Register District designation\, institutional tenants for aging office buildings like the Garfield and Banco Popular\, and a flow of restoration funds. Tapping into the CRA’s faith in the district\, architect Ragnar C. Qvale leased the Zig-Zag Moderne Title Insurance & Trust Company Building\, transforming it into the Design Center of Los Angeles\, the self-styled Queen of Spring Street. \nOn Olive Street facing Pershing Square\, Phyllis Lambert bought the aging Biltmore\, restoring the original features and reinventing the hotel with original contemporary art and custom fixtures. A block south\, Wayne Ratkovich saved the Oviatt Building from demolition\, hiring Brenda Levin to restore the early Art Deco interiors and installing an influential anchor tenant\, Mauro Vincenti’s Rex Il Ristorante. \nAnd on Broadway\, the blue and gold Eastern Columbia tower became an incubator for nonprofits\, among them the newly formed Los Angeles Conservancy. \nThen just as Angelenos were beginning to recognize the value of our Art Deco architecture and the usefulness of these brightly colored white elephants\, came the greatest preservation challenge yet: the out-of-state owner announced a plan to demolish the Wiltern Theatre (Pellissier Building) at Wilshire and Western. Could a scrappy band of preservationists find a sympathetic buyer to save the landmark? And if it was saved\, then what? \nJoining us are Ruthann Lehrer\, founding executive director of the Los Angeles Conservancy\, to talk about the early days of the nonprofit in the Eastern Columbia building\, and their work building coalitions and advocating for the Wiltern and other Art Deco landmarks. And David Smay\, author of the 33 1/3 series book on “Tom Waits’ ‘Swordfishtrombones’” and host of an occasional Esotouric tour about the musician\, will describe Waits’ legendary December 31\, 1988 concert at the Wiltern\, and the importance of historic venues for contemporary artists and audiences. \nThis webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with rare photos that will bring the Art Deco landmarks of Los Angeles and their preservationist pals to life. And you’ll find the look of an Esotouric webinar is a little different than your standard dry Zoom session\, with lively interactive graphics courtesy of the mmhmm app. \nAfter the presentation\, Kim\, Richard\, Ruthann Lehrer and David Smay will answer your questions\, so get ready to be a part of the show. \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week. Please note: the 2-hour running time is just an estimate\, and we often run long because the stories take on a life of their own. You can always come back and watch the last part of the webinar recording later. \nSo\, tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious. \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \n\n\nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one another on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging even deeper into the secret heart of the city they love.\n \nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion.
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SUMMARY:Esotouric Presents A Celebration of Paul R. Williams\, Architect: From Hollywood Regency to SeaView Palos Verdes
DESCRIPTION:This is a recording of a webinar that previously streamed live. You can purchase a ticket to watch the recording\, but you won’t be able to participate in the live chat or Q&A. This recording will be available through midnight on Saturday\, March 27.  \nPlease join us on Saturdays at noon Los Angeles time for a new live webinar. \n\n\n\nTo sign up\, enter your name and email address and click the “Buy Ticket” button above. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, for a celebration and virtual exploration of the influential Modernist architecture of Paul R. Williams\, featuring four Angelenos who have been profoundly influenced by it: photographer Janna Ireland\, author Stephen Gee\, SeaView Palos Verdes historian Price T. Morgan and SeaView Palos Verdes historian and restorationist Larry Paul. \nIn this webinar\, author Stephen Gee will give us an introduction to Paul R. Williams’s career and the many styles he mastered. Photographer Janna Ireland will discuss her experiences documenting the architect’s extant Southern California buildings\, as compiled in her recent book “Regarding Paul R. Williams: A Photographer’s View.” And Price T. Morgan and Larry Paul will introduce us to their beloved Palos Verdes community of SeaView\, a rare and little known Paul R. Williams tract development. We’ll learn about the particular charm and quirks of SeaView’s design\, and the challenges of restoring a remodeled SeaView home to meet and even exceed the architect’s original intentions. \nPaul R. Williams is an integral part of the story of Southern California’s unique contributions in inventing and reinventing Modern architecture from the 1920s into the 1970s. Far more than the architect of a string of magnificent homes for the rich and famous\, he was an active participant in absorbing and interpreting the forces of modern life in the region. As a young man he sought out the best training he could\, and employment with some of the leading progressive architects of Los Angeles.  Once he launched his own firm\, his skill in designing the favored traditional styles of the day brought him a series of civic\, commercial\, and residential buildings. Sensing the rising modern current in the 1930s\, he (and other Los Angeles architects) explored the directions that new technologies\, mass production\, the auto\, and the city’s forward-looking culture began to reveal. Reflecting this evolving trend\, he was an important contributor to the Hollywood Regency style\, reinterpreting glamorous traditional forms with modernism’s simplification. He also introduced a line of prefabricated steel housing. From there he moved on (with other Los Angeles architects) to even more daring and original modern forms\, abandoning traditional elements in the 1940s and 1950s entirely for a well-composed architecture of abstract form we now identify as Late Moderne. He continued to refine these Modern ideas\, though rarely if ever borrowing from the International Style template; Los Angeles culture and lifestyle served him well enough as inspirations in evolving this Southern California-based Modernism throughout his career. He practiced this in a wide range of building types\, including commercial high-rises\, airports\, civic buildings\, hotels\, motels\, public housing\, race tracks\, churches\, mass-produced tract housing\, and luxury residences. Of course he accomplished this while his drive\, character\, and ability helped him to face and overcome the constraints of racism in his day. And disproving the prediction of the teacher who advised him not to become an architect because the Black community could not support such a career\, he maintained and sought out a steady line of commissions from Black clients for commercial\, church\, residential\, and tract housing architecture. \nWe are grateful to Alan Hess\, architect and historian\, for his help with this program. \nABOUT OUR SPECIAL GUESTS \nJANNA IRELAND was born in Philadelphia\, but has chosen Los Angeles as her home. She holds an MFA from the UCLA Department of Art and a BFA from the Department of Photography and Imaging at NYU. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions across the United States and internationally. Her photographs have appeared in numerous publications\, including Aperture\, The New Yorker\, Harper’s\, Frieze\, Camera Austria\, the Los Angeles Times\, and The New York Times Magazine. Her book\, “Regarding Paul R. Williams: A Photographer’s View”\, was published in 2020 and shortlisted for the Paris Photo – Aperture Foundation First PhotoBook award. \nSTEPHEN GEE is a writer and television producer based in Los Angeles. He is the author of four books\, including “Master Architects of Southern California 1920-1940: Paul R. Williams” (2021)\, “Los Angeles City Hall: An American Icon” (2018) and “Iconic Vision: John Parkinson\, Architect of Los Angeles” (2013). He is also co-author with Arnold Schwartzman of “Los Angeles Central Library: A History of its Art and Architecture” (2016)\, which won the 2016 Glenn Goldman Award for Art\, Architecture\, and Photography\, presented by Southern California Independent Booksellers Association. Stephen also wrote\, directed\, and produced the award-winning PBS documentary “Iconic Vision: John Parkinson\, Architect of Los Angeles” (2018). A graduate of City\, University of London\, he began his career as a newspaper reporter in Norfolk\, England. He has lived in Los Angeles since 1995. \nPRICE T. MORGAN is a Dallas-based debate coach and staff member at a university-based public health research institute. Born and raised in the Los Angeles area\, Price spent his childhood and early teenage years focused on various historical research projects and acting endeavors. He graduated from Los Angeles Harbor College in 2017 and Southern Methodist University in 2019. In his spare time\, Price enjoys reading\, playing his ukulele\, creating new vegan recipes\, wrestling with cognitive dissonance\, and procrastinating. \nLARRY PAUL and his wife Julie have been studying mid-century modern design for more than 25 years and have been working on a sensitive restoration/improvement of Larry’s childhood home\, designed by Paul R. Williams. Because the home needed significant repairs and had been modified over the decades\, it provided both a challenge and an opportunity to restore and enhance the MCM character while modernizing the functionality and efficiency. Larry has decades of experience in the design and deployment of high-end specialty themed entertainment\, giant screens\, visualization and simulation projects. His name is on six patents. Larry and Julie are 100% responsible for the design effort. To get to the final design\, and knowing the advantages of pre-visualizing on the computer\, Larry and Julie explored multiple design concepts by first building them as digital 3D models before hiring professional firms to do the structural engineering and construction work. \nThis webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with rare photos that will bring the work of Paul R. Williams to life. And you’ll find the look of an Esotouric webinar is a little different than your standard dry Zoom session\, with lively interactive graphics courtesy of the mmhmm app. \nAfter the presentation\, Kim\, Richard\, Stephen\, Janna\, Price and Larry will answer your questions\, so get ready to be a part of the show. \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week. Please note: the 2-hour running time is just an estimate\, and we often run long because the stories take on a life of their own. You can always come back and watch the last part of the webinar recording later. \nSo\, tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious. \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \n\n\nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one another on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging even deeper into the secret heart of the city they love.\n \nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion.
URL:https://esotouric.com/event/paul-williams-regency-seaview/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210313T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210313T133000
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SUMMARY:Saving South Los Angeles Landmarks: Googie\, Gill & Governor Gage Webinar
DESCRIPTION:This is a recording of a webinar that previously streamed live. You can purchase a ticket to watch the recording\, but you won’t be able to participate in the live chat or Q&A. This recording will be available through midnight on Saturday\, March 20.  \nPlease join us on Saturdays at noon Los Angeles time for a new live webinar. \n\n\n\nTo sign up\, enter your name and email address and click the “Buy Ticket” button above. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \nLos Angeles County is vast\, with 88 cities contained within its nearly 5000′ square mile sprawl. Too often\, historic preservation efforts are focused on famous landmarks in dense neighborhoods popular with tourists: Hollywood\, Downtown\, Pasadena\, Silver Lake. \nBut there is architectural beauty and rich history to be found in every corner of Los Angeles\, and it’s in the less traveled sections between the freeways where preservationists can both do the most good and be happily surprised by new discoveries. \nThis provocative Esotouric webinar works its way south down the Alameda Industrial Corridor into Bell Gardens\, Santa Fe Springs and Downey\, to explore off-the-beaten-path landmarks that have had enormous influence on the cultural life of Southern California and the world beyond. \nTurning the predictable notion of a Los Angeles architecture webinar on its head\, this virtual excursion goes into areas not traditionally associated with the important\, beautiful or significant\, raising issues of preservation\, adaptive reuse and urban planning. The locations all speak to the power\, mutability and reach of Southern California as a creative engine. \nFeatured sites include: \n• The Clarke Estate\, Santa Fe Springs (Irving Gill\, 1919) – a modernist masterpiece set in 60 acres of bucolic citrus groves\, the house was almost immediately rendered uninhabitable by the polluting effects of a nearby oil strike. Long forgotten\, it was taken over by the city and transformed into a wedding venue\, house museum and community garden\, the Clarke Estate is the nearest thing we have to Gill’s legendary Dodge House (1916\, demolished 1970). Joining us for this segment is Margaret Bach\, founding president of the Los Angeles Conservancy\, to talk about her work restoring Gill’s Horatio West Court Apartment complex (also 1919). \n• Harvey’s Broiler\, Downey (Paul B. Clayton\, 1958) – Harvey’s was a glowing stop on the mid-century South L.A. teenage car cruising circuit\, its international influence on fashion\, design and pop culture immortalized by Tom Wolfe in his essay “The Hair Boys.” That would be enough to grant Harvey’s a spot in this webinar. But Harvey’s is also a landmark of historic preservation activism. After a section of the beloved drive-in was illegally demolished\, the community demanded it be rebuilt exactly as it had been\, and held their elected officials accountable to ensure that happened. Today\, as Bob’s Big Boy\, the rebuilt Harvey’s Broiler remains a favorite stop for cruisers\, families and preservation people who need a little boost in the throes of a tough campaign. If Harvey’s can come back\, so can (fill in the blank). \n• Casa de Rancho San Antonio – Henry Gage Mansion\, Bell Gardens (c.1840 with additions) – One of the oldest adobes in Los Angeles County\, this Bell Gardens landmark was a home for the Lugo family\, whose land holdings spread into the city of South Gate\, named for their rancho’s southern border. Later clad in redwood by California’s 20th Governor\, Henry Gage\, this fascinating courtyard home on the banks of the Rio Hondo River is now entirely surrounded by a mid-century trailer park. We’ll share our years-long efforts to make the designated California landmark accessible to the public\, and share its fascinating history of cultural and demographic changes\, from Spanish land grants to the dust bowl to suburb subdivisions. \nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, for a time travel trip through the South Los Angeles historic preservation trenches\, to discover some fascinating and unexpected landmarks and the colorful characters who made history within them. \nThis webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with rare photos that will bring the landmarks of South Los Angeles County to life. And you’ll find the look of an Esotouric webinar is a little different than your standard dry Zoom session\, with lively interactive graphics courtesy of the mmhmm app. \nAfter the presentation\, Kim\, Richard and Margaret Bach will answer your questions\, so get ready to be a part of the show. \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week. Please note: the 2-hour running time is just an estimate\, and we often run long because the stories take on a life of their own. You can always come back and watch the last part of the webinar recording later. \nSo\, tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious. \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \n\n\nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one another on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging even deeper into the secret heart of the city they love.\n \nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion.
URL:https://esotouric.com/event/south-la-googie-gill-gage/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210306T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210306T133000
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SUMMARY:The Birth of Noir with James M. Cain & Raymond Chandler webinar
DESCRIPTION:This is a recording of a webinar that previously streamed live. You can purchase a ticket to watch the recording\, but you won’t be able to participate in the live chat or Q&A. This recording will be available through midnight on Saturday\, March 13.  \nPlease join us on Saturdays at noon Los Angeles time for a new live webinar. \n\n\n\n\nTo sign up\, enter your name and email address and click the “Buy Ticket” button above. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \nDepression-era Southern California: Amongst the burgeoning urban sprawl built atop bulldozed orange groves and the bitter realization that you can’t eat the sunshine\, Maryland-born James M. Cain found his writer’s voice. The unforgettable regional stories he spun between 1934-44\, in novels ”The Postman Always Rings Twice\,” “Mildred Pierce” and “Double Indemnity” and their subsequent film adaptations\, would help launch a unique American genre: Film Noir. \nHow did this East Coast sophisticate go from managing editor of “The New Yorker” to populist novelist accused of writing dirty books? What strange characters did he find in Los Angeles\, and how did he make them his own? And what is the link between the heightened emotions of opera and Cain’s Southern California Noir? \nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, for a webinar that tells James M. Cain’s story through virtual visits to time capsule locations\, where you’ll meet the Southern California characters that shaped Cain’s work and embodied his obsessions. \nThe webinar explores Cain’s world\, from Hollywood to Glendale and along old Route 66\, from Forest Lawn Memorial Park (site of a tragic scene from “Mildred Pierce”) to the Glendale Train Station (“Double Indemnity”)\, from seedy roadside attractions to hard-boiled Skid Row taverns and hotels. And you’ll learn about the artisans who adapted Cain’s fictions into Film Noir\, including Raymond Chandler\, Billy Wilder\, Joan Crawford and Lana Turner. \nThis webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with rare photos that will bring Cain’s literary Southern California and its Film Noir interpretations to life. And you’ll find the look of an Esotouric webinar is a little different than your standard dry Zoom session\, with lively interactive graphics courtesy of the mmhmm app. \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week. Please note: the 2-hour running time is just an estimate\, and we often run long because the stories take on a life of their own. You can always come back and watch the last part of the webinar recording later. \nSo\, tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious. \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \n\n\nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one another on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging even deeper into the secret heart of the city they love.\n \nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion.
URL:https://esotouric.com/event/birth-of-noir-webinar/
LOCATION:
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210227T133000
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SUMMARY:Esotouric Presents The Stories of Los Angeles Storybook Architecture Webinar
DESCRIPTION:This is a recording of a webinar that previously streamed live. You can purchase a ticket to watch the recording\, but you won’t be able to participate in the live chat or Q&A. This recording will be available through midnight on Saturday\, March 6.  \n\nPlease join us on Saturdays at noon Los Angeles time for a new live webinar. \n\n\n\n\n\nTo sign up\, enter your name and email address and click the “Buy Ticket” button above. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \n\nWhen east coast sophisticates came west to partake in that sweet motion picture money\, they mocked and marveled at our eclectic local architecture. \n\nFor as real estate developers scrambled to satisfy the needs of a booming population\, they’d looked to Hollywood set designers for inspiration. And almost overnight\, and on a single block\, one could choose to live in a home styled in the vernacular of Ancient Egypt\, Andalusian Spain\, Norman France or Tudor England. \n\nAmong the most exuberant of L.A.’s oddball architectural styles is Storybook: a fantastical blend of medieval motifs and whimsical twists that seems ripped from the pages of a fairy tale. With their pitched roofs and undulating shingles\, turrets and towers\, Hobbit doors and stained glass portals\, these daffy structures stopped traffic when new. And Storybook gems like the Spadena Witch’s House and Tam O’Shanter restaurant remain treasured landmarks today. \n\nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, for a celebration of L.A.’s Storybook style and the fascinating stories attached to these unusual structures. You’ll meet Steven Anthony\, the ex-Marine Barney’s Beanery barman who took up arms to protect his beloved Storybook cottage across from the Hollywood Bowl when the County seized it by eminent domain. Then it’s out to the Eastside\, where a bold new style of Chicano tattooing is perfected inside a wee Hansel and Gretel cottage. We’ll explore Hollywood’s Crossroads of the World and its surprisingly dark origins. And more tales from some of L.A.’s weirdest buildings\, and the fascinating characters associated with them. \n\nThis webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with rare photos that will bring the Storybook gems of Los Angeles to life. And you’ll find the look of an Esotouric webinar is a little different than your standard dry Zoom session\, with lively interactive graphics courtesy of the mmhmm app. \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week. Please note: the 2-hour running time is just an estimate\, and we often run long because the stories take on a life of their own. You can always come back and watch the last part of the webinar recording later. \nSo\, tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious. \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \n\n\nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one another on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging even deeper into the secret heart of the city they love.\n \nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion.
URL:https://esotouric.com/event/storybook/
LOCATION:
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210220T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210220T133000
DTSTAMP:20260512T162821
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SUMMARY:Esotouric Presents The Dark Side of the West Side webinar
DESCRIPTION:This is a recording of a webinar that previously streamed live. You can purchase a ticket to watch the recording\, but you won’t be able to participate in the live chat or Q&A. This recording will be available through midnight on Saturday\, February 27.  \nPlease join us on Saturdays at noon Los Angeles time for a new live webinar. \n\n\n\nTo sign up\, enter your name and email address and click the “Buy Ticket” button above If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \nWhile sun\, sand and sea may be sweet diversions for some\, coastal Los Angeles has been the site of some deeply strange and fascinating crimes. And it’s not just the contrast with the surroundings that makes these tales so shocking. \nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.‘s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, for a time travel trip on the dark side of the West Side\, as they dig into the true crime archives and share a selection of weird historic tales you won’t find featured in the tourist guides. From Synanon to the House of Horrors\, the mummified cult priestess to the pier creeper\, you’ll thrill and shudder to tales of weird antics set against the backdrop of the pounding Pacific surf. \nThis webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with rare photos that will bring true crime history to life. And you’ll find the look of an Esotouric webinar is a little different than your standard dry Zoom session\, with lively interactive graphics courtesy of the mmhmm app. \nAfter the presentation\, Kim and Richard will answer your questions\, so get ready to be a part of the show. \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week. Please note: the 2-hour running time is just an estimate\, and we often run long because the stories take on a life of their own. You can always come back and watch the last part of the webinar recording later. \nSo\, tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious. \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \n\n\nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one another on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging even deeper into the secret heart of the city they love.\n \nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion.
URL:https://esotouric.com/event/darkside-westside/
LOCATION:
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210213T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210213T133000
DTSTAMP:20260512T162821
CREATED:20210130T010608Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210214T001017Z
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SUMMARY:In The Shadow of the Hotel Cecil: A Main Street Time Travel webinar
DESCRIPTION:This is a recording of a webinar that previously streamed live. You can purchase a ticket to watch the recording\, but you won’t be able to participate in the live chat or Q&A. This recording will be available through midnight on Saturday\, February 20.  \nPlease join us on Saturdays at noon Los Angeles time for a new live webinar. \n\n\n\nTo sign up\, enter your name and email address and click the “Buy Ticket” button above. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \nOne of the most fascinating\, mysterious and poorly understood buildings in Los Angeles is the Hotel Cecil. \nProminently situated in the heart of historic Skid Row\, the Cecil has witnessed the neighborhood’s transformation from central business district to anything goes vice zone\, from cheap flophouses to gentrified loft district. \nWhen Esotouric gave its first tours of Downtown L.A. true crime and cultural history in 2007\, the Hotel Cecil was a featured location\, notable for its association with the Richard Ramirez Night Stalker murders and with dark tourism slayer Jack Unterweger\, and several less high profile deaths. \nBut it wasn’t until 2013\, when Canadian tourist Elisa Lam vanished under mysterious circumstances\, only to be discovered floating in the Cecil’s rooftop water tank\, that the hotel became an object of fascination for armchair true crime sleuths around the world. \nSo what else is there to say about the Hotel Cecil? Everything! \nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, for a virtual exploration of the notorious\, beautiful and misunderstood Hotel Cecil and its history of mysterious deaths\, peculiar management choices and central role in popularizing the Alcoholics Anonymous recovery program. We’ll talk about the high profile crimes associated with the building\, and some lesser known tales. And we’ll step outside to get to know the lost world of tattoo parlors\, freak shows\, burlesque houses\, B-girl bars\, pawn shops\, dime a dance halls\, dirty movie houses and rescue missions that once were the hotel’s neighbors. \nEsotouric’s Kim Cooper and Richard Schave are the go-to experts for journalists covering the Hotel Cecil and Skid Row history\, and appear in the forthcoming Netflix series “Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel.” \nThis webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with rare photos that will bring the Hotel Cecil and Main Street to life. And you’ll find the look of an Esotouric webinar is a little different than your standard dry Zoom session\, with lively interactive graphics courtesy of the mmhmm app. \nAfter the presentation\, Kim and Richard will answer your questions\, so get ready to be a part of the show. \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week. Please note: the 2-hour running time is just an estimate\, and we often run long because the stories take on a life of their own. You can always come back and watch the last part of the webinar recording later. \nSo\, tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious. \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \n\n\nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one another on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging even deeper into the secret heart of the city they love.\n \nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion.
URL:https://esotouric.com/event/hotel-cecil-time-travel/
LOCATION:
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210206T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210206T133000
DTSTAMP:20260512T162821
CREATED:20210123T000903Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210217T232947Z
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SUMMARY:Esotouric Celebrates Los Angeles Historic Preservation\, 1900s-1980s
DESCRIPTION:This is a recording of a webinar that previously streamed live. You can purchase a ticket to watch the recording\, but you won’t be able to participate in the live chat or Q&A. This recording will be available through midnight on Saturday\, February 13. \nPlease join us on Saturdays at noon Los Angeles time for a new live webinar. \n\n\n\nTo sign up\, enter your name and email address and click the “Buy Ticket” button above. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \nAlmost as long as Los Angeles has been a city\, Angelenos have worried that it is changing too fast and its landmarks being lost. The threat to historic places has never been greater than in today’s climate of relentless development and political corruption. And yet\, this is also a golden age for preservation activism\, with powerful digital tools that let citizens organize\, communicate and often succeed in saving the places they love. \nEvery 21st century L.A. preservationist stands on the shoulders of giants—so let’s get to know them. \nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, for a virtual celebration of the preservation people of Los Angeles from the 1900s through the 1980s\, telling the stories of the passionate\, colorful and just plain cranky folks who took a stand for our shared history and left the city better than they found it. You’ll also learn about the public policy wonks who shaped one of the nation’s earliest and strongest preservation ordinances\, ensuring that some very special landmarks and landscapes were preserved. \nYour hosts Kim Cooper and Richard Schave are Los Angeles cultural historians\, and passionate preservationists\, having worked on such varied campaigns as landmarking the Los Angeles Times buildings and writer Charles Bukowski’s East Hollywood bungalow\, spearheading restoration of Sheila Klein’s dismantled streetlight sculpture Vermonica and restoring Angels Flight Railway to service. Learn more about their preservation work. \nThe webinar will reveal: \n\n\nHow author and civic booster Charles Fletcher Lummis rallied Edwardian Angelenos to form the Landmarks Club and fund restoration of California Mission buildings whose adobe walls were on the verge of melting into mud. \n\n\nHow single mother Christine Sterling worked relentlessly to halt demolition of L.A.’s oldest house\, the Avila Adobe\, and to transform the seedy surrounding neighborhood into the abiding small business district and tourist attraction\, Olvera Street. \n\n\nHow City Planner Calvin Hamilton brought the Indiana model of preservation to Los Angeles in the 1960s\, and created a public policy framework for designating and protecting significant landmarks. \n\n\nHow the Cultural Heritage Board under Carl Dentzel created Heritage Square\, where significant houses were moved from redeveloping neighborhoods like Bunker Hill. \n\n\nHow the citizens of Angelino Heights restored their landmark Victorian homes\, buried unsightly modern electrical wires and advocated to become the city’s first Historic Preservation Overlay Zone. \n\n\nHow preservation nonprofits like Hollywood Heritage\, Keep Old Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Conservancy became a powerful force in shaping preservation policy. \n\n\nSpecial guests will include Margaret Bach\, founding president of the Los Angeles Conservancy\, and Jean Bruce Poole\, the first curator of El Pueblo\, sharing insights into their work preserving and interpreting the historic built environment of Los Angeles. Plus\, Bunker Hill native son Gordon Pattison will talk about how his family’s Bunker Hill Victorians were the first buildings moved to Heritage Square\, and the tragic tale of their loss to fire. \nThis webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with rare photos and ephemera that will bring the history of preservation in Los Angeles to life on your digital device. And you’ll find the look of an Esotouric webinar is a little different than your standard dry Zoom session\, with lively interactive graphics courtesy of the mmhmm app. \nAfter the presentation\, you’ll have a chance to ask questions\, so get ready to be a part of the show. \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week. Please note: the 2-hour running time is just an estimate\, and we often run long because the stories take on a life of their own. You can always come back and watch the last part of the webinar recording later. \nSo\, tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious. \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \n\n\nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one another on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging even deeper into the secret heart of the city they love.\n \nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion.
URL:https://esotouric.com/event/preservation-1900s-1980s-past/
LOCATION:
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210130T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210130T133000
DTSTAMP:20260512T162821
CREATED:20210115T233130Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210208T214727Z
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SUMMARY:Touring Southern California's Architecture of Death with historian Nathan Marsak
DESCRIPTION:This is a recording of a webinar that previously streamed live. You can purchase a ticket to watch the recording\, but you won’t be able to participate in the live chat or Q&A. This recording will be available through midnight on Saturday\, February 6.  \nPlease join us on Saturdays at noon Los Angeles time for a new live webinar. \n\n\n\nTo sign up\, enter your name and email address and click the “Buy Ticket” button above. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \nAre you a taphophile—fascinated with cemeteries\, gravestones and the culture of death and mourning? Join the club\, and reserve your spot as Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, teams up with Nathan Marsak\, America’s wittiest historian of mortuary architecture\, for an immersive illustrated lecture on the early cemeteries and innovative mausoleum designs of Southern California. \nWe’ll begin the program with rare photographs and some fascinating stories about City Cemetery and Old Calvary\, two of the earliest American burial grounds in the historic heart of Los Angeles. As the city grew\, the cemeteries were relocated\, leaving tantalizing traces of how death and life were once entwined around Olvera Street. \nFrom these lesser known mid-19th century graveyards\, we’ll fast forward to the 1910s\, when new ideas in hygiene\, architecture and civic pride shaped the development of a different kind of memorial landscape: the community mausoleum. \nThese public burial vaults reflected a burgeoning modernism: they were\, in effect\, early multifamily housing constructed of steel-reinforced concrete\, built in a functional and spare style intended to connote solemnity\, but to also provide the necessary hygienic element. Just as pioneers of concrete residential architecture worked to make their structures fireproof\, durable and sanitary\, so did the builders of mausolea; modernist masters like Irving Gill would similarly obsess over hygienic concerns of drainage and ventilation. But unlike private homes\, public mausolea were meant to evoke a peaceful eternity\, represented through exquisite use of stained glass. \nThrough vintage and contemporary photos\, we’ll virtually explore the compelling histories of three significant structures\, erected over just four years: \n\n\nCommunity Mausoleum\, Anaheim Cemetery (architect Charles E. Shattuck\, 1914) \n\n\nInglewood Mausoleum\, Inglewood Cemetery (architects Buchanan & Brockway\, 1915) \n\n\nHollywood Mausoleum\, Hollywood Cemetery now called Hollywood Forever (architects Marston & Van Pelt\, 1918) \n\n\nWe will also be joined by Prof. Steve Hackel of UC Riverside\, to talk about the Campo Santo at El Pueblo\, the first cemetery in Los Angeles (1822-1844)\, both its history as a cemetery\, and the controversy surrounding the recent unintentional unearthing of the graves during a renovation project by the County of Los Angeles in 2010. \nThis webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with rare photos that will bring cemetery history to life on your digital device. And you’ll find the look of an Esotouric webinar is a little different than your standard dry Zoom session\, with lively interactive graphics courtesy of the mmhmm app. \nAfter the presentation\, Nathan\, Kim and Richard will answer your questions\, so get ready to be a part of the show. \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week. Please note: the 2-hour running time is just an estimate\, and we often run long because the stories take on a life of their own. You can always come back and watch the last part of the webinar recording later. \nSo\, tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious. \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \n\nAbout Nathan Marsak: Nathan is the author of the books Bunker Hill Los Angeles: Essence of Sunshine and Noir\, Los Angeles Neon\, Bunker Noir!\, and can be found spitting tacks in the character of The Cranky Preservationist. You can find him online at his blogs\, Bunker Hill Los Angeles\, RIP Los Angeles\, and the On Bunker Hill. \n\nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one another on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging even deeper into the secret heart of the city they love.\n \nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion.
URL:https://esotouric.com/event/architecture-of-death-past/
LOCATION:
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210123T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210123T133000
DTSTAMP:20260512T162821
CREATED:20210108T203923Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210208T211426Z
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SUMMARY:The Biggest Little Country Store in the World: How Crawford’s Markets Fed the San Gabriel Valley and Transformed The Industry
DESCRIPTION:This is a recording of a webinar that previously streamed live. You can purchase a ticket to watch the recording\, but you won’t be able to participate in the live chat or Q&A. This recording will be available through midnight on Saturday\, December 30.  \nPlease join us on Saturdays at noon Los Angeles time for a new live webinar. \n\n\n\nTo sign up\, enter your name and email address and click the “Buy Ticket” button above. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \nOnce upon a time in the San Gabriel Valley\, families flocked to a very special chain of supermarkets owned\, operated and innovated by Leemoria Barbara and Wayland Howard “W.H.” Crawford. \nFrom the flagship 1929 Crawford’s Market at Valley and New in Alhambra (still extant with its 1964 Old West remodel) to Crawford’s Five Points in El Monte (“The Biggest Little Country Store in the World”)\, from Montebello to Rosemead\, Pasadena to Glendale\, these visionary grocery stores offered a great selection of fresh California produce\, dairy\, meat and staples–and so much more. \nConveniently located on huge corner lots in newly subdivided agricultural districts\, every Crawford’s was a mercantile village\, with small businesses to serve the needs of a post-war suburban customer base with growing families and money to spend. \nCustomers appreciated the convenience of combining the weekly marketing with a stop at the barber shop\, shoe repair or dry cleaner. Forgot to pick up something for the little lady on Valentine’s Day? Nip into the jewelry store for the perfect trifle.  Live plants\, sewing notions\, TV sets\, auto repair\, school clothes\, cameras\, eyeglasses\, fountain pens\, film and developing\, gasoline\, you could find all that and more at the store “open Sunday\, Monday and always” from 9 to 9. \nBut Crawford’s wasn’t just about the retail trade. Every store had a huge parking lot\, perfect for hosting community gatherings like Easter parades\, Hallowe’en costume contests or a visit from Santa Claus\, arriving in modern fashion by helicopter. You could support the El Monte Community Chest when buying a chunk of the world’s largest cheese round\, or take a spin on one of Bud Hulbert’s first kiddie rides–before he went to work for Knott’s Berry Farm. \nThe Crawford family’s markets are gone now\, but their mid-century innovations live on in unexpected places in retail\, merchandising and marketing\, and in the memories of San Gabriel Valley folks. \nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, and Mitchell Crawford for a virtual celebration of his grandparents’ legendary Crawford’s Market chain. Mitchell grew up working in the family business\, and has adapted what he learned to his successful international retail consulting career. Come discover a fascinating Southern California success story\, illustrated with rare vintage photos and insider lore. \nThis webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with rare photos that will bring Crawford’s Markets and mid-century San Gabriel Valley to life. And you’ll find the look of an Esotouric webinar is a little different than your standard dry Zoom session\, with lively interactive graphics courtesy of the mmhmm app. \nAfter the presentation\, Mitchell\, Kim and Richard will answer your questions\, so get ready to be a part of the show. \nYou’ll have access to the full replay for one week. Please note: the 90 minute running time is just an estimate\, and we often run long because the stories take on a life of their own. You can always come back and watch the last part of the webinar recording later. \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week. Please note: the 2-hour running time is just an estimate\, and we often run long because the stories take on a life of their own. You can always come back and watch the last part of the webinar recording later. \nSo\, tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious. \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \n\n\nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one another on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging even deeper into the secret heart of the city they love.\n \nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion.
URL:https://esotouric.com/event/crawford-markets-past/
LOCATION:
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210116T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210116T133000
DTSTAMP:20260512T162821
CREATED:20210102T005932Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210125T051251Z
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SUMMARY:John Bengtson’s "Silent Echoes in Westlake" Early Los Angeles Film Locations webinar
DESCRIPTION:This is a recording of a webinar that previously streamed live. You can purchase a ticket to watch the recording\, but you won’t be able to participate in the live chat or Q&A. This recording will be available through midnight on Saturday\, December 23.  \nPlease join us on Saturdays at noon Los Angeles time for a new live webinar. \n\n\n\nTo sign up\, enter your name and email address and click the “Buy Ticket” button above. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, as they team up with author John Bengtson ("the great detective of silent film locations" – New York Times) to present a virtual silent cinema location scavenger hunt through one of L.A.’s most historic neighborhoods: Westlake. \nTune into this webinar to travel in the footsteps of the great silent film comedians Charlie Chaplin\, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd. \nWhen Los Angeles was young\, it was the biggest backlot in the world\, its landscapes and landmarks recognized by millions of fans. Although the city has grown and changed enormously\, many of these early cinema shooting locations survive. We’re flipping back the calendar pages for an immersive time travel trip to the silent city\, where you’ll thrill to discover the actual buildings and boulevards that appear in some of the greatest comic scenes ever filmed\, and marvel at John’s dogged detective work\, using vintage photos\, maps and primary source material to pinpoint exactly where the camera stood. \nInspired by\, and expanding on\, his popular in-person Esotouric sightseeing tour\, this webinar reveals the hidden cinema history that is everywhere in Los Angeles and the strategies\, research tricks and lucky breaks John uses to locate and match locations to their original film appearance a century ago. \nJohn says\, "Los Angeles was the most photographed city in the world\, especially during the silent film era\, when the great comedians traveled widely to shoot on location. Movies are time machines\, and the films from 90 to 100 years ago reveal so much of our past\, if only you know where to look. I’m so excited to share the onscreen history hiding in plain sight all around us\, as we explore the streets where Chaplin\, Keaton\, and Lloyd once worked and played. It was once all real\, and their silent echoes still reverberate gently." \nThis webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with rare photos and film clips that will bring the golden age of silent cinema to life on your digital device. And you’ll find the look of an Esotouric webinar is a little different than your standard dry Zoom session\, with lively interactive graphics courtesy of the mmhmm app. \nAfter the presentation\, John will answer your questions about silent film location sleuthing in Los Angeles\, so get ready to be a part of the show. \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week. Please note: the 90 minute running time is just an estimate\, and we often run long because the stories take on a life of their own. You can always come back and watch the last part of the webinar recording later. \nJohn Bengtson is the author of Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton (2000)\, Silent Traces: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Charlie Chaplin (2006) and Silent Visions: Discovering Early Hollywood and New York Through the Films of Harold Lloyd. Visit his website at https://silentlocations.com \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week. Please note: the 2-hour running time is just an estimate\, and we often run long because the stories take on a life of their own. You can always come back and watch the last part of the webinar recording later. \nSo\, tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious. \nFYI: Immediately upon registering\, you will receive a separate\, automated email containing the link to join the webinar. The webinar is reliable on all devices\, Mac\, PC\, iOS and Android. \nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \n\n\nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one another on sight. (Perhaps less inexplicably\, their academic advisor believed they were soul mates). A chance meeting 18 years later proved much more agreeable. Richard wooed Kim with high level library database access\, with which she launched the 1947project true crime blog\, highlighting a crime a day from the year of The Black Dahlia and Bugsy Siegel slayings. The popular blog’s readers demanded a tour\, and then another. The tour was magical\, a hothouse inspiring new ways for the by-then-newlyweds to tell the story of Los Angeles. Esotouric was born in 2007 with a calendar packed with true crime\, literary\, architecture and rock and roll tours. Ever since\, it has provided a platform for promoting historic preservation issues (like the Save the 76 Ball campaign and the landmarking of Charles Bukowski’s bungalow)\, building a community of urban explorers (including dozens of free talks and tours under the umbrella of LAVA) and digging even deeper into the secret heart of the city they love.\n \nRights and permissions: By attending an Esotouric webinar\, you acknowledge that the entirety of the presentation is copyrighted\, and no portion of the video or text may be reproduced in any fashion.
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