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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.
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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/
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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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/
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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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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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/
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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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/
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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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/
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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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.
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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/
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210417T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210417T133000
DTSTAMP:20260415T072034
CREATED:20210402T235217Z
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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/
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210410T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210410T133000
DTSTAMP:20260415T072034
CREATED:20210326T234840Z
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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/
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210403T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210403T133000
DTSTAMP:20260415T072034
CREATED:20210319T232623Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210404T012610Z
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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/
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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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.
URL:https://esotouric.com/event/art-deco-leisure-suits/
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210320T120000
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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/
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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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/
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/
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210227T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210227T133000
DTSTAMP:20260415T072034
CREATED:20210212T221605Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210228T000714Z
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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/
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210220T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210220T133000
DTSTAMP:20260415T072034
CREATED:20210205T235640Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210220T234510Z
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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/
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210213T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210213T133000
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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/
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210206T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210206T133000
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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.
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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/
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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/
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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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.
URL:https://esotouric.com/event/silent-echoes-westlake-2020-past/
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Esotouric Presents George Mann’s Fabulous Vintage Views of 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. This recording will be available through midnight on Saturday\, January 16. \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. \nGeorge Mann (1905-1977) might be the most fascinating Angeleno you’ve never heard of. Born in Santa Monica and raised on healthy food and sunshine\, he shot up to 6’5” at Venice High School. His gangly limbs\, dancing prowess and penchant for ridiculous costumes made him a natural for comic vaudeville\, and with partner Dewey Barto (4’ 11” in his dancing shoes)\, they blazed a headlining path across the theater circuit. \nWith hours to kill in a new town every day before Barto & Mann’s set\, George took up photography\, and captured extraordinary candid backstage scenes of his talented friends\, and the theaters where his name was on the marquee. Later\, he added a film camera to his tool kit\, which is why we can see his pals The Three Stooges clowning around on Atlantic City’s Steel Pier with George’s bride Barbara Bradford. \nAs vaudeville faded\, George reinvented himself back in Los Angeles\, developing a custom 3-D photo viewer that he leased to local restaurants and offices to entertain customers waiting for service. Designed with the help of his friend Bill Lear of Lear Jet fame\, George’s photo viewers gave him the opportunity to travel across the Southland\, capturing vibrant new scenes to keep repeat customers interested. Made for a small audience and never published\, the images remained unseen for decades. \nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, for a virtual celebration of George Mann’s creative and colorful life\, his remarkable photographs\, and the 3-D photography\, performing and engineering communities with which he was associated. \nYour hosts Kim Cooper and Richard Schave first encountered George’s work in 2010\, when George’s daughter-in-law and archivist\, the photographer Dianne Woods reached out with the generous offer to share some of his 3-D color photos with readers of the On Bunker Hill blog. The early 1950s views of Bunker Hill prior to redevelopment were a revelation\, as were his photos of vintage restaurant signs\, and a crowded and lively Pershing Square. \nCheck out the George Mann posts on the On Bunker Hill Blog with Meet George Mann and there is Much More Mann Where That Came From. \nJoining us to tell George’s story are his son Brad Smith and daughter-in-law and archivist Dianne Woods and Chris Casady\, a 3-D photographer\, longtime member of the LA 3-D Club\, animator and proud owner of one of George’s original commercial 3-D viewing devices. \nTune in to get to know a fascinating Los Angeles character and see rare mid-century views that will transform your understanding of Southern California landmarks famous and forgotten—including some never before seen. (Please note that although many of the featured\nimages were originally shot and displayed in 3-D\, the webinar is a two-dimensional presentation.) \nThis webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with rare photos that will bring George Mann’s 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\, Richard\, Brad\, Dianne and Chris will answer your questions about George Mann and 3-D photography\, 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:Pershing Square\, Los Angeles: the History\, Tragedy and Potential of Our Original Central Park\, 1866-2020
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\, January 9. \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. \nYou can’t miss it\, not even if you want to. In the heart of the city\, sits one of America’s most hated urban parks. \nCritics call Pershing Square a concrete hell-scape\, a confused collection of purple protuberances\, a zone of repulsion with no shade\, no place to sit\, nothing to look at— just a flat slab over a parking garage. \nBut once upon a time\, Pershing Square was the most beautiful and lively place in town\, a communal garden beloved by Downtown office workers and the boarding house and hotel dwellers of Bunker Hill and Skid Row. Tourists bought Pershing Square postcards\, hotels bragged about their proximity\, artists painted the passing scene\, and writers like John Fante\, Aldous Huxley and Hart Crane marveled at the human circus.     \nAs designed in 1910 by master architect John Parkinson\, who did the work at no cost as a gift to his adopted city\, the classic park boasted a central fountain\, long shaded walkways\, dozens of comfortable benches\, rare plants\, iconic memorials\, and memorable oddballs who attracted crowds to watch their antics. \nBut political pressure and changing demographics doomed the great park\, which lost much of its greenery when the soil was excavated for multi-level parking and a Cold War-era bomb shelter. Next came the design competitions and remodels\, each new iteration more unpleasant than the one before.   \nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, for a virtual exploration of Pershing Square’s humble origins and colorful golden age\, how everything went wrong\, and a hopeful glance forward at how it can once again be a great urban park. \nYour hosts Kim Cooper and Richard Schave are native Angelenos who who launched the Pershing Square Restoration Society to advocate for including John Parkinson’s design in councilman Jose Huizar’s competition for a new Pershing Square design. When Huizar refused to even let citizens vote for the popular Parkinson plan\, Kim and Richard teamed up with other fans to critique the winning design\, tell the park’s story and promote historic restoration. \nJoining us to tell the the incredible Pershing Square story are Stephen Gee\, author of Iconic Vision: John Parkinson\, Architect of Los Angeles and Courtland Jindra\, the World War I memorialist who solved the mystery of the park’s lost 18th century siege cannon. \nOur guests will also include author Prof. Mark Wild\, Nathan Marsak\, Gordon Pattison\, and Kemal Cilengar. \nThis webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with rare photos and video that will bring old Pershing Square 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\, Stephen and Courtland will answer your questions about Pershing Square history\, John Parkinson and the park’s memorial sculptures and artifacts\, 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/pershing-square-1866-2020-past/
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Esotouric Presents A Love Letter to the Cafeterias of Old 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. This recording will be available through midnight on Saturday\, January 2.  \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. \nSouthern California has long been where innovation happens\, especially in the kitchen. For our Christmas weekend webinar\, we’re taking a long and loving look back at the cafeterias that once dotted the Southland\, from legendary venues like Clifton’s\, Schaber’s and Boos Brothers to quirky gems like Finney’s (formerly the Dutch Chocolate Shop)\, Beadle’s\, Mission and Ontra (pronounced en-TRAY). \nOffering wholesome home cooking that a customer could see before paying\, and a wider variety of vegetables and salads than many Midwestern transplants had ever seen in one place\, 20th century cafeterias helped to shape California’s famously healthy diet\, while providing good fellowship\, good value and free entertainment to their devoted patrons. \nWithout hovering waitstaff eager to flip a table to increase their tips\, cafeterias became the de facto private clubhouses for regular folks who gathered in affinity groups\, among them lonely hearts clubs\, the Sierra Club and The Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society\, a group of fans\, professional writers and rocket scientists that met at the newly opened Clifton’s Cafeteria in the mid-1930s. \nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, for a virtual exploration of L.A.’s most charming\, inventive and affordable historic dining destinations. Drawing on original research into Clifford Clinton’s papers at UCLA Special Collections\, the Clinton family’s personal archives and years of obsessive sleuthing\, Esotouric’s love letter to the Cafeterias of Old Los Angeles will surprise\, delight\, educate and amuse you. \nYour hosts Kim Cooper and Richard Schave are native Angelenos who have a deep love of cafeteria culture\, having grown up enjoying the family-friendly fare in the waning days of the great cafeteria age. For some years before the Clinton family sold the business\, they hosted a free monthly cultural salon series upstairs at Clifton’s Cafeteria on Broadway\, and later upstairs at the former Schaber’s Cafeteria (Les Noces du Figaro). \nTune in for a full tray of vintage cafeteria philosophy\, architecture and lore\, with a virtual plate of multicolored confetti jello on the side. \nThis webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with rare photos that will bring Los Angeles’ cafeteria 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 about these historic restaurants\, 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/cafeterias-old-los-angeles-past/
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Esotouric Presents The Weird World of Programmatic Los Angeles 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\, December 26. \nPlease join us on Saturdays at noon Los Angeles time for a new live webinar. \n\n\n\nIn the 1920s\, when the sleepy little village of Los Angeles suddenly blossomed into a rocket fueled boomtown\, something very odd and interesting happened to its roadside architecture. \nAlong main arterials and at prominent corners\, savvy developers and ambitious business owners swiftly erected strange buildings that were also commercial signs—shaped like hats and flower pots\, tamales\, zeppelins\, chili bowls\, cameras\, owls\, windmills\, oil cans\, sailing ships\, puppy dogs\, grand pianos\, Egyptian sphinxes\, mushrooms\, hot dogs\, coffee pots\, icebergs\, even crashed aircraft.   \nThese inventive structures\, known by scholars as Programmatic or Mimetic architecture\, attracted the attention of a new class of consumer: automobile riders\, zipping past at speeds that demanded something truly eye-catching to get them to pull over. \nCritics\, too\, took notice of the oddly-shaped structures\, and used them to mock this new city at the end of the continent\, where bad taste was the flavor of the day. \nBut the weird buildings had the last laugh\, with some surviving into the 2020s to become treasured cultural landmarks\, and priceless commercial draws. Today\, the Randy’s Donut chain is expanding with new giant sinker rooftop signs\, and 1933 Group is close to reopening the restored Tail o’ The Pup after their acclaimed restoration of the barrel-shaped Idle Hour in North Hollywood.   \nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, for a virtual exploration of a century of Programmatic architecture and oddball signage\, including rare images and wild tales of the adventures of the strangest structures ever knocked together over a weekend by a couple of hustlers with a dream.   \nYour hosts Kim Cooper and Richard Schave are native Angelenos who have always been interested in Programmatic architecture\, first as the playful backdrop to their imaginations—wee Kim loved to walk into the whale’s mouth doorway at the Fish Shanty reaturant—and much later as a topic for research and interpretation in their bus tours and guidebooks. They even became the voice of a threatened oddball building\, appearing on local newscasts urging L.A. County to pass a preservation ordinance\, when East L.A.’s giant tamale went on the market at a teardown price. (It’s still standing!) \nWe’ll be joined by a very special guest\, architect\, advocate and historian Alan Hess\, who will share insights into the distinctly Southern California programmatic style and his many years working to bring respect and context to roadside vernacular architecture. \nAlan Hess says: “Though most east coast critics used L.A.’s Programmatic architecture as a cudgel to keep us snotty surfer upstarts in our place\, culturally speaking\, these Derbies\, Owls\, Oranges\, Donuts\, Tamales\, and Sphinxes have a much more profound architectural meaning. They were the first creative response to the car culture and the way it would reshape the American city through bolder scale\, wittier visuals\, cinemagraphic fantasias\, and lucid communication for the character of the suburban commercial strip. Even early in the twentieth century\, more insightful critics realized this. Industrial and theatrical designer Norman Bel Geddes wrote in 1932 that such architecture brings ‘unquestionably\, a new liveliness…into architecture and we may yet hear of it as one of the Seven Lively Arts. It can certainly be made as vivacious as the tabloids\, the talkies\, or vaudeville.'” \nAlso joining us is Bobby Green\, principal of 1933 Group\, the Los Angeles hospitality company that has restored the barrel-shaped Idle Hour restaurant\, preserved the replica Bulldog Café from the Petersen Museum\, and reversed the ruin of the Formosa Café. Bobby will share tales from the programmatic restoration trenches and preview upcoming projects\, including the much anticipated return of the Tail o’ the Pup. \nAnd Alison Martino from Vintage Los Angeles will be sharing her insights into the abiding popularity of these oddball buildings. \nTune in for a deep dive into the most curious and compelling only-in-L.A. landmarks that once dotted the landscape\, and those very special structures that survive. \nThis webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with rare photos and video that will bring Los Angeles’ programmatic and signage landscape 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 and Richard will answer your questions about these unusual buildings and their passion for historic preservation\, 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.   \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. \n\nTo sign up\, enter your name and email address and click the “Buy Ticket” button. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \n\nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \n\nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one other 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. \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/programmatic-los-angeles-past/
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Esotouric Presents "A Cultural History of Angels Flight Railway\, 1901-2020" 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 19.  \nPlease join us on Saturdays at noon Los Angeles time for a new live webinar. \n\n\n\n \nIn the 1960s\, as the Community Redevelopment Agency prepared to tear down the Victorian neighborhood of Bunker Hill\, Angelenos (including the editorial pages of the Los Angeles Times) urged them to preserve one small and delightful feature: Colonel J.W. Eddy’s efficient\, charming and portable funicular\, Angels Flight Railway. \nIn 1962\, Angels Flight was declared Historic-Cultural Monument #4\, in recognition of its significance\, and the threat to its survival. And the CRA pledged that the wee conveyance would be stored\, restored (using HUD grants)\, then reinstalled—in a few years\, when there was sufficient development atop the new Bunker Hill. \nAngels Flight was operating as sleepy Los Angeles grew into a metropolis\, and it was still running as old Bunker Hill was scraped away\, carrying occasional passengers up to a grim dusty plain that remained underutilized for many years\, as it became clear that the CRA had made a terrible mistake. \nBut in 1996\, as promised\, Angels Flight returned to service\, ferrying office workers\, history lovers and symphony and museum goers between Grand Central Market and Grand Avenue. \nAnd although its recent tenure has not been without drama and controversy\, Angels Flight stands today as a treasure of old Los Angeles\, its cars Olivet and Sinai twin time capsules that bring a lost world into focus for the bargain  price of a $1 ticket.   \nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, for a webinar celebrating the cultural history of Angels Flight Railway\, from its opening in 1901 through redevelopment\, the long years in storage and its recent revival. \nYour hosts Kim Cooper and Richard Schave have been intrinsically involved in Angels Flight’s most recent return\, having been so upset on seeing the derelict funicular tagged with graffiti that they launched Angels Flight Friends And Neighbors (FANs)\, the advocacy group that successfully petitioned Mayor Eric Garcetti to step in and solve the apparently insurmountable licensing problems plaguing the privately owned Angels Flight. \nJoining us to share their unique insights are Karen Rittenberg\, the great-great niece of Angels Flight owner Robert Moore (1946-1952)\, Greg Moreland\, the grandson of Angels Flight owner Lester B. Moreland (1952-1962)\, and Steve DeWitt\, who is a senior Vice President at ACS Infrastructure\, the funicular’s current operator. Plus\, Bunker Hill historian Nathan Marsak will be in attendance\, along with Bunker Hill native son Gordon Pattison. \nThe webinar will reveal: \n• The colorful private operators who kept Angels Flight humming day and night for decades\, starting with the visionary creator\, Col. J.W. Eddy \n• A tour of the lost landmarks that once surrounded Angels Flight\, down at street level on Hill Street\, flanking the funicular along its tracks up Bunker Hill\, and on the hill itself \n• Angels Flight in popular culture\, as an early cinema and film noir location\, a student film favorite\, in video games (“L.A. Noire”)\, in fiction (John Fante’s “Ask The Dust”)\, and a beloved symbol of nostalgia for a lost Los Angeles for generations of visual artists \n• How Angels Flight survived the long decades in storage to become the star atop the tree of 1990s Bunker Hill redevelopment\, only to quickly flicker out again \n• The terrible story of an arrogant ski lift designer\, a careless redevelopment agency and a tragic passenger\, whose fates converged on a terrible funicular trip in 2001. \n• How Esotouric’s Kim and Richard got involved in saving Angels Flight after its 2013 derailment\, a wild tale that includes Eric Garcetti’s Vogue Magazine feature\, enlisting film producer Harold Nebenzal (“Cabaret\,” “M”) for a funicular fundraiser\, and how Angels Flight advocacy helped to get the Los Angeles Times buildings landmarked \n• Peculiar things about Angels Flight Railway that only its biggest fans might know or notice. \nThis webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with rare photos and video that will bring Angels Flight Railway and old Bunker Hill 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 and Richard will answer your questions about Angels Flight\, Downtown Los Angeles and their passion for historic preservation\, 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.   \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. \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. \nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one other 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. \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/angelsflight-2020-past/
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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SUMMARY:Esotouric Presents “A Cultural History of Grand Central Market\, 1917-2020” 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.  \nPlease join us on Saturdays at noon Los Angeles time for a new live webinar. \n\n\n\nFor more than a century\, the heart and soul of Downtown Los Angeles has been an old-school\, open-air food market in the Homer Laughlin Building at 3rd and Broadway/Hill Streets. Grand Central Market was where generations of bargain hunting Angelenos shopped for spices\, flowers\, baked goods\, specialized cuts of meat\, farm-fresh produce and select prepared delicacies\, both local and imported. \nHere\, multicultural Los Angeles simmered in a vibrant and beautiful melting pot\, where colorful characters plied their trade and influenced the greater world beyond\, through food writing (Jonathan Gold was such a fan he shot part of his documentary in the market\, and the Broadway sidewalk outside was posthumously dedicated in his honor)\, the fine arts (1970s art star Andy Wilf made his name painting animal heads from the butcher counter)\, and cinema (one of the greatest chase scenes ever choreographed is from “Busting” (1974)\, a bloody shootout in Grand Central Market). \nIn the 1980s\, visionary developer Ira Yellin bought the market\, the adjacent Million Dollar Theatre and the Bradbury Building just across Broadway\, convinced that the neglected historic core of Los Angeles could become a vibrant live-work district. His faith and moxie led directly to the adaptive reuse ordinance that transformed empty office towers into residential lofts\, and kickstarted Downtown L.A.’s recent revival. \nAs Downtown boomed in the 2010s\, Grand Central Market changed\, transitioning away from grocery\, deli\, fresh meat and produce to concept-driven prepared food stalls\, and sparking concern about gentrification’s negative impacts and the loss of legacy vendors. But through it all\, Angelenos have come to the market and found good fare\, good company and a golden thread to L.A.’s fascinating past. \nJoin Esotouric\, L.A.’s most eclectic sightseeing tour company\, for a webinar celebrating the cultural history of Grand Central Market\, from 1917-2020\, with a preview of what’s next for the beloved landmark. \nYour hosts Kim Cooper and Richard Schave each have long relationships with Grand Central Market\, through their series of free LAVA Sunday Salons in the basement\, their work steering historical artifacts from the market safe to a safer archival home at the Huntington Library\, patronage going back to decades—and more personally\, Kim’s grandfather Harry delivered Swedish imports to the market in the 1930s\, where he developed a taste for exotic treats that Kim is happy to have inherited. \nIn this webinar\, you’ll get to know Grand Central Market intimately through rare vintage photographs\, film clips and archival documents. You’ll see the market’s development from 1917\, as Los Angeles grew up around it into a metropolis\, and the market adapted to changing demographics\, tastes and innovations. \nYou’ll learn about memorable market stalls—some short-lived\, others that had the distinction of serving multiple generations as legacy vendors. You’ll get to know visionary developer Ira Yellin\, whose love of Downtown inspired him to become Grand Central Market’s second family owner in the 1980s. You’ll see how the market has changed during Downtown’s latest boom cycle\, and how tradition\, neon signage and some longtime vendors remain essential to the place. You’ll be there as Angelenos celebrate Grand Central Market’s 2017 centennial\, and discover how the market helped to save neighboring landmark Angels Flight Railway. And we’ll be joined Adam Daneshgar\, the third family owner\, to learn what’s in store as the market enters its second century.   \nThis webinar is an illustrated lecture packed with original research\, photographs and archival material that will bring Grand Central Market then and now 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 and market owner Adam Daneshgar will answer your questions\, so get ready to be a part of the show. \nSo\, tune in and discover the incredible history of Los Angeles\, with the couple whose passion for the city is infectious. \nCan’t join in when the webinar is happening? You’ll have access to the full replay for one week.   \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. \nTo sign up\, enter your name and email address and click the “Buy Ticket” button. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one other 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. \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/grand-central-market-2020-past/
CATEGORIES:virtual,Webinar
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SUMMARY:The United States of Preservation: Esotouric’s Ohio River Valley Virtual Vacation Road Trip Webinar
DESCRIPTION:Every year around Thanksgiving\, eclectic Los Angeles sightseeing tour company Esotouric organizes an all-day excursion to celebrate co-owner Richard Schave’s birthday and honor the preservation people who keep local landmarks alive. With a buffet lunch\, birthday cake and visits to fascinating sites\, the “birthday bus” is a must for those who love to explore Southern California in good company. \nThis year\, the coronavirus is keeping us apart—but Richard’s preservation party is still happening\, with an immersive virtual road trip that takes you far beyond the borders of Los Angeles and California\, to visit with some fascinating folks who care for historic places in the Ohio River Valley and to learn about their local landmarks. \nFor the first time\, Esotouric fans can join Kim and Richard on an out of state adventure\, replicating a road trip the couple took in 2018\, with guest appearances from stewards of historic places along the route. \nDestinations include: \n\n\n\nJohnstown\, Pennsylvania – settled in the late 1700s\, Johnstown was a port and key transfer point along the Pennsylvania Main Line Canal\, with a rich\, multi-cultural community and fine architecture. But its riverfront valley setting made it uniquely vulnerable to flooding. The Great Flood of 1889 took more than 2200 souls\, and inspired construction of a massive funicular railway system that makes L.A.’s Angels Flight look like a toy. Today\, the town is underpopulated\, with its handsome historic buildings offering opportunity for creative entrepreneurs. We’ll visit with Richard Burkert\, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Johnstown Area Heritage Association\, to learn about his work preserving\, reactivating and interpreting the history the town\, from the National Register Bethlehem Steel blacksmith shop to the Johnstown Flood Museum to the Heritage Discovery Center\, telling the story of the nation through the lives of local immigrants. There’s so much to see and learn in this little town\, you won’t want to leave.\nSteubenville\, Ohio – Named for the early American army defensive Fort Steuben\, this town on the Ohio River is famous as the birthplace of Dean Martin and for its many murals. We’ll be joined by passionate local booster Mark Nelson. Mark serves on the board of the Steubenville Historic Landmarks Foundation\, operates Leonardo’s Coffeehouse & Renaissance Coffee Roasting Co. in the landmark downtown Raney & Sheal Building that he restored\, organizes the annual Steubenville Nutcracker Village & Advent Market and is friends with a giant\, cranky salamander named Branagan. Mark will give us a whistle stop tour of Steubenville’s historic landscape and the creative tools he uses to activate and interpret them\, including a preview of the holiday Nutcracker festivities.\nNew Vrindaban\, West Virginia – An intentional community founded by ISKCON (followers of the Hare Krishna movement) in 1968\, New Vrindaban is home to Prabhupada’s Palace of Gold\, a rare American example of Indo-Saracenic Revival architecture\, the style associated with Raj-era India. Originally constructed by devotees of Krishna as an American residence for their spiritual teacher\, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada\, their devotion gradually transformed the simple dwelling into a magnificent Palace of Gold situated in the beautiful rolling hills of rural West Virginia. The site includes magnificent rose\, terraced and lotus gardens and a brightly colored multi-domed shrine that is all the more remarkable for being the work of amateur architects and builders. For our virtual visit\, we will be joined by Banabhatta Das\, manager of the Palace of Gold. He will share with us the history of the community and its architecture\, describing the challenges of maintaining the buildings through West Virginia’s icy winters and explaining how the Palace of Gold functions as a physical manifestation of Krishna Consciousness. Through its recent addition to the National Register\, preservation of the structures and their cultural legacy serve as a continuing act of focus on Krishna Consciousness that seeks out the higher self within. You’ll be fascinated to learn about this unique spiritual site.\nMehlman Cafeteria (St. Clairsville\, Ohio) – It wouldn’t be an Esotouric tour without a special snack or meal stop. Family owned and operated since 1961\, stepping into this cozy eatery attached to a vintage motel on US Route 40 almost made us sob as we took in its delicious fare\, friendly service\, retro decor and similarities to the still standing\, but too much transformed\, Clifton’s Cafeteria in Downtown Los Angeles. For our virtual visit\, we’ll meet Danielle Mehlman\, fourth generation food service professional\, to learn the history of the cafeteria\, and how they keep the family traditions alive while adapting to 21st century tastes and the challenges of COVID. Keep a napkin handy\, because you’ll find your mouth watering at the sight of such homestyle favorites as mashed potatoes and gravy\, flaky sweet and savory pies\, baked puddings\, turkey dinners\, ham or meat loaf\, prime rib\, apple dumplings\, piping hot soups\, varied jello treats\, and of course Mehlman’s famous creamy\, cheesy broccoli casserole. You’ll understand why Mehlman’s was recently named one of the ten best cafeterias in America by Food & Wine and yearn to pay a real life visit one day.\n\n\n\nThis webinar is a virtual vacation road trip packed with vintage and contemporary photographs that will bring the gems of the Ohio River Valley 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. During the presentation\, our honored guests will answer your questions about the places they care for\, 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. \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. \nTo sign up\, enter your name and email address and click the “Buy Ticket” button. If for any reason the check out page doesn’t appear\, just click this link. \n\n\n\n  \n  \nPlease visit our FAQ for details about our webinars. \nAbout Esotouric: As undergraduates at UC Santa Cruz\, Kim Cooper and Richard Schave inexplicably hated one other 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 ever deeper into the secret heart of the city they love. \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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