by Kim Cooper | Nov 23, 2020 | The Esotouric Blog
In the late 1920s, as Los Angeles was becoming one of the world centers for tire manufacturing, architects Aleck Curlett and Claud Beelman were hired to design a sprawling Renaissance Revival factory complex for Firestone Tire and Rubber Company in South Gate. The...
by Kim Cooper | Mar 31, 2019 | The Esotouric Blog
Update 6/28/2023: The Southwest Museum of the American Indian no longer exists. Sure, you can still see the big white building shining on Mount Washington, overlooking the Arroyo Seco and founder Charles Fletcher Lummis’ home, but according to Google maps,...
by Kim Cooper | Feb 4, 2019 | The Esotouric Blog
In exposing one distressing historic architecture world mystery, The Los Angeles Times might have just solved a second one. As we read The Times’ story about the unreported theft of significant decorative objects from a Los Angeles warehouse, we were reminded of...
by Kim Cooper | Jul 10, 2018 | The Esotouric Blog
[To access the basement / speakeasy level, click the blue dot at the top of the stairs through the arch at the left of the check in desk, or just click here.] Welcome to the ninth in a series of 3-D explorable tours of off-the-beaten-path Los Angeles spaces, created...
by Kim Cooper | Sep 22, 2017 | The Esotouric Blog
Welcome to the sixth in a series of 3-D explorable tours of historic Los Angeles spaces, created by Craig Sauer using cutting-edge Matterport technology. This one is special, as for the first time in our partnership, Craig got us inside a building we’ve been longing...
