by Kim Cooper | Jul 18, 2017 | The Esotouric Blog
Hello there, lover of old Los Angeles and the colorful places where grim fate sets its traps. Have you wondered what’s doing with Thelma Todd’s Beach Cafe, recently sold for a lowball $6 Million and its future uncertain? We sure have. We stopped by this week, and...
by Kim Cooper | Jun 26, 2017 | The Esotouric Blog
Update 8/8/2023: On a recent trip to Hill Street, when passing the Subway Terminal Building we were intrigued to see a cherry picker parked under the arch of the long shuttered ticket concourse, with the pendant lamp and mosaic frieze wrapped in protective plastic....
by Kim Cooper | Apr 21, 2017 | The Esotouric Blog
For the past few weeks, we’ve been offering support and advice to Doug Quill, the filmmaker who has been petitioning to keep a 1929 bungalow on The Lot (formerly Goldwyn Studios and United Artists) from being demolished for an expansion of LADWP’s...
by Kim Cooper | Aug 9, 2016 | The Esotouric Blog
The Subway Terminal Building was erected in 1925 in the 400 block of South Hill Street, in response to congestion in the growing metropolis of Los Angeles. Here, for thirty bustling years, passengers descended into a cavernous station, where they boarded Hollywood-...
by Kim Cooper | Mar 31, 2016 | The Esotouric Blog
In the early morning hours of December 6, 1959 in a handsome Spanish-style mansion in hilly Los Feliz, California, Dr. Harold Perelson took up a hammer and murdered his wife Lillian in her bed, then attempted to kill his sleeping daughter Judy. But his aim was poor,...
