by Kim Cooper | Jul 11, 2018 | The Esotouric Blog
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: A venerable local newspaper, fallen on hard times in the aftermath of the financial crisis, sells its architecturally-significant, centrally-located Art Deco headquarters and two attached buildings, comprising an entire...
by Kim Cooper | Jun 29, 2018 | The Esotouric Blog
Twelve years ago this week, Alicia Bay Laurel married us in the garden of the Velaslavasay Panorama with psychic cats, a cool jazz trio, eats by Papa Cristo’s, Ernst Haeckel sheet cakes, Scholium Project wine (thanks, Abe), and all our friends. It’s been a...
by Kim Cooper | Jan 2, 2018 | The Esotouric Blog
Gentle reader… As we slam the door on 2017, it’s time for that annual Esotouric tradition: our very opinionated list of the past year’s Top Los Angeles Historic Preservation Stories. Because preservation is never as simple as buildings being lost forever or rescued...
by Kim Cooper | Sep 22, 2017 | The Esotouric Blog
2025 update: Sowden House (exterior only), which has new owners since we published this post in 2017, is a stop on our new Hollywood Noir walking tour. Welcome to the sixth in a series of 3-D explorable tours of historic Los Angeles spaces, created by Craig Sauer...
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....
