by Kim Cooper | Jun 27, 2022 | The Esotouric Blog
The following is a guest post by Beverly Hills city councilmember John Mirisch, which originally appeared on the Vintage Los Angeles Facebook page. We believe his observations on the June 21, 2022 Beverly Hills city council hearing, during which the way was cleared...
by Kim Cooper | Jun 18, 2022 | The Esotouric Blog
We were curious about membership numbers for the Los Angeles Conservancy through the pandemic, so looked up their their 990 tax filings on the California Charities Registry. Although we have viewed their page in the past, the Los Angeles Conservancy didn’t come...
by Kim Cooper | May 13, 2022 | The Esotouric Blog
In the central quad of Rancho Los Amigos South Campus in Downey stand two majestic ornamental Australian Bunya Bunya (Araucaria bidwillii) trees that date back to the founding of the County Poor Farm in the late 19th century. Recently, the taller of the two trees (tag...
by Kim Cooper | May 4, 2022 | The Esotouric Blog
Q: If a 1950s air raid siren falls in South Los Angeles, will anybody come and get it? Obsolete infrastructure can be beautiful in its decay, but not when it fails, spilling potentially deadly hunks of steel onto private property. When Siren No. 184 came down, we got...
by Kim Cooper | Apr 24, 2022 | The Esotouric Blog
Partial demolition for the landmark Morrison Hotel (Morgan, Walls and Morgan, 1914)? That’s the plan of Relevant Group, the developer that’s currently facing a Congressional investigation over alleged EB-5 Chinese investor visa fraud for its Hollywood hotels. But it...