by Kim Cooper | Jan 22, 2022 | The Esotouric Blog
The following is a guest post from Maryam Hosseinzadeh, a concerned local who asked us to share this timely alert and hopes that you’ll share it widely before the Monday noon deadline: ALERT! PASADENA – For more than 100 years, a sleepy corner of Pasadena...
by Kim Cooper | Jan 9, 2022 | The Esotouric Blog
There’s something wonderful happening on “The Nickel,” the portion of Fifth Street that connects the gritty Skid Row neighborhood of Downtown Los Angeles with the business district to the West: the early 20th century residency hotels whose owners...
by Kim Cooper | Dec 28, 2021 | The Esotouric Blog
(This post appeared in a slightly different form in our newsletter.) We were approached months ago by good friends of the cloistered Dominican nuns who live at The Monastery of the Angels with whispered worries that after being hard hit by the pandemic, the nearly...
by Kim Cooper | Nov 3, 2021 | The Esotouric Blog
Update, January 12, 2022: for instructions on filing a complaint about the ongoing destruction of the Pig ‘N Whistle, click here. On October 23, photos first circulated on social media showing workers on top of the awning of the historic Pig ‘n Whistle...
by Kim Cooper | Oct 20, 2021 | The Esotouric Blog
When people ask why we get so involved in historic preservation advocacy, despite the frustrations of fighting a pro-development City Hall that’s under multiple indictments for land use corruption, we answer that we feel called to do the work, want to be of...
