by Kim Cooper | Feb 28, 2016 | The Esotouric Blog
Long on our list of iconic Southern California sites to see was Rancho Camulos, the Spanish land grant rancho in the Santa Clara River Valley near Piru that inspired Helen Hunt Jackson’s novel of old Californio life, Ramona (1884). On Sunday, we had a chance to...
by Kim Cooper | Sep 18, 2015 | The Esotouric Blog
Did Los Angeles poet and novelist Charles Bukowski ever have a childhood? Well, he was small here, in this Spanish style house in the West Adams district, where his brute of a father made him mow the lawn with a precision that no human boy could master, then beat him...
by Kim Cooper | Mar 14, 2015 | The Esotouric Blog
High in the Hollywood Hills, the 1927 Spanish castle that top cinematographer Oliver Marsh built was in pretty shabby shape by 1967, when wrestler/actor/carpenter George Ehling picked it up. Instead of restoring, he transformed the place into something brand new. Over...
