by Kim Cooper | Oct 17, 2018 | The Esotouric Blog
This is a guest post by Carlton Davis, who was the proprietor of The Art Dock drive-in gallery in the historic Pickle Works building in Downtown Los Angeles’ Arts District in the 1980s. We interviewed Carlton about this extraordinary, endangered landmark in 2013...
by Kim Cooper | Dec 29, 2016 | The Esotouric Blog
Gentle reader… As we slam the door on 2016, 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 | Mar 17, 2016 | The Esotouric Blog
When our friend Susan Phillips–the graffiti scholar who recently took us to the Confluence of the Los Angeles River and Arroyo Seco to see century-old hobo inscriptions–told us about a riverside tunnel that had been elaborately carved by one...
by Kim Cooper | Feb 1, 2016 | The Esotouric Blog
If you read our most recent newsletter, you know how excited we are to have learned that some 102-year-old hobo graffiti survives on the undersides of bridges in the L.A. River. Today, we descended into the concrete channel with historian Susan Phillips to see some of...
by Kim Cooper | Jan 2, 2016 | The Esotouric Blog
This weekend* is your last chance to take a stroll across the iconic Sixth Street Bridge, that grand Art Deco passage between Boyle Heights and the Arts District. We were there tonight in the golden hour, along with dozens of bridge lovers armed with cameras,...
