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...
by Kim Cooper | Sep 5, 2020 | The Esotouric Blog
As history loving Angelenos enter our sixth trying month of shuttered archives and libraries, the Getty Research Institute just dropped a thrilling bombshell with the release of the Research Collections Viewer, an online access tool to high resolution scans of...
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 | Jan 24, 2017 | The Esotouric Blog
On March 29, Esotouric’s Kim Cooper and Richard Schave are honored to present an illustrated lecture on their offbeat Southern California history research at the legendary Los Angeles Breakfast Club. This will be followed by a book signing, featuring Kim’s...
by Kim Cooper | Mar 31, 2016 | The Esotouric Blog
In the early morning hours of December 6, 1959 in a handsome Spanish-style mansion in hilly Los Feliz, California, Dr. Harold Perelson took up a hammer and murdered his wife Lillian in her bed, then attempted to kill his sleeping daughter Judy. But his aim was poor,...
