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 | Apr 22, 2019 | The Esotouric Blog
As we dug into our back pages to revive an early Esotouric sightseeing tour, John Fante’s Dreams from Bunker Hill (returning to the streets on Saturday, April 27), we got a hot tip about a new-to-us archive of Downtown streetscape photographs held at UCLA...
by Kim Cooper | Jan 12, 2018 | The Esotouric Blog
Over on the California State Archives website there’s a terrific new collection of amateur travel photography by William and Grace McCarthy, San Franciscans who traveled widely, camera at the ready, between 1905 and 1938. We’re still digging through their...
by Kim Cooper | Jul 25, 2017 | The Esotouric Blog
Once upon a time, in a sillier city, Jay Ward thought it would be fun to open a store at 8200 Sunset Boulevard, next to his animation studio at the eastern terminus of the Sunset Strip. From 1972 through 2004, Dudley Do-Right’s Emporium was the place the find oddball...
by Kim Cooper | Oct 11, 2016 | The Esotouric Blog
When lost Los Angeles is your beat, as it is ours, you’re dependent on the stray relics that survive in photographic archives, books and on film. The buildings and vistas that obsess us were captured at precise moments and specific angles, and while we’re...
