by Kim Cooper | May 13, 2019 | The Esotouric Blog
SIGN THE ORIGINAL 2019 LACMA LOVERS LEAGUE PETITION here. For several years, through our Pereira in Peril campaign, we have been part of a small and disparate collection of preservationists, architecture critics and Miracle Mile community members concerned about the...
by Kim Cooper | Apr 29, 2019 | The Esotouric Blog
< The original name of this page was “Petition to Save the American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Theatre” – Click here to sign the petition. < UPDATE NOVEMBER 18, 2025: The American Cinematheque is to take over programming and operations of the...
by Kim Cooper | Apr 25, 2019 | The Esotouric Blog
Today, in partnership with The Late Group, we celebrate the 110th birthday of William Pereira, one of the most influential shapers of mid-twentieth-century California. His scope and innovations range from the LAX Theme Building (our Eiffel Tower) to LACMA (the...
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 | Apr 5, 2019 | The Esotouric Blog
When Hollywood gadfly and anti-corruption activist John Walsh died in early 2019, Los Angeles City Council showed its contempt for the man by adjourning in his honor—knowing, no doubt that he had asked that this never happen, for “even in death, I would consider...
