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Save Sunshine, the Last Palm on old Bunker Hill
Have you ever noticed Sunshine? That’s the name Downtown denizen Annette Zilinskas gave to a lonely, neglected Queen Palm that for many years had stood proudly above 2nd and Hill […]
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Eagle Tree Clone Distribution Project
The great Eagle Tree, a native Western Sycamore (Platanus racemosa), stood for centuries in what is now the City of Compton as a natural landmark. The tree was so remarkable in […]
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Responding to Steve Hodel’s claim that Esotouric cares about money, not truth, in the case of Black Dahlia murder victim Beth Short
Last Saturday—as we have about four times a year since Esotouric debuted in 2007—we booked a coach class bus on which to guide a large group on a tour about […]
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Save the Parrot Tree at Santa Ana Main Library (destroyed 12/11/24)
Something worrying has been happening in the City of Santa Ana: bureaucrats, rushing to spend a $9.3 Million critical maintenance and infrastructure grant from the California State Library “Building Forward” […]
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The Literary Map of Los Angeles
In 1985, the husband-and-wife team of Aaron Silverman and Molly Maguire published the first of what the Library of Congress would later call “the decade’s most exciting American maps,” The […]
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Haunts & Havens of Charles Bukowski self-guided tour
Discover Charles Bukowski’s Los Angeles, as revealed through the filter of Esotouric’s acclaimed tour of the writer’s lost and surviving city. If you can’t make it for a group tour, this self-guided tour in booklet form is the next best thing, designed to take you along with the…
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The Raymond Chandler Map of Los Angeles (vintage and new)
Written by Esotouric’s Kim Cooper and designed by acclaimed illustrator Paul Rogers, this new, noir map from U.K. wayfinding mavens Herb Lester is a must for those who seek lost […]
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As Curren Price is indicted for public corruption, we make public comment on the dirty Los Angeles Times landmarking matter
Even though the matter of the Times Mirror Square / Historic-Cultural Monument was officially deemed “Council action final” on 12/07/2018, we keep that hoping new indictments will finally blow the […]
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City of Los Angeles: Don’t Demolish the Lincoln Heights Jail!
This week, Los Angeles City Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez introduced a motion acknowledging that the proposed redevelopment of the Lincoln Heights Jail into a “maker’s district” is not actually happening. Her […]
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Just another Thursday night in the City of Angels.
The following is a guest post from Kevin Trujillo Miller, about what he saw last night at Central Library during ALOUD’s program, Surviving Homelessness & Foster Care: A conversation with […]
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Bungalow Court Housing in Los Angeles Mapped
Bungalow courts are a distinctive, desirable and unfortunately endangered early 20th century form of workforce housing. These modest double (or sometimes single) rows of small cottages with shared community green […]
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Former Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Raymond Chan, on trial for racketeering, wrote a smarmy LADBS leadership guide… and we’ve got it!
History doesn’t repeat, but in Los Angeles sometimes it rhymes something fierce. In the first verse, we’ve got Chicago émigré Raymond Chandler, the early 20th century downtown oil man who […]
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Help Save the Mabel Normand Studio Bungalow at Sunset Junction
Some weeks, it seems like every time we check our email or DMs, there’s a new preservation crisis brewing, and some desperate, caring, exasperated Angeleno who feels compelled to tell […]
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Illegal Airbnb listing of a rent controlled unit in Charles Bukowski’s East Hollywood bungalow court exposes Pillow & Coffee, a short term rental empire destroying Los Angeles
This investigation is published on the 29th anniversary of Charles Bukowski’s death. In 2007, while writing our tour of Bukowski’s Los Angeles, we spotted a Craigslist ad that listed the […]
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Scoop: What the heck is happening at Skid Row Housing Trust?
Original post February 10, 2023 (scroll down for updates): On Tuesday, while we were trying to get away from L.A.’s problems by spending my birthday exploring inland empire landmarks, the […]
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Demolition threatens Edith Northman’s 1927 Boyle Heights road house
A sad update, 2/4/2023: according to angelenoheart, the roadhouse was demolished today. We confirmed this with a visit on 2/11/2023. Nothing new was built to replace it; it became a […]
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Esotouric’s sentencing letter to Judge John F. Walter for Shen Zhen New World I LLC / Wei Huang
January 17, 2022 To the Honorable John F. Walter United States Courthouse 350 W. 1st Street Los Angeles, CA 90012 Courtroom 7A c/o Courtroom Deputy Clerk Shannon Reilly shannon_reilly@cacd.uscourts.gov [update: […]
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What is happening the Orpheum Theatre marquee?
A worrying photo appeared in a Facebook development group Tuesday afternoon, showing the backlit plastic readerboard on Broadway’s Orpheum Theatre marquee partially dismantled. The post was immediately shared among concerned […]
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Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd… that you can explore in 3-D while listening to Lana Del Rey’s song about Jergins Tunnel?
Welcome to auspicious #13 in a series of 3-D explorable tours of off-the-beaten-path Southern California spaces, created by Craig Sauer using cutting-edge Matterport technology. Jergins Tunnel If you’ve been paying […]
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Seeking Answers about the Rancho Los Amigos / Los Angeles County Poor Farm Potter’s Field Cemetery
In October 2022, we made a video expressing our concerns about the old Potter’s Field Cemetery at 11269 Garfield Avenue in Downey, and the unanswered question of what happened to […]