Just a couple of lifers looking out for Los Angeles. History tours, preservation. Newsletter: https://t.co/k7ejaB2cJF Venmo @esotouric
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Would be interested to see @YsabelJuradoLA platform George Esparza's message about what happened in the CD14 offices and how the extended City Family enabled it. Because the press is not doing it, and nothing will change until citizens hear the truth and the machine is exposed.
Monica Mejia from ELACC is asking the community for help with Peabody-Werden House. It's "very very old." Needs a lot of work. Does not want to see the house landmarked. Hey, c'mon! 
Traditionally around Thanksgiving, we offer a tour that’s even more elaborate and ambitious than a regular Esotouric adventure. This doubles as Richard’s birthday celebration, and we bring cake.
If you care about Los Angeles landmarks, you’re probably a member of the Los Angeles Conservancy—which claims to be the largest member based historic preservation organization in the US—or have taken part in their walking tours or film screenings in historic Broadway theaters.
Bungalow courts are a distinctive, desirable & unfortunately endangered early 20th century form of workforce housing. These modest double (or sometimes single) rows of small cottages with shared community green space are usually under rent control, & much loved by their tenants. 
General public comment is for YOU if there is a threat to an historic building in your community. Please call in and use your minute to alert the CHC who can ask staff to investigate. Ex. 1: in Silver Lake, an RSO bungalow court is being illegally gutted! instagram.com/p/CqVxkaXJGZN/
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 DTLA oil man who suppressed his literary ambitions while rising in the business world & taking careful note of 
If you drive around LA you see a lot of new development & much of is essentially the same project: a dense apt or co-living complex built flush to the sidewalk, taller than anything on the block, usually clad in discordant colored panels and with perpetually vacant retail below. 
Fox 11 picked up last night's East Hollywood fire and like LAFD misidentifies the radio studio as a commercial-to-residential conversion. It's nuts dozens of unpermitted beds can burn and reporters are just, oh, apartment fire. foxla.com/news/25-people… 
Here is our email to RAP.Commissioners@lacity.org, contactCD4@lacity.org @nithyavraman,
They are now reading Gil Cedillo's profoundly dishonest letter misrepresenting Morris Kight's gay rights activity at 1822 West 4th Street into the record, seeking a memorial sign after demolition. This is the gross backwash of Mitch O'Farrell's Taix attacks on preservation law. 
This means that most of the restaurant, including the lovely bar and James Ellroy's favorite back booth where we we hashed out details of his Christmas 2007 guided Esotouric bus tour of his childhood haunts, are not considered significant. 
We were giddy to see this new addition to the Barclay's lobby furniture: a chess set, in honor of Raymond Chandler's detective Philip Marlowe, who found a man with an ice pick in his neck, upstairs in room 332, in "The Little Sister." One day we'll sit and play a game. 