" data-image-caption="<p>Shows El Aliso (and by extension the Vignes property). Attributed to Henri Penelon</p>" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/esotouric.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/peupmut7byvtcyfxahlr.jpg?fit=300%2C203&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/esotouric.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/peupmut7byvtcyfxahlr.jpg?fit=636%2C431&ssl=1" src="https://i0.wp.com/esotouric.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/peupmut7byvtcyfxahlr.jpg?resize=636%2C431&ssl=1" alt="Shows El Aliso (and by extension the Vignes property). Attributed to Henri Penelon" width="636" height="431" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6473" data-recalc-dims="1" />
Shows El Aliso (and by extension the Vignes property). Attributed to Henri Penelon
Once Upon A Time in French-Speaking Los Angeles & Early Days of Angels Flight on Old Bunker Hill
Join us this month as we talk with C.C. de Vere, creator of the Frenchtown Confidential blog, who pulls back the velvet curtain to reveal the deep yet forgotten Gallic roots of the city of Los Angeles, the subject of her free LAVA Sunday Salon and walking tour on September 24. We’ll also visit with Nathan Marsak, star of the viral video series The Cranky Preservationist, about the re-opening of Angels Flight Railway and the lost landscape of old Bunker Hill, the funicular’s original home.
We’ll also discuss:
Angels Flight Railway’s starts and stops. Our preservation petition helped get it going again.
Family bankruptcy puts Richard Neutra’s lyrical post-and-beam Chuey House (1956) at risk of demolition.
Concerned Palisades neighbors hope to landmark John L. Kennedy House, the 1930 Spanish gem bought by notorious landlord Jerome Nash. (PDF link)
Hollywood Heritage files landmark application for (Chaplin-owned?) Formosa storybook cottages Casler Village Court, whose pretty neighbor was just demolished. (PDF link)
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" data-image-caption="<p>Northern Facade Hill Street Tunnel-Single Bore (@ Temple)</p>" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/esotouric.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/tunnelnorthfromtemple.jpg?fit=300%2C246&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/esotouric.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/tunnelnorthfromtemple.jpg?fit=540%2C442&ssl=1" />
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" data-image-caption="<p>Jean-Louis Vignes’ brandy still and strainer. On display at the Natural History Museum.</p>" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/esotouric.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/img_1771.jpg?fit=225%2C300&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/esotouric.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/img_1771.jpg?fit=768%2C1024&ssl=1" />
" data-image-caption="<p>Opening Scene “Crisscross,” 1949. 2nd & Hill-double bore tunnel</p>" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/esotouric.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/crisscross.jpg?fit=300%2C222&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/esotouric.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/crisscross.jpg?fit=540%2C400&ssl=1" />
" data-image-caption="<p>Map of Tunnels in Dowtown Los Angeles from mid 1930s</p>" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/esotouric.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/dtla-tunnels-map-usgs-1928-thumb-600x428-93469.jpg?fit=300%2C214&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/esotouric.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/dtla-tunnels-map-usgs-1928-thumb-600x428-93469.jpg?fit=600%2C428&ssl=1" />
" data-image-caption="<p>Park on Hill Street Atop The Double Bore Tunnel</p>" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/esotouric.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/hillsttunnelpark.jpg?fit=291%2C300&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/esotouric.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/hillsttunnelpark.jpg?fit=615%2C634&ssl=1" />
" data-image-caption="<p>Grand salon at Rancho Los Encinos. The exposed faux marbre was added by the Garnier brothers.</p>" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/esotouric.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/img_1618.jpg?fit=225%2C300&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/esotouric.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/img_1618.jpg?fit=768%2C1024&ssl=1" />