Get your history for free this Sunday, May 19 when the annual Museums of the Arroyo (MOTA) Day welcomes visitors to check out a slice of SoCal life from way back when. Three Highland Park museums and Heritage Square in Montecito Heights team up with two ... Read More »
Never heard of the song “Echo Park” by Buzz Clifford? How about the “California Polka” by Miss Julia W. Pomeroy? Know the tune to “Take Me Out to Venice” by Tess Hankinson and Martin G. Van Bergen? If you are not familiar with these rather obscure ... Read More »
Rising four stories and topped by a blue-and-white neon rooftop sign, the brick Lewelleyn Manor at the northeast corner of Temple Street and Rampart Boulevard commands attention like few other nearby buildings can. The 46-unit apartment building with a night club on the ground level was built ... Read More »
It’s been more than 45 years since Elysian Park hosted what is said to have been Los Angeles’ first love-in, a 1960s era spectacle of 1960s flower power and proto-hipster youth culture. A reminder of this event is now up for grabs in the form of ... Read More »
The City Council on Tuesday approved declaring the Eagle Rock home where Ben Affleck and Matt Damon worked on the award-winning movie “Good Will Hunting” a historic-cultural monument. Also granted landmark status was the Donnelly House, a Folk-Victorian home that was moved to Garvanza from Chinatown ... Read More »
The two-story concrete Dayton Avenue Signal Tower was built more than 80 years ago to help direct traffic over the Taylor Yard, the Southern Pacific rail yard that sprawled along the L.A. River in Cypress Park. Southern Pacific left Taylor Yard many years ago but ... Read More »
With Echo Park Lake scheduled to reopen next month after being closed for nearly two years, some familiar sights and landmarks have emerged beyond the green construction fencing that circles the park. Today, for example, the fountains in the middle of the lake once again soared ... Read More »
That will be the question facing the buyer of this Whittier Boulevard property in East Los Angeles that is home to a classic piece of roadside architecture, the former Tamale Cafe. The answer will likely be “Tear It Down,” fears Esotouric tour company co-owner Kim Cooper, ... Read More »
Jackson Browne shares stories about his Highland Park family home during a stop in the dungeon. /Photo by Martha Benedict From a bell tower and chapel to a pipe organ and a dungeon-like basement, the nearly century old Abbey San Encino, a Highland Park landmark clad ... Read More »
By Nicole Possert A rare glimpse inside a Medieval-style landmark of Arroyo Culture – the Abbey San Encino in Highland Park – will be available to the public this coming Sunday, April 21, as part of a fundraising for Highland Park Heritage Trust. This private home built ... Read More »