DTLA Talks: Angels Flight's Historic Re-Opening In Los Angeles | Splash News TV
Historic Angels Flight has re-opened in Los Angeles and Kelly Russo and crew were there to document the occasion! Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti shared a few words with as as well as Richard Schave from the amazing Los Angeles history tour company Esotouric and even an appearance by the Cranky Preservationist.
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Esotouric's Boyle Heights tour preview - Part Two, Professor Mark Wild
On Sunday, February 20, 2011, Esotouric debuts a new bus adventure -- Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles: Boyle Heights, hosted by Boyle Heights native Sean Carrillo and Esotouric's Richard Schave.
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As a preview of this extraordinary event, Richard Schave has tramped across the east side, filming background interviews with three intriguing characters whose studies and life experience reveal some of the unknown history of this fascinating Los Angeles neighborhood.
Part One features David Kipen, former Director of Literature for the NEA and since mid-2010 proprietor of Libros Schmibros, a lending library and bookshop in the heart of Boyle Heights' bourgeoning arts district. Libros Schmibros is a stop on the bus tour, and in his interview, David explains just how this Beverly Hills boy came back to the old neighborhood to promote literacy and conversation just as the neighborhood's libraries were locking their doors.
For Part Two, we go to the back side of Union Station, a concrete patch bordered by freeway, helicopter landing pad and parking lots, but once the home of the visionary social activism of the Bethlehem Institute, led by Dana Bartlett. Here, in the parking lot of a Denny's, Cal State Los Angeles history professor Mark Wild untangles a century's worth of community-building which led straight to Breed Street and the youthful creative awakening of the tour's co-host Sean Carrillo at the All Nations Neighborhood Center.
In Part Three, it's off to Skid Row, and the site of an outrageous May 1970 shooting of Mexican nationals by L.A. and San Leandro police which led U.S. Attorney Robert Meyer to race to the scene and place survivors in protective custody. Three months later, the killing of journalist Ruben Salazar would pit Meyer against his political mentor, Sheriff Peter Pitchess. Meyer's son Richard Meyer tells the tale of the Seventh Street Shooting to tour co-host Richard Schave, and will be on the bus to share personal insights into the Salazar investigation.
Esotouric's Boyle Heights tour preview - Part Three, Richard Meyer
On Sunday, February 20, 2011, Esotouric debuts a new bus adventure -- Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles: Boyle Heights, hosted by Boyle Heights native Sean Carrillo and Esotouric's Richard Schave.
TOUR INFO -
As a preview of this extraordinary event, Richard Schave has tramped across the east side, filming background interviews with three intriguing characters whose studies and life experience reveal some of the unknown history of this fascinating Los Angeles neighborhood.
Part One features David Kipen, former Director of Literature for the NEA and since mid-2010 proprietor of Libros Schmibros, a lending library and bookshop in the heart of Boyle Heights' bourgeoning arts district. Libros Schmibros is a stop on the bus tour, and in his interview, David explains just how this Beverly Hills boy came back to the old neighborhood to promote literacy and conversation just as the neighborhood's libraries were locking their doors.
For Part Two, we go to the back side of Union Station, a concrete patch bordered by freeway, helicopter landing pad and parking lots, but once the home of the visionary social activism of the Bethlehem Institute, led by Dana Bartlett. Here, in the parking lot of a Denny's, Cal State Los Angeles history professor Mark Wild untangles a century's worth of community-building which led straight to Breed Street and the youthful creative awakening of the tour's co-host Sean Carrillo at the All Nations Neighborhood Center.
In Part Three, it's off to Skid Row, and the site of an outrageous May 1970 shooting of Mexican nationals by L.A. and San Leandro police which led U.S. Attorney Robert Meyer to race to the scene and place survivors in protective custody. Three months later, the killing of journalist Ruben Salazar would pit Meyer against his political mentor, Sheriff Peter Pitchess. Meyer's son Richard Meyer tells the tale of the Seventh Street Shooting to tour co-host Richard Schave, and will be on the bus to share personal insights into the Salazar investigation.
A Virtual Visit to Clifton's Cafeteria, 2010
On this Thanksgiving Eve 2014, in memory of absent friends, we share the photographs of Derek Hutchison, from the March 2010 edition of the Esotouric bus adventure Hotel Horrors & Main Street Vice. Music: Just Gone by the Loud Family.
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Esotouric presents In The Land of the Bungalow - A Route 66 Tour Preview
In this musical preview of Esotouric's Route 66 bus adventure, tour host Richard Schave and his friend The Ukulady stop to take the air in the shade of E. Waldo Ward's century-old orange orchard. Join them to hear a snippet of a 1929 bungalow booster's anthem and a bit about what you can expect if you climb aboard the bus for this occasional excursion into the eastern San Gabriel valley.
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Eye on LA tags along on LAVA's 2013 Dutch Chocolate Shop Tour
Sneak a peek at one of Downtown Los Angeles' most beguiling hidden treasures as LAVA - The Los Angeles Visionaries Association gives a tour of Ernest Batchelder's Dutch Chocolate Shop. Also in this clip: Andrew Meieran shows off the then-newly rediscovered neon tube in Clifton's Cafeteria basement and the El Monte Historical Museum shows off its collection of Gay's Lion Farm ephemera.
Intrigued and want to learn more? You can visit all of these historic sites on Esotouric's bus adventures into the secret heart of L.A -- come ride!
LAVA Sunday Salon extras: Nathan Marsak on L.A. Noire
LAVA - The Los Angeles Visionaries Association presents Nathan Marsak's introduction to The Flâneur & The City: Downtown Los Angeles in the age of digital reproduction (L.A. Noire walking tour)
ABOUT THE TOUR
For the latest installment of urban historian Richard Schave's site-specific discussion series The Flâneur & The City, Richard (Esotouric bus adventures) is joined by architectural historian Nathan Marsak (1947project, On Bunker Hill).
On this excursion we'll explore the downtown cityscape, paying particular attention to some of the places that have been digitally re-created in the new video game L.A. Noire. We'll explore how Rockstar/Team Bondi's simulacrum of 1947 downtown Los Angeles holds up, where and how it succeeds and fails, and why you should care. We'll visit the Spring Arcade, a 1923 reproduction of London's iconic Burlington Arcade (1819), the Barclay Hotel (whose halls and color palate have been borrowed for various other places within the game), Clifton's Brookdale (our rendezvous point), Angels Flight, and various historic sites which no longer remain, but which live again in what may prove to be a tremendously successful video game.
ABOUT THE TOUR SERIES: The Flâneur & The City is an ongoing attempt to explore some of the more important issues revealed by the constantly changing heart of the metropolis. The core notion of the series is of culture and history as commodities that are packaged and sold to a target demographic; meanwhile, it's the ignored and seemingly worthless scraps of meaning found on the sidewalks and marketplaces where the true remnants of positive public space can be found. All interpretations and nuisances of the word flâneur are examined—from the modern-day aesthete dreaming of Baudelaire while carried along in the human tide past the stalls and shops of Broadway, to its more recent and perhaps relevant use, someone who is loitering. At its heart this series is a celebration of the simple act of getting out of your car, walking through a neighborhood and learning to see it with your own eyes.
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You Can't Eat the Sunshine Episode #97: Citrus, Books & Air Rights
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You Can’t Eat the Sunshine is the podcast of Esotouric, the offbeat Los Angeles company that turns the notion of guided bus tours on its ear. Each week, join Kim Cooper and Richard Schave on their Southern California adventures, as they visit with fascinating characters for wide-ranging interviews that reveal the myths, contradictions, inspirations and passions of the place. There’s never been a city quite like Los Angeles. Tune in if you’d like to find out why.
Join us this week as we talk with Bill Martinet, a retired employee of the Sunkist corporation, about the year he spent working in the gorgeous, now-demolished Sunkist Building (1935) opposite L.A.‘s Central Library. We’ll also visit with Donald Spivack, former Deputy Chief of Operations and Policy at the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency, to learn about the terrible Central Library fire of 1986, and the redevelopment plan that saved the building.
Our Theme Song is by The Ukulady
LAVA Broadway on My Mind walking tour #11: R.B. Young & Downtown L.A. Sidewalks (July 2014)
The Flâneur & The Broadway On My Mind walking tour #11 (LAVA - The Los Angeles Visionaries Association)
This tour was hosted by Richard Schave with Donald Spivack and Gordon Pattison. The themes were the architecture of R.B. Young, The Spring Arcade building, gentrification of Grand Central Market, affective ownership, the Pantages and the Cameo and Roxie Theatres. The last half of the tour goes into the complex public/private sidewalk preservation and funding issues along Broadway and how temporary changes enacted for the Broadway Streetscape Master Plan are impacting expensive permanent street and sidewalk work.
ABOUT THE TOUR SERIES:
In July 2013, LAVA - The Los Angeles Visionaries Association launched a series of six monthly walking tours along Broadway meant to raise consciousness about the Broadway Theater and Commercial District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and the pending implementation of Strategy One, Phase One of the City of Los Angeles' Broadway Streetscape Master Plan. Each walking tour will follow and depart from the free LAVA Sunday Salon.
Stretching from 2nd Street to Olympic, the District contains the most intact collection of Beaux-Arts buildings in Los Angeles, and the largest collection of historic theaters anywhere in the United States.
As Broadway's vast scope and scale can be overwhelming, on each walking tour we will look closely at several different historic buildings, in order to acclimatize the observer to better understand and appreciate the whole. We will also be looking at the historic streetscape, with attention paid to street lights, sidewalks (terrazzo in particular), basement hatches, sidewalk vents, glass blocks, manhole covers, granite curbs and signage.
About This Tour:
This month’s tour is the second of several tours focused on the architecture of Robert Brown Young, including discussion of Clifton's Cafeteria, the difficulty of preserving or landmarking decorative terrazzo, recent damage to the Art Deco facades of 533 and 735 South Broadway, Swelldom, Bringing Back Broadway, the Tahoma Building, the OT Johnson Building and the OT Johnson Block, as well as a notable freakshow presentation in 1915.
Our goal with these tours is to explore the history of the built environment on Broadway, while seeking to understand the scope of the work of Strategy One, Phase One of the Broadway Streetscape Master Plan and the Road Diet, which has recently begun.
Motivation for this tour series:
With City Council's June 2013 approval of funding for Strategy One, Phase One of the Broadway Streetscape Master Plan, we believe that it is it is imperative to develop a greater public awareness and understanding of Broadway's architectural and scenic qualities, and to bring the informed voices of the community into discussion of the proposed changes and alterations. We believe that no element of Broadway's streetscape can be altered without causing a transformation of the whole, requiring careful consideration before any permanent or semi-permanent changes are made. Broadway's architectural character is defined not by any single feature (uniform height limits, predominance of theaters) or single landmark building (Eastern Columbia, Bradbury Building, Los Angeles Theater), but upon the concord of all of it, and the strength of the impression which all together they provide. No feature or building is of dominant importance, but each contributes, and all are vitally fused together into our National Register landmark district. Many of the salient architectural and streetscape features which will be the focus of this tour series are proposed to be impacted by the yet-unfunded Strategy One, Phase Two of the Broadway Streetscape Master Plan. The evolving situation demands public input and public awareness. We hope that you will join us on the tour series to better understand Broadway and become an advocate for its continued preservation, stewardship and vibrancy.
Ep. #105: Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue's Central Library and Caltech Campus
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You Can’t Eat the Sunshine is the podcast of Esotouric, the offbeat Los Angeles company that turns the notion of guided bus tours on its ear. Each week, join Kim Cooper and Richard Schave on their Southern California adventures, as they visit with fascinating characters for wide-ranging interviews that reveal the myths, contradictions, inspirations and passions of the place. There’s never been a city quite like Los Angeles. Tune in if you’d like to find out why.
Join us this week as we talk with Romy Wyllie, co-founder and director of the Caltech Architectural Tour Service (CATS), and with docent Kenon Breazeale of Los Angeles Public Library, about the enduring legacy of the East Coast architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue on both of these institutions. We’ll also discuss concerns about high decibel damage to Broadway’s historic theaters from Mayor Garcetti’s LAOKI dance party, L.A.‘s Sheriff joins a national drive to divert mentally ill offenders from local jails, the bi-annual countywide census shows homelessness up 12%, Norms on La Cienega obtains an historic monument designation and the National Register Case Study House #18 listed for sale as a possible teardown. All this and more as Kim & Richard usher in the week of May 25th, 2015.
The OGs take a literary bus tour
On Saturday, November 8, Barbara and Harry climbed on the Esotouric bus for an adventure into the secret heart of LA. The Birth of Noir took them from Skid Row to Forest Lawn to Hollywood to suburban Glendale on a search for the inspirations that author James Cain drew on while crafting his Californian noir classics Double Indemnity, The Postman Always Rings Twice and Mildred Pierce.
You Can't Eat the Sunshine Episode #101: Renovation & Renewal in Skid Row's Affordable House Stock
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You Can’t Eat the Sunshine is the podcast of Esotouric, the offbeat Los Angeles company that turns the notion of guided bus tours on its ear. Each week, join Kim Cooper and Richard Schave on their Southern California adventures, as they visit with fascinating characters for wide-ranging interviews that reveal the myths, contradictions, inspirations and passions of the place. There’s never been a city quite like Los Angeles. Tune in if you’d like to find out why.
Join us this week as we talk with architect Wade Killefer, partner at Killifer Flammang, about the firm’s recent renovation of the 19th century Pershing Hotel at the corner of 5th and Main. We’ll also visit with Donald Spivack, former Deputy Chief of Policy and Operations for the CRA/Los Angeles, about working with Wade to preserve and maintain the affordable housing stock of Skid Row.
We’ll also discuss a new residential project in the historic Bumiller Building on Broadway, preservation concerns raised by Tom Gilmore’s futuristic art museum proposed to wrap around two historic landmarks at the corner of 4th and Main, Nazarian dropping out as the hotel developer for the Grand Avenue Project, progress on the #SaveTacoBell front and Frank Gerhry tapped to develop the former Garden of Allah site at Sunset and Crescent Heights. All this and more as Kim & Richard usher in the week of March 16th, 2015.
You Can't Eat the Sunshine podcast #103: The Stories She Could Tell: Skid Row 2015 / Go-Go Club 1966
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You Can’t Eat the Sunshine is the podcast of Esotouric, the offbeat Los Angeles company that turns the notion of guided bus tours on its ear. Each week, join Kim Cooper and Richard Schave on their Southern California adventures, as they visit with fascinating characters for wide-ranging interviews that reveal the myths, contradictions, inspirations and passions of the place. There’s never been a city quite like Los Angeles. Tune in if you’d like to find out why.
Join us this week as we talk with Joan Jobe Smith about her new memoir, Tales of an Ancient Go-Go Girl,: and about bikers, bars, Charles Bukowski, and her loving father, Avner. We’ll also visit with filmmaker Alina Skrzeszewska to learn about her about her current project, Game Girls, a documentary about the female experience in Skid Row, a place of tremendous pain and healing, too.
We’ll also discuss the groundswell of support for saving William Pereira’s LACMA campus and other structures, California bill SB 608 aka the Right to Rest Act, the city given the option to purchase the Art Deco Naval & Marine Corps Reserve Center near Dodger Stadium, the pending closure of the Botánica at Third and Broadway, the eviction of the Highland Park’s Swap Mall vendors, Arts District developer seeking to erase 19th century Merrick Street name and Norms on La Cienega moves closer to designation as an historic monument. All this and more as Kim & Richard usher in the week of April 13th, 2015