Southern California lore and historic preservation
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Demolishing the Phillips Hotel, last home of Charles Bukowski's muse Jane Cooney Baker
Gentle reader,
For too many years, we’ve watched the handsome, vacant Phillips Hotel at Beverly and Vermont sink into dereliction and decay, with graffiti, squatters and repeated fires chipping away at the possibility that the modest apart...
Taix French Restaurant Demolition/Salvage: Cultural Heritage Commission hears from angry citizens, is censored by the City Attorney
Gentle reader,
You might find it hard to believe, navigating this mess of a town, but Los Angeles has everything it needs to be a shining example of civic success, right now.
No, really: we mean it.
With a few to-be-expected exceptions,...
Will Hollywood Center Motel be a landmark to demolition by neglect or a real place Angelenos can visit? Plus, a chance for the CHC to fix Mitch O'Farrell's dirty deal to demolish Taix
Gentle reader,
On 2/5/2026, when the Cultural Heritage Commission met for the second and final time to consider declaring the Hollywood Center Motel a protected landmark, members of the nominating non-profit Hollywood Heritage filed into R...
Hollywood Center Motel can still be a real landmark if YOU tell City Hall how to get it right
Gentle reader,
Last March, we sounded the alarm about six demolition permits spotted in front of the Hollywood Center Motel, a decaying collection of residential and commercial buildings that ranged from an Edwardian house called El Nido t...
The Dark Money Bay Area Group Behind the Anti-Eunisses Hernandez Billboards, Mailers and Texts
Gentle reader,
It’s election primary season in Los Angeles, and there are shadowy forces seeking to shape the outcome for reasons we cannot know.
Down in the Westlake District, a block south of MacArthur Park, a stark billboard atop of th...
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Kim Cooper & Richard Schave run a tour company, save landmarks, sleuth out real estate corruption, find lost Raymond Chandler works, dig archives and create community around a shared passion for Southern California cultural history. Join us, do!
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