FIVE PLACES L.A.

This is our third “plus-one” interview. In each episode, we ask our interviewees to name someone whom they in turn would choose to ask about the five places that define Los Angeles for them. Artist Laurie Lipton, our Episode 08 guest, chose art critic Shana Nys Dambrot as her plus one, and this is their wonderful conversation.

Show notes and Shana’s five places:

1. Chateau Marmont (in the 80s and 90s).

2. Self Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine (Palisades).

3. Downtown Library Art (Docent Tours).

4. Getty Villa (and Getty Center).

5. L.A. Flower Mart, and Shana recommends the Poppy and Rose cafe next door.

Honorable Mention: Tales of the American (documentary on the American Hotel).

Related Links / Also Mentioned in this episode:

William Douglas Lee, architect of the Chateau Marmont

Art and Architecture of the Downtown Central Library and Maguire Gardens

Landscape architect Lawrence Halprin and his wife, famed choreographer Anna Halprin

The Mark Taper Forum at the Downtown Central Library

Fountain Design at the Downtown Central Library

Credits:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadoopabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Anali Gharakhani, Quynh Nguyen

Creator and Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

This podcast was recorded on Chumash and Tongva land.

© 2022 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

Lisa ’s five places

1. Adams district and the Golden State Life Insurance Building by Paul R. Williams, who was also featured in Episode 01 with Carolina Miranda.
2. Laurel Canyon and its music history.
3. Venice and the Venice Canals.
4. Baldwin Hills with its scenic overlook and steps and Kenneth Hahn State Park, adjacent to the Crenshaw District and Leimert Park.
5. Downtown LA, with Chinatown, Union Station, The Flower Market, and adjacent Silverlake/Echo Park.

Also Mentioned in this episode

Canter’s Deli on Fairfax

Gorky’s – now closed

Hank’s bar – now closed

Musso and Frank’s – still open!

The Frolic Room – temporarily closed

Books mentioned in this episode:

available through Eso Won bookstore: Instagram @esowonbooks / Email to place orders: [email protected]

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles, by Mike Davis

After/Image: Los Angeles Outside the Frame, by Lynell George

Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the sixties, by Mike Davis and Jon Weiner

Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites during the Jim Crow Era, by Alison Rose Jefferson

Glow in the Dark, by Lisa Teasley

Dive, by Lisa Teasley

Heat Signature, by Lisa Teasley

Related links:

A Place at the Table in Echo Park, Alta Journal, September 29, 2022. Author and artist Lisa Teasley looks at Natalia Molina’s A Place at the Nayarit, through her own experience of Echo Park over the years.

Glossolalia, by Lisa Teasley, Kweli Journal, August 30, 2022.

The Only Black Person in the Room, by Lisa Teasley, Parabola Journal, July 28, 2022.

The Castle in the Trees, August 2020, for the L.A. Forum’s Every.Thing.Changes exhibition.

Credits:

This podcast is produced by a small team of volunteers at the LA Forum. To keep us going and growing, we’d greatly appreciate your support! Please subscribe, rate and review wherever you listen, and share with friends and colleagues. Or, make a donation at www.fiveplaces.la. Thank you for listening.

All images © Lisa Teasley 2022

Opening video © Emmanuelle Bourlier 2022

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadupabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Anali Gharakhani, Quynh Nguyen

Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

Special thanks to: Nina Briggs, Anne Predock

This podcast was recorded on Chumash, Kizh, Tongva and Micqanaqa’n land.

© 2022 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES

www.laforum.org

Interviewees featured in the trailer, in order of appearance:

CAROLINA A. MIRANDA, journalist, LA Times | instagram twitter

FRANCES ANDERTON, journalist, author, radio host | instagram twitter

ANTONIO X. PACHECO, writer, editor, historian | instagram twitter

SOURIS HONG, author, co-founder Creative Cabal | instagram twitter

LIZZIE ARMANTO, professional skateboarder | instagram

NATASHA CASE, founder and CEO, Coolhaus | instagram

LISA TEASLEY, artist, author | instagram twitter

RON ATHEY, performance artist | instagram twitter

J. YOLANDE DANIELS, architect, historian | instagram

JAYNA ZWEIMAN, artist, activist, Pussyhat, Welcome Blanket | instagram twitter

LAUREN DANDRIDGE GAINES, educator, co-founder Chromatic | instagram

CREDITS:

Logo design: still room (www.still-room.com/)

Animated logo: Bee Murphy (@supadupabee on Instagram)

Music: Guido Parisi, www.pond5.com

Produced by: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Production team: Emmanuelle Bourlier, Anali Gharakhani, Quynh Nguyen, Jayna Zweiman

Host: Emmanuelle Bourlier

Special thanks to: Nina Briggs, Anne Predock

This podcast was recorded on Chumash, Kizh, Tongva and Micqanaqa’n land.

© 2022 Los Angeles Forum AUD, and FIVE PLACES L.A.

Lizzie Armanto’s Five Places:

1. The Cove skatepark: Official website / IG page, with announcements about girls sessions
2. Galco’s soda pop stop. If you know about the “atom” drink that was Lizzie’s favorite, please reach out to us!
3. The bridges over the LA river and the tunnels, in particular the 2nd street tunnel where many movies were filmed. Note that this episode was recorded before the 6th street viaduct opened on July 09, 2022. Thenew viaduct was designed by architect Michael Maltzan and engineer Deborah Weintraub to be not only functional and beautiful, but become a public space in its own right. From the Metropolis article: “ When the City of Los Angeles officially opened the new 6th Street Viaduct on July 9, a crowd of Angelenos swarmed the bridge deck, much the way New Yorkers had celebrated John A. Roebling’s Brooklyn Bridge in 1883. It’s rare for a piece of civic infrastructure to get such a welcome. But the original 1932 6th Street Bridge was the most revered of the fourteen historic bridges crossing the Los Angeles River, and the new bridge, called the “Ribbon of Light” by its architect Michael Maltzan, came to embody a feeling of communal pride during the years of waiting for the span to reappear. “
4. The original Farmer’s Market, with its annual Mardi Gras celebration.
5. El Coyote Café, built in 1931.

Other links:

Lizzie on instagram

You may notice a pair of crutches behind Lizzie in the podcast video. Two months before, in October 2020, she had broken her femur during a devastating slam. She kept it quiet during her recovery and spoke about it in an exclusive on the Hawk v. Wolf podcast:Lizzie Armanto on her Devastating Slam, the Path to Recovery, & Overcoming Adversity

Thrasher magazine “cold call” video: “Lizzie’s got a green thumb and a deep bag of moves on her backyard ramp. Check the session with Burman, Ronnie, Axel and Allysha joining the jam.”

We very briefly touched on the complex issue of the unhoused. A few LA-based information and action resources: the Skid Row Housing Trust, which “provides permanent supportive housing so that people who have experienced homelessness, prolonged extreme poverty, poor health, disabilities, mental illness and/or addiction can lead safe, stable lives in wellness.” And The UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy, which “advances radical democracy in an unequal world through research, critical thought, and alliances with social movements and racial justice activism”, and provides research and resources on housing justice.

Skateboarding and Precalculus: An Unlikely Pairing Made Possible by Olympian Lizzie Armanto

Vanguards | Style, Creativity and Skateboarding Their Own Way (VANS): Featuring Vans skateboarders Lizzie Armanto, Yndiara Asp, Mami Tezuka and Brighton Zeuner

Lizzie Armanto is the first female skater to complete Tony Hawk’s 360 loop. More on the loop and the events of that day here.

Dogtown, the birthplace of skating

Rip city skate shop: Santa Monica’s classic skate shop since 1978

Show credits

Videos of Lizzie skating (all videos except our intro video): courtesy of @LizzieArmanto

Special thanks to Brian Adams and Rick Boisdeau for making the Cove skatepark such an amazing place, and for putting u...