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YCES in Quarantine Episode #136: The Larry Edmunds Bookshop & the (Nearly) Lost World of Hollywood Book & Memorabilia Dealers
You Can't Eat the Sunshine
05/08/20 • -1 min
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You Can’t Eat the Sunshine returns with an all-new Quarantine format, inviting folks who are passionate about Los Angeles history and historic preservation to join us for a conversation about the places that matter more than ever, as much of Los Angeles shelters in place under Mayor Eric Garcetti’s “Safer At Home ” directive.
Our special guests on May 8, 2020 are rare book dealer and historian Howard Prouty, Vintage Los Angeles curator Alison Martino and Jeff Mantor, proprietor of the historic Larry Edmunds Bookshop on Hollywood Boulevard.
The episode takes us through Hollywood’s literary and retail history to highlight the importance of the Larry Edmunds Bookshop, which is today the last store standing on what was once a legendary Bookseller’s Row. The shop is the beneficiary of a flood of worldwide goodwill since the recent launch of its GoFundMe campaign.
We begin with Howard Prouty’s reminiscences of his 1970s visits to Hollywood bookstores, as a wide-eyed kid from Nebraska who had already built a relationship with the Larry Edmunds Bookshop as a mail order customer. He hops in the time machine to give us a sense of 1930s Hollywood bookland, populated with legendary characters like Louis Epstein (Pickwick Books), the genial salon host and rotten businessman Stanley Rose, and Rose’s one-time partner Larry Edmunds, plus cameos from celebrated patrons like Nathanael West and Raymond Chandler.
Then check in on Jeff Mantor, proprietor of the Larry Edmunds Bookshop, a Hollywood landmark now in its 82nd year. Jeff shares his personal history with the shop and other lost bookstores on the Boulevard, lets us know how the GoFundMe campaign is going, and shares plans for bringing “The Lare” into the 21st century to create a virtual community where film fans around the world can mingle until the lights come on again, and afterwards.
And we talk with Alison Martino of Vintage Los Angeles about the Larry Edmunds Bookshop’s role as a key location in the recreated urban landscape in Quentin Tarantino’s, “Once Upon A Time in... Hollywood,” some of the other legacy businesses featured in the film that are currently struggling to survive, and memories of being a pre-teen memorabilia collector, sneaking into Hollywood to score rare posters and books from Larry Edmunds, and to the great Westwood shops, too.
Links to learn more about our guests, the episode’s topics, and us:
Jeff Mantor is the proprietor of the Larry Edmunds Bookshop. The store has a GoFundMe campaign, two Instagram accounts (LarryEdmunds1938, the_larebrary and a website. Join Leonard and Jessie Maltin for Cinephile Game Night in support of the bookshop on Saturday, May 9, 2020.
Howard Prouty is a dealer in rare and cool books, trading as ReadInk, Specializing in Unusual, Uncommon and Obscure Books in many (but not all) fields, with particular interest in American Culture [Popular and Unpopular], Art, Literature, Life and People from the 1920s through the 1960s. (ReadInk on Facebook. He has a pretty interesting day job sleuthing and reeling in acquisitions for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences’ Margaret Herrick Library.
Alison Martino manages the Vintage Los Angeles Facebook page, where Angelenos have strong feelings about thedemolition of
YCES in Quarantine Episode #133: Stan’s Donuts & LACMA with Alison Martino, Rob Hollman and Steven Luftman
You Can't Eat the Sunshine
04/17/20 • 50 min
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A note on the audio quality: this episode is a bit tinny, due to the learning curve on setting up multi-guest remote podcasting, and the present difficulty in quickly obtaining alternate mics and mixers. Please be patient with us. We’re working on it!
You Can’t Eat the Sunshine returns with an all-new Quarantine format, inviting folks who are passionate about Los Angeles history and historic preservation to join us for a conversation about the places that matter more than ever, as much of Los Angeles shelters in place under Mayor Eric Garcetti’s “Safer At Home” directive.
Our special guests on April 16, 2020 are Alison Martino (Vintage Los Angeles), Rob Hollman (Save LACMA) and Steven Luftman (Friends of Lytton Savings / Dept. of Urban Secrets), talking about how to be a preservationist while under quarantine, and about the recent loss of two iconic Los Angeles landmarks: Stan’s Donuts in Westwood Village, shuttered forever due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and LACMA’s Bing Theatre, the first of William Pereira’s 1965 buildings to be demolished for museum director Michael Govan’s reckless, unpopular and unfunded redevelopment scheme.
Video interludes:
Visiting with Huell Howser at Stan’s Donuts
“The Death of LACMA’s Bing Theatre” by artist Gary Baseman
Pereira in Peril: LACMA campus tour with Alan Hess & Richard Schave (October 2016)
Save LACMA Board Members Oppose Wilshire Air Rights Gift To LACMA (November 2019)
City Hall Testimony Against LACMA Crossing Wilshire and Barton Phelps critiques Peter Zumthor (December 2019)
Links to learn more about our guests, the episode’s topics, and us:
Alison Martino manages the Vintage Los Angeles Facebook page, where Angelenos have strong feelings about the demolition of LACMA’s Bing Theatre and the loss of Stan’s Donuts. You’ll also find her celebrating historic L.A. landmarks on Spectrum’s weekly SoCal Scene. Her website is AlisonMartino.com
Steven Luftman is a preservationist and community activist. His website is the Dept. of Urban Secrets, with information about campaigns to Save Lytton Savings and to landmark the Mendel & Mabel Meyer Courtyard Apartments, Wallace Beery House and South Genesee Duplexes.
Rob Hollman is President of the California Public Benefit Corporation Save LACMA, and you’ll want to subscribe to receive his spicy newsletter updates.
Esotouric is our historic Los Angeles tour company, presently not operating due to the pandemic. We have a newsletter, a YouTube channel, and can be followed on...
Episode #97: Citrus, Books and Air Rights
You Can't Eat the Sunshine
02/16/15 • 68 min
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.
We’ll also discuss the New York Times’ coverage of residential demolitions in Los Angeles, the reopening of the restored programmatic Idle Hour cafe and support for the National Trust’s involvement in the Southwest Museum crisis. All this and more as Kim & Richard usher in the week of February 16th.
Photo: Sunkist Building, Walker & Eisen. 1935
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Welcoming the National Trust to the Southwest Museum table.
See the restored Idle Hour cafe.
L.A. mansionization on the national stage.
Photos of the Sunkist Building (Walker & Eisen, 1935).
Video of the 1986 Central Library fire.
Monthly Sunday LAVA Salon February 2015
Monthly Sunday LAVA Salon March 2015
LAVA Forensic Science Seminar: Hot Lead and Hot Leads: Forensic Firearm / Gang Communication Analysis
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https://esotouric.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/yces-97.mp3Episode #94: Grand Ave. & Grand Visions
You Can't Eat the Sunshine
01/26/15 • 62 min
Join us this week as we talk with Donald Spivack, former Deputy Chief of Operations and Policy for the Community Redevelopment Agency of Los Angeles, about Bunker Hill’s Grand Avenue and its multiple reinventions over the past four decades. We’ll also visit with Jon Christensen, editor of Boom, a Journal of California, to learn about the motivations that power this most California-centric publication.
We’ll also discuss the destruction of the Royal Viking Motel neon sign, John Buntin debunks gentrification myths, when activists go gonzo, Chris Nichols lists 12 endangered L.A. landmarks, a white knight for the Southwest Museum, Ray Bradbury’s demolished house starts conversations about preservation and public policy and the National Register Rives Mansion in Downey in peril. All this and more as Kim & Richard usher in the week of January 26th, 2015.
Image: Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles Map
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Boom A Journal of California
The Raymond Chandler Map of Los Angeles by Kim Cooper and Paul Rogers.
The Royal Viking, RIP.
Gentrification myths debunked.
When activists go gonzo.
Twelve endangered L.A. buildings to watch.
The Southwest Museum matters.
Loss of Ray Bradbury’s house gets preservationists talking.
Rives Mansion in Downey is in trouble. Video of what was.
Monthly Sunday LAVA Salon February 2015
LAVA Forensic Science Seminar: Hot Lead and Hot Leads: Forensic Firearm / Gang Communication Analysis
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https://esotouric.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/yces-94.mp3Episode #81: The Printed Page & Silver Screen
You Can't Eat the Sunshine
09/08/14 • 71 min
Join us this week as we visit again with Emma Roberts, Rare Books librarian at the Los Angeles Public Library, as part of an ongoing guided tour of some of the gems in her care. We’ll also talk with Richard Adkins, past-President of Hollywood Heritage, about the how a series of owners have preserved and maintained the landmark Grauman’s Chinese Theater.
We’ll also discuss the upcoming reopening of the Hall of Justice, a misguided attempt to obtain a grant to build playgrounds in Pershing Square, the possibility that a downtown streetcar could become a public / private partnership and the greater flexibility of increased DASH bus service. All this and more as Kim & Richard usher in the week of September 8th, 2014.
Closely Watched Trains & URLs for Podcast
Hollywood Heritage website.
LAPL Rare Books Department webpage.
Hall of Justice to reopen on October 8.
Proposal to put playgrounds in Pershing Square.
Interesting comment thread on the uncertainty surrounding the Downtown Streetcar.
September LAVA Sunday Salon
Ernest Batchelder & The Roebling Building, Sunday, Sept. 14th
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https://esotouric.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/yces-81.mp3Episode #77: Legendary Southern Californians: The Orange & Huell Howser
You Can't Eat the Sunshine
08/04/14 • 51 min
Join us this week as we visit with author David Boulé to learn about “The Orange and the Dream of California,” his new book packed with juicy citrus lore. We’ll also talk with Los Angeles City Councilman Tom LaBonge about his dear friend Huell Howser, and Huell’s abiding legacy in the Southland.
We’ll also discuss Metro’s plan for a pedestrian bridge at 2nd and Hope, new ideas for Skid Row, South Park sidewalk closures, the construction crane rises on the site of Blossom Plaza’s destroyed Zanja Madre section, a Charles Bukowski birthday party, homeless camp briefly cleared near site Olvera Street, rediscovered Hollywood street photography circa 1980 and the good news about the UCLA flood. All this and more as Kim & Richard usher in the week of August 4th.
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Metro board approves pedestrian bridge at 2nd and Hope.
New ideas helping for Skid Row’s homeless.
Sidewalk closures in South Park.
Construction crane arrives at Blossom Plaza, where the Zanja Madre was destroyed.
Charles Bukowski’s birthday event.
Downtown homeless camp removed for cleaning.
Hollywood street photography, 1979-83.
Charles Bukowski Birthday Party
August LAVA Sunday Salon
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https://esotouric.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/yces-77.mp3Episode #76: Let There Be…Hollywood!
You Can't Eat the Sunshine
07/28/14 • 61 min
Join us this week as we visit with Richard Adkins, past-President of Hollywood Heritage, for insights into the early years of the legendary Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, home of the first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929. We’ll also talk with April Dammann, about Exhibitionist: Earl Stendahl, Art Dealer as Impresario, her biography of the avant-garde gallerist who counted numerous Golden Age Hollywood players among his clientele.
We’ll also discuss the illegal demolition of Historic Cultural Monument #870 the San Marino Villa in Koreatown, the “Our Skid Row” project seeking input from community residents, the demolition of the exquisite Robinsons-May department store in Beverly Hills and an update on attempts to erect a hillside art sign reading “Glassellland.
All this and more as Kim & Richard usher in the week of July 28th.
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April Dammann’s website and her book Exhibitionist: Earl Stendahl, Art Dealer as Impresario.
Hollywood Heritage website.
Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in vintage photographs.
The illegal demolition of HCM #870 caught on video.
Our Skid Row project website.
Beverly Hills’ exquisite Robinsons-May is no more.
An update on the Glassellland sign.
August LAVA Sunday Salon
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https://esotouric.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/yces-76.mp3Episode #73: 100 Years of “Dealing With” L.A.’s Skid Row
You Can't Eat the Sunshine
07/07/14 • 77 min
Join us this week as we visit with Rev. Andy Bales, CEO of the Union Rescue Mission, for an update on the humanitarian and public policy crisis facing Skid Row. We’ll also talk with Cal State Los Angeles History Professor Mark Wild about Garfield Bromley Oxnam, a Methodist Minister who came to Skid Row nearly a century ago with a vision of empathy for the afflicted and a mission to restore their neighborhood—radical concepts then, and still worth discussing today.
We’ll also discuss Mayor Garcetti’s establishment of a nonprofit to aid city initiatives, plans for the long-derelict Art Deco Gilmore Gas station on Highland to become a drive-through Starbucks, encouraging news for preservation with L.A.‘s new Citywide Historic Context report, redevelopment plans for the Sunkist headquarters in Sherman Oaks, community outcry saves the Sunkist water tower in Ontario and urban archeologists explore the old State Building demolition site. All this and more as Kim & Richard usher in the week of July 7th, 2014
Photo credit: All Nation’s Chapel, 1924 (6th & Gladys), Skid Row today , and G. Bromley Oxnam.
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Union Rescue Mission website. Reverend Andy Bales on Twitter. Our URM history blog.
Mark Wild’s CSULA faculty page, and his book Street Meeting: Multiethnic Neighborhoods in Early Twentieth Century Los Angeles (UC Press, 2005).
L.A. Mayor Garcetti establishes a nonprofit to aid city initiatives.
Derelict Gilmore gas station to become a drive-through Starbucks.
Ken Bernstein explains L.A.’s first-ever citywide historic context survey.
Development plans for former Sunkist HQ parking lots.
Sunkist water tower survives in Ontario.
Old lawsuit backs theory that demolition crew found old L.A. Times foundation. Our newsletter editorial calling for the city to slow down when archeological finds like this one are made.
Booksigning at Vroman’s for Kim’s novel, The Kept Girl this Thursday.
July LAVA Sunday Salon
LAVA event — LAVA Crime Lab: Crash & Spatter.
Upcoming Bus Tours
- Charles Bukowski
- Crawling Down Cahuenga: Tom Waits’ L.A.
- The Real Black Dahlia
- South L.A. Road Trip: Hot Rods, Adobes, Googie & Early Modernism
- Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles
- South L.A. Road Trip: Hot Rods, Adobes, Googie & Early Modernism
- Boyle Heights & The San Gabriel Valley: The Hidden Histories of L.A.’s Melting Pot
- The Lowdown on Downtown
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https://esotou...Episode #42: The Arts District, Then & Now
You Can't Eat the Sunshine
11/04/13 • 80 min
Join us this week as we talk with Carolyn Paxton, proprietor of Urban Radish, about the inspirations behind her new gourmet market in the Arts District. We’ll also visit with curator Terry Ellsworth to get a cross-section of life at the corner of Traction & Hewitt in the late 1980s, when there were more parking spaces than residents, and loft living was reserved for artists who liked things cheap and on the edge.
We’ll also discuss Sierra Madre’s beloved pig spared eviction, the possibility of a Starbucks moving into the landmark Gilmore Gas filling station on Highland, remembering L.A.‘s lost hills and tunnels, architect John Parkinson remembered in his home town of Bolton, England, a petition launched for turning the Historic Figueroa-Riverside Bridge into a park and a momentary snag at the Centennial Commemorative Civic Event and Reenactment at the Los Angeles Aqueduct. Also this and more as Kim & Richard usher in the week of November 4th, 2013.
Photo: Marc Kreisel at Al’s Bar in the early 1980s. Photograph by Anne Knudsen / Herald-Examiner
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Art Share LA, where Terry Ellsworth curates events.
Urban Radish website.
L.A. Arts District Historic Society page on Facebook.
Sierra Madre’s beloved pig spared eviction.
Neil the pig is in the news, again.
A new life for the landmark, derelict Gilmore gas station?
Sleuthing L.A.’s lost topography.
Bolton remembers native son John Parkinson.
Petition in support of the Figueroa-Riverside Bridge as elevated park proposal.
LAVA’s Centennial Commemorative Civic Event and Reenactment at the Los Angeles Aqueduct event page.
LAVA’s November Monthly Sunday Salon
Broadway On My Mind Walking Tour #5, right after Salon.
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YCES in Quarantine Episode #138: Embedded with Kemal Cilengir Documenting the Black Lives Matter Protests in Los Angeles
You Can't Eat the Sunshine
06/06/20 • -1 min
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You Can’t Eat the Sunshine returns with an all-new Quarantine format, inviting folks who are passionate about Los Angeles history and historic preservation to join us for a conversation about the places that matter more than ever, as much of Los Angeles shelters in place under Mayor Eric Garcetti’s "Safer At Home" directive.
Our special guest on June 5th, 2020 is Kemal Cilengir, a street photographer and activist who has spent the past week running on adrenaline and fumes, documenting the Black Lives Matter protests in Los Angeles following the murder of George Floyd.
If you’ve ever wondered what compels a regular Angeleno to charge into the heart of a chaotic and dangerous street protest, camera in hand, then tune in for a bare knuckles trip into the Spring 2020 action, from Downtown Los Angeles to the Fairfax District to Santa Monica–and back again to document the emotionally tough scenes of the morning after.
Kemal loves his native Los Angeles, and has dedicated himself to telling stories that are overlooked by the mainstream media, even as network reporters phone it in from the safety of a helicopter or behind police lines. His Black Lives Matter protest photo essays paint astonishing scenes of strife, hope and courage in the heart of our city.
Weird fact: Kemal was in the same Santa Monica High School class as, and ran track with, Donald Trump’s policy advisor Stephen Miller. It’s probably nature and not nurture, but even his erstwhile classmate Kemal doesn’t know what that guy’s freaking problem is.
Links to learn more about our guests, the episode’s topics, and us:
Kemal Cilengir is the creator of Streetwise L.A., a documentary blog that included a remarkable collaboration with formerly homeless Skid Row journalist Amos (aka Chicago). You can follow Kemal’s work on Instagram and L.A. Taco.
Esotouric is our historic Los Angeles tour company, presently not operating due to the pandemic. We have a newsletter, a YouTube channel, a selection of books and maps celebrating Los Angeles history, and can be followed on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
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Our campaign for transparency around the American Cinematheque’s proposed sale of the Egyptian Theatre to Netflix. Petition update: In a pandemic, as rioters fill the streets, Netflix quietly purchases the Egyptian Theatre. Our Richard Schave is quoted in this Indiewire piece that doesn’t just reprint the corporate press release, but digs deeper into a troubling Hollywood land grab.
Nine years after the low income tenants were evicted and Robert Stacy-Judd’s National Register Aztec Hotel entered a period of anxious uncertainty, Monrovia’s Planning Commission says it can welcome nightly guests. (Aztec discussion begins at 16:50.)
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