Episode #77: Legendary Southern Californians: The Orange & Huell Howser

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.

UCLA floods, libraries safe.

Charles Bukowski Birthday Party

August LAVA Sunday Salon

Listen to Episode #77!

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Closely Watched Trains & URLs for Podcast

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.

UCLA floods, libraries safe.

Charles Bukowski Birthday Party

August LAVA Sunday Salon

Listen to Episode #77!

https://esotouric.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/yces-77.mp3

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Episode #76: Let There Be…Hollywood!

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.

Closely Watched Trains & URLs for Podcast

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

Listen to Episode #76!

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Episode #78: Bunker Hill: Past, Present & Future

Join us this week as we talk with Bunker Hill native son Gordon Pattison about his childhood memories of Angels Flight, the neighborhood’s iconic incline railroad. We’ll also talk with Donald Spivack, former Deputy Chief of Operations and Policy for the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency, about the 1970s-era pedestrian bridges on the western slopes of Bunker Hill, which are soon to be rediscovered by a new generation with the completion of the Regional Connector Transit Corridor.

We’ll also discuss the upcoming Marjorie Cameron exhibition at MOCA‘s West Hollywood outpost, the closure of the Archway Theater and Yoga Studio in the old Al’s Bar space in the Arts District, restoration fundraising for the Church of Epiphany in Lincoln Heights, Skid Row policy changes, vandalism and neglect at Barnsdall Park, the unfortunate fake Craftsman makeover of a Googie-style supermarket in Highland Park, still no opening dates for derelict Clark Hotel and Trinity Auditorium properties, and a petition to help the Dutch Chocolate Shop expand its legal capacity. All this and more as Kim & Richard usher in the week of August 11th!