Episode #81: The Printed Page & Silver Screen
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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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
Listen to Episode #81!
https://esotouric.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/yces-81.mp3
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Episode #80: Curating & Hoarding: Preservation in Action
Join us this week as we talk with Ellen Calomiris, Executive Director of the historic Rancho Los Cerritos in Long Beach, about the past three decades of curatorial strategies for preserving and interpreting this time capsule of California’s Rancho days. We’ll also visit with the Los Angeles Public Library’s Map Librarian Glenn Creason, to learn about an astonishing, and nearly lost, hoarder’s treasure that his department recently accessioned.
We’ll also discuss a new campaign to put images from the Los Angeles City Archives online, the pending demolition of the Wham-O / Sriracha plant in San Gabriel, adaptive re-use options for the recently purchased Broadway Trade Center / Hamburger’s Department Store on Broadway and possible freeway cap parks in Downtown, Hollywood and Boyle Heights. All this and more as Kim & Richard usher in the week of September 1st, 2014
Image: Map of the Lizard People below old Fort Moore (now US 101) downtown.
Closely Watched Trains & URLs for Podcast
Photos from the Los Angeles City Archives are now online.
Historic Wham-O/Sriracha factory in San Gabriel not long for this world.
Broadway Trade Center adaptive re-use plans.
Proposal to place a 101 Freeway cap park in Hollywood.
Kim sits on a noir literature panel as part of West Hollywood: Reads.
The Lizard People of Fort Moore, from the LAPL Map Collection.
Rancho Los Cerritos website.
Guide to the map collection of LAPL.
August LAVA Sunday Salon
September LAVA Sunday Salon
Ernest Batchelder & The Roebling Building, Sunday, Sept. 14th
Listen to Episode #80!
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Episode #82: Steaks & Suburbia
Join us as we talk with the irrepressible Myllie Taylor, Boyle Heights native daughter, about her suburban adventures in the newly-formed community of La Mirada in the early 1960s. We’ll also visit with Louis Alvarez, managing partner of the Sycamore Inn in Rancho Cucamonga, a venerable Southland steak house with a nearly 200-year history of hospitality.
We’ll also discuss the upcoming L.A. Historic Neighborhoods Conference, a commercial revamp for the long-vacant upper stories of the Schulte United Building on Broadway, the L.A. Conservancy’s petition to preserve and reuse Parker Center, support from the L.A. Times editorial department for California’s preservation tax break and a report that 20% of new housing in the city over the last fifteen years is Downtown. All this and more as Kim & Richard usher in the week of September 15th, 2014
Closely Watched Trains & URLs for Podcast
L.A. Historic Neighborhoods Conference website.
New life for the Schulte United Building.
Petition to preserve and reuse Parker Center.
“Saving California’s history, sweetened with a tax break” editorial.
Running the numbers on new residential construction.
Sycamore Inn website.
Galleano Winery website.
La Mirada loves Myllie Taylor and so do we.
Listen to Episode #82!
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