Frenchtown Confidential
Tales from Los Angeles’ lost French quarter and Southern California’s forgotten French community.
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Sunday, March 6, 2022
Romaine Grand and the Brick Victorian
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1030 East Cesar Chavez Avenue is tucked away in an odd little pocket of industrial Los Angeles fenced in by the 101, the 10, some rail yards...
Monday, November 8, 2021
BREAKING: Gless Farmhouse At Risk!
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I was shocked and dismayed to hear from my pals at Esotouric that the landmarked 1887 Gless farmhouse just flipped. I had to see it to beli...
Friday, January 3, 2020
The Trials of Simon Gless
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Simon Gless was living on Alameda Street and working as a bartender when his well-to-do uncle, Gaston Oxarat , passed away in 1886. Quiet...
Saturday, June 3, 2017
Deed Restrictions and the Renaming of Frenchtown
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Last weekend, I gave a presentation on the French in Southern California at San Diego Mensa's Regional Gathering in Palm Springs (video ...
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