Frenchtown Confidential

Tales from Los Angeles’ lost French quarter and Southern California’s forgotten French community.

Showing posts with label Calabasas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Calabasas. Show all posts
Monday, August 21, 2017

Excerpts from "Frenchtown! The Musical": Part 1

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I am pleased - thrilled, really - to announce that I will be speaking at LAVA's monthly Sunday Salon on September 24 . It's a free e...
Tuesday, July 18, 2017

We're Still Here, Part 3A: The Leonis Adobe Museum

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In the old part of Calabasas, there is a surviving remnant of LA's Wild West past. I don't mean all the cutesy, faux-Western st...
Saturday, July 1, 2017

The Monster of Calabasas: Michel "Don Miguel" Leonis

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Updated to add: I want our stories told, for better or for worse. That said, a rather unpleasant character has tried to fight me, i...
Wednesday, June 14, 2017

We're Still Here, Part 3: The San Fernando Valley

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Continuing my series on surviving places linked to Southern California's forgotten French community, we come to a place that hits close ...
Monday, August 22, 2016

Wake Up, Sheeple! Part 2: The Sentous Brothers and LA Live

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It's hard to believe that the pocket of downtown containing the LA Convention Center, Staples Center, and LA Live was ever quiet and rur...
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C.C. de Vere
I'm a native Angeleno and my primary ethnicity is French. Searching for my own roots led me to discover a long-ignored French community in my native Southern California. Now I'm telling its stories.
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