Frenchtown Confidential
Tales from Los Angeles’ lost French quarter and Southern California’s forgotten French community.
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City of Paris
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Tuesday, October 22, 2019
A Vintage Glimpse at the Ville de Paris
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Once upon a time in Forgotten French Los Angeles, the best department store was the Ville de Paris/City of Paris . Founded and owned by a ...
Friday, April 26, 2019
Leon Loeb and the City of Paris
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Leon Loeb was born in Alsace-Lorraine around 1845. After a stint as a bookkeeper in Switzerland, he arrived in Los Angeles in September of 1...
Friday, March 22, 2019
Eugene Meyer: A Nameplate, a Cemetery Plot, and Old LA's Best Department Store
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Eugene Meyer - another cousin of Don Solomon Lazard - was born in Alsace in 1842, and came to Los Angeles at age 21 to work for Lazard's...
Monday, April 9, 2018
The Most Trusted Citizen in 1850s LA was a Jewish Frenchman
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Don Solomon Lazard Imagine, for a moment, that it's the 1850s and you've just arrived in Los Angeles. Los Angeles has only be...
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