Frenchtown Confidential
Tales from Los Angeles’ lost French quarter and Southern California’s forgotten French community.
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Sunday, October 10, 2021
Erasing Frenchtown in Maps
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I have been mapping historic French LA for 8.5 years. It's harder than it looks. Among the many, MANY changes to the street grid, the in...
Friday, June 14, 2019
"About Where Union Station Is Today"
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For years it was assumed that El Aliso - California's first commercial vineyard and winery - had stood on, or at least roughly on, the ...
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
BREAKING NEWS: El Aliso Vineyard was NOT on the site of Union Station!
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Most sources - including older ones - state that Jean-Louis Vignes' vineyard, El Aliso, was "about where Union Station is today.&qu...
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Monday, June 27, 2016
The Incredible Sainsevain Brothers
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(Image courtesy of the California State Archives. View more here .) There were four Sainsevain brothers in all, but two of them - Pierr...
Thursday, June 2, 2016
Jean-Louis Vignes: Father of French Migration to California
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Jean-Louis Vignes (pronounced "vines") was born in Béguey, France (in Bordeaux's wine country) in 1780. In 1827, at the age of...
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