Frenchtown Confidential
Tales from Los Angeles’ lost French quarter and Southern California’s forgotten French community.
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Eugene Meyer
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Thursday, July 14, 2022
Bastille Day in Old LA
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On this day in 1789, the French Revolution began. I an pretty open about having a complicated relationship with La Fête Nationale/Bastille D...
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...
Sunday, April 14, 2019
Edgar J. Meyer Died on the Titanic
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I question whether I should include Edgar J. Meyer in this blog, since he was raised in San Francisco and I’ve seen conflicting information ...
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...
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
Raymond Alexandre and the Roundhouse
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Continuing the theme of French sailors who settled in Los Angeles... The Roundhouse, circa 1865. Alexandre's "Roundhous...
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