Frenchtown Confidential

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

Showing posts with label Jean-Louis Vignes. Show all posts
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Thursday, May 26, 2022

What's In a Name?

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I finally got a chance to start watching  Bosch: Legacy .*  I highly recommend it, don't get me wrong, but I couldn't help cringing ...
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....
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Tuesday, December 13, 2016

The Warren Buffett of Early LA: Mayor Joseph Mascarel

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Joseph Mascarel, second French mayor of Los Angeles, on a small information kiosk outside the French Hospital. Joseph Mascarel was bo...
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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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