Frenchtown Confidential
Tales from Los Angeles’ lost French quarter and Southern California’s forgotten French community.
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Wednesday, May 4, 2022
Open Letter to the Los Angeles Times
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Dear Editors: I am posting this publicly because whenever I contact publications privately regarding factual inaccuracies, they ignore me an...
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Sunday, January 16, 2022
Little Houses on Bernard Street
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Bernard Street is in Chinatown. That is, the short block of Bernard Street that concerns today's entry is in Chinatown. Bisected by the...
Thursday, October 14, 2021
A Very Brief History of French Bakeries in Old Los Angeles
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Once upon a time, a long long time ago by Los Angeles standards, the city was just a tiny pueblo that lacked a proper bakery. You might assu...
Friday, August 7, 2020
The Lost Legacy of André Briswalter
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There was a time when fresh food was rather costly in Los Angeles. The pueblo was hot and dusty, the river periodically burst its banks and ...
Saturday, July 6, 2019
Money, Madness, and Attempted Murder
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One hundred years ago today, Griffith Jenkins Griffith died. Every Angeleno knows Griffith J. Griffith donated Griffith Park to the city o...
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