Frenchtown Confidential

Prudent Beaudry was wealthy and successful. But he, personally, didn't spend all that much on himself. He did take a vacation once, in ...

Regular readers may already know that Prudent Beaudry owned a commercial building,  which his brother Victor remodeled into Southern Califor...

Beaudry Street, named for the Beaudry brothers, still exists. Victor Street, named for Victor Beaudry, still exists (although it was bisecte...

I've previously written at length about the Beaudry brothers ' vital roles in developing early downtown LA.  The houses built under ...

A few years ago, after one of my earliest public talks, one attendee asked me why I didn't mention that Prudent Beaudry had named Bunke...

Every Angeleno knows William Mulholland is credited with bringing water to Los Angeles. Few, if any, are aware that for about forty years,...

If you read my first installment of this theatrical theme, you know there isn't *really* a musical about Frenchtown. My short-term obje...

It may seem odd to some of my readers that the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County  would have, let alone display, anything relate...

Last weekend, I gave a presentation on the French in Southern California at San Diego Mensa's Regional Gathering in Palm Springs (video ...

The acknowledged foremost authority on Frenchtown, Helene Demeestre, has called at least one of her Frenchtown lectures "Without a Tra...