Frenchtown Confidential

 If you're on Twitter and aren't following  LAPL's Photos account , you're missing some great pictures of old LA. And you ma...

Recently, we met newspaper editor and civil engineer Félix Violé , whose move to Los Angeles was inspired by the same newspaper he wound up ...

Simon Gless was living on Alameda Street and working as a bartender when his well-to-do uncle, Gaston Oxarat , passed away in 1886. Quiet...

It's high time I introduced my readers to the four French families who owned Rancho Los Encinos - one of my favorite places in Los Angel...

On the northernmost edges of Glendale, just past the Crescenta Highlands neighborhood, intrepid explorers will find Deukmejian Wilderness Pa...

Moving on to the next historic location in the Valley, we find a very special property that many Angelenos don't even know exists.  ...

Continuing my series on surviving places linked to Southern California's forgotten French community, we come to a place that hits close ...