Monday, June 17, 2019

Get On the Bus! Preservation Tour September 7

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Regular readers may recall that 11 months ago, I received word that Jeanne d'Arc, who had stood guard outside the French Hospital/Pacifi...
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, June 11, 2019

Jean Renoir: The Greatest of All Directors

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Once upon a time in Montmartre, a renowned Impressionist painter married a young dressmaker. They had three sons, all of them creative. Th...
Saturday, May 25, 2019

Forgotten French Dairies of Los Angeles County

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Recently, Broguiere's Dairy in Montebello (founded by a French immigrant in 1920; still family-owned 99 years later) announced plans to ...
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Saturday, May 11, 2019

They Paved Frenchtown and Put Up a Parking Lot

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One of the most frustrating things about digging through Los Angeles history is finding out something with character, charm, historical sig...
Monday, May 6, 2019

Bread, Crackers, and Augustus Ulyard

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On New Year's Eve, 1852, a French American and his English wife arrived in Los Angeles. Augustus Ulyard, born in Philadelphia to Frenc...
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...