Frenchtown Confidential
Tales from Los Angeles’ lost French quarter and Southern California’s forgotten French community.
Tuesday, August 13, 2019
Broguiere's May Survive After All
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Beret-tip to Militant Angeleno for this one: Broguiere's is planning to reopen this Friday . Well...we shall see what happens, but at...
Friday, August 2, 2019
How Bernard Street Got Its Name
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About 170 years ago, a young French Swiss man set sail for California by way of Cape Horn - an extremely long journey - hoping to strike it ...
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
The Last One Standing Falls
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Broguiere's Dairy milk bottle Broguiere's Dairy - the very last French-founded dairy in Los Angeles County (if not the last in...
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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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...
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