Frenchtown Confidential
Tales from Los Angeles’ lost French quarter and Southern California’s forgotten French community.
Monday, May 25, 2020
It's Not Too Late to Save Taix
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Regular readers (and anyone paying attention) know that Taix's longtime home, a French Country-esque building on Sunset Boulevard, is do...
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Wednesday, May 6, 2020
The King of the Castle
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It's no secret that the Pyrenees Castle is up for sale . It's been on the market for so long that the asking price was recently redu...
Saturday, May 2, 2020
The Other Rémi Nadeau
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(Dear readers: the ads are only supposed to appear in the sidebar. I am trying to get that fixed.) When I began researching Old French Los...
Thursday, April 9, 2020
Museum Madness
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By now, you've probably heard that LACMA is actively being torn down. And for what? A Wilshire Boulevard-spanning, obscenely expensiv...
Monday, March 16, 2020
Lessons From the 1863 Smallpox Epidemic
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One of the most important reasons to study history is to learn from the past. You know what they say - those who do not learn from the past ...
Saturday, March 14, 2020
Lost French Los Angeles Tour Going Dark Through April 11
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I love giving my Lost French Los Angeles tour, and I am deeply grateful for the support it's received. However, in light of the COVID-...
Thursday, March 12, 2020
We Need to Talk About Taix
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Sometime around 1870, a family of bakers and sheepherders from the Hautes-Alpes left France, emigrating to Los Angeles. For decades, custo...
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