Frenchtown Confidential
Tales from Los Angeles’ lost French quarter and Southern California’s forgotten French community.
Sunday, June 21, 2020
Ten Highball Glasses and Seven Cafés de Paris
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I was practically raised in antique stores, and I still like to "treasure hunt". Shortly after starting this blog, I found one o...
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Thursday, June 18, 2020
Cerro Gordo Needs Some Help
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Regular readers will know a bit about Cerro Gordo from my entries on Victor Beaudry and Remi Nadeau . The silver lead bullion mined at Cerr...
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 ...
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